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In this paper, we consider matrix completion from non-uniformly sampled entries including fully observed and partially observed columns. Specifically, we assume that a small number of columns are randomly selected and fully observed, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Yuanyu Wan , Jinfeng Yi , Lijun Zhang

This paper considers the problem of matrix completion when the observed entries are noisy and contain outliers. It begins with introducing a new optimization criterion for which the recovered matrix is defined as its solution. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Raymond K. W. Wong , Thomas C. M. Lee

Model uncertainty quantification involves measuring and evaluating the uncertainty linked to a model's predictions, helping assess their reliability and confidence. Noise injection is a technique used to enhance the robustness of neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-25 Xueqiong Yuan , Jipeng Li , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu

This paper revisits the simple, but empirically salient, problem of inference on a real-valued parameter that is partially identified through upper and lower bounds with asymptotically normal estimators. A simple confidence interval is…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-01-01 Jörg Stoye

To analyze unstructured data (text, images, audio, video), economists typically first extract low-dimensional structured features with a neural network. Neural networks do not make generically unbiased predictions, and biases will propagate…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-20 Jacob Carlson , Melissa Dell

Matrix completion is the study of recovering an underlying matrix from a sparse subset of noisy observations. Traditionally, it is assumed that the entries of the matrix are "missing completely at random" (MCAR), i.e., each entry is…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-10-01 Anish Agarwal , Munther Dahleh , Devavrat Shah , Dennis Shen

Low-rank matrix completion concerns the problem of estimating unobserved entries in a matrix using a sparse set of observed entries. We consider the non-uniform setting where the observed entries are sampled with highly varying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Xumei Xi , Christina Lee Yu , Yudong Chen

In some multivariate problems with missing data, pairs of variables exist that are never observed together. For example, some modern biological tools can produce data of this form. As a result of this structure, the covariance matrix is…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-13 Max Grazier G'Sell , Shai S. Shen-Orr , Robert Tibshirani

In this article, we develop methods for estimating a low rank tensor from noisy observations on a subset of its entries to achieve both statistical and computational efficiencies. There have been a lot of recent interests in this problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-21 Dong Xia , Ming Yuan , Cun-Hui Zhang

This paper is concerned with estimating the column space of an unknown low-rank matrix $\boldsymbol{A}^{\star}\in\mathbb{R}^{d_{1}\times d_{2}}$, given noisy and partial observations of its entries. There is no shortage of scenarios where…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Changxiao Cai , Gen Li , Yuejie Chi , H. Vincent Poor , Yuxin Chen

This article investigates the problem of noisy low-rank matrix completion with a shared factor structure, leveraging the auxiliary information from the missing indicator matrix to enhance prediction accuracy. Despite decades of development…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-08 Yuanhong A , Xinyan Fan , Bingyi Jing , Bo Zhang

Matrix completion is a basic machine learning problem that has wide applications, especially in collaborative filtering and recommender systems. Simple non-convex optimization algorithms are popular and effective in practice. Despite recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Rong Ge , Jason D. Lee , Tengyu Ma

This paper considers the problem of estimating a low-rank matrix from the observation of all or a subset of its entries in the presence of Poisson noise. When we observe all entries, this is a problem of matrix denoising; when we observe…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-22 Andrew D. McRae , Mark A. Davenport

This paper studies low-rank matrix completion in the presence of heavy-tailed and possibly asymmetric noise, where we aim to estimate an underlying low-rank matrix given a set of highly incomplete noisy entries. Though the matrix completion…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Bingyan Wang , Jianqing Fan

Reduced-rank regression recognises the possibility of a rank-deficient matrix of coefficients. We propose a novel Bayesian model for estimating the rank of the coefficient matrix, which obviates the need for post-processing steps and allows…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-14 Maria F. Pintado , Matteo Iacopini , Luca Rossini , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff

High-dimensional matrix regression has been studied in various aspects, such as statistical properties, computational efficiency and application to specific instances including multivariate regression, system identification and matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

The focus in deep learning research has been mostly to push the limits of prediction accuracy. However, this was often achieved at the cost of increased complexity, raising concerns about the interpretability and the reliability of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg , Karl Holmquist , Mikael Persson

We consider sparse matrix estimation where the goal is to estimate an $n\times n$ matrix from noisy observations of a small subset of its entries. We analyze the estimation error of the popularly utilized collaborative filtering algorithm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Christian Borgs , Jennifer Chayes , Devavrat Shah , Christina Lee Yu

Low-rank matrix completion is a widely studied problem with many variants. Inductive matrix completion (IMC) incorporates row and column side information to significantly narrow the search space. Prior work falls into two regimes: methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Yuepeng Yang , Cong Ma

In this letter, we study the deterministic sampling patterns for the completion of low rank matrix, when corrupted with a sparse noise, also known as robust matrix completion. We extend the recent results on the deterministic sampling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Morteza Ashraphijuo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang