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Low-rank approximations are popular methods to reduce the high computational cost of algorithms involving large-scale kernel matrices. The success of low-rank methods hinges on the matrix rank of the kernel matrix, and in practice, these…
Many statistical problems involve the estimation of a $\left(d\times d\right)$ orthogonal matrix $\textbf{Q}$. Such an estimation is often challenging due to the orthonormality constraints on $\textbf{Q}$. To cope with this problem, we…
In this paper we introduce min-plus low rank matrix approximation. By using min and plus rather than plus and times as the basic operations in the matrix multiplication; min-plus low rank matrix approximation is able to detect…
Tensor factorization arises in many machine learning applications, such knowledge base modeling and parameter estimation in latent variable models. However, numerical methods for tensor factorization have not reached the level of maturity…
This paper studies a stylized, yet natural, learning-to-rank problem and points out the critical incorrectness of a widely used nearest neighbor algorithm. We consider a model with $n$ agents (users) $\{x_i\}_{i \in [n]}$ and $m$…
This paper is concerned with the column $\ell_{2,0}$-regularized factorization model of low-rank matrix recovery problems and its computation. The column $\ell_{2,0}$-norm of factor matrices is introduced to promote column sparsity of…
In this paper, we study the general problem of optimizing a convex function $F(L)$ over the set of $p \times p$ matrices, subject to rank constraints on $L$. However, existing first-order methods for solving such problems either are too…
Let $A$ be an $m \times n$ matrix with rank $r$ and spectral decomposition $A = \sum_{i=1}^r \sigma_i u_i v_i^\top,$ where $\sigma_i$ are its singular values, ordered decreasingly, and $u_i, v_i$ are the corresponding left and right…
Efficient task scheduling is paramount in parallel programming on multi-core architectures, where tasks are fundamental computational units. QR factorization is a critical sub-routine in Sequential Least Squares Quadratic Programming…
Matrix factorization is a simple and effective solution to the recommendation problem. It has been extensively employed in the industry and has attracted much attention from the academia. However, it is unclear what the low-dimensional…
Low-rank matrix approximation is a fundamental tool in data analysis for processing large datasets, reducing noise, and finding important signals. In this work, we present a novel truncated LU factorization called Spectrum-Revealing LU…
A central question in random matrix theory is universality. When an emergent phenomena is observed from a large collection of chosen random variables it is natural to ask if this behavior is specific to the chosen random variable or if the…
We propose an algorithm for solving nonlinear convex programs defined in terms of a symmetric positive semidefinite matrix variable $X$. This algorithm rests on the factorization $X=Y Y^T$, where the number of columns of Y fixes the rank of…
In this work, we present randomized compression algorithms for flat rank-structured matrices with shared bases, termed uniform Block Low-Rank (BLR) matrices. Our main contribution is a technique called tagging, which improves upon the…
Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) and its associated non-convex relaxation methods constitute a significant component of matrix completion problems, wherein matrix factorization strategies effectively reduce dimensionality and…
We use techniques from (tracial noncommutative) polynomial optimization to formulate hierarchies of semidefinite programming lower bounds on matrix factorization ranks. In particular, we consider the nonnegative rank, the positive…
We consider whether algorithmic choices in over-parameterized linear matrix factorization introduce implicit regularization. We focus on noiseless matrix sensing over rank-$r$ positive semi-definite (PSD) matrices in $\mathbb{R}^{n \times…
This paper describes a suite of algorithms for constructing low-rank approximations of an input matrix from a random linear image of the matrix, called a sketch. These methods can preserve structural properties of the input matrix, such as…
We investigate how to train kernel approximation methods that generalize well under a memory budget. Building on recent theoretical work, we define a measure of kernel approximation error which we find to be more predictive of the empirical…