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The popular Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm for tensor decomposition is efficient and easy to implement, but often converges to poor local optima---particularly when the weights of the factors are non-uniform. We propose a…
The approximation of tensors has important applications in various disciplines, but it remains an extremely challenging task. It is well known that tensors of higher order can fail to have best low-rank approximations, but with an important…
The alternating least squares (ALS/AltLS) method is a widely used algorithm for computing the CP decomposition of a tensor. However, its convergence theory is still incompletely understood. In this paper, we prove explicit quantitative…
Canonical Polyadic (CP) tensor decomposition is a fundamental technique for analyzing high-dimensional tensor data. While the Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm is widely used for computing CP decomposition due to its simplicity and…
Tensor ring (TR) decomposition has been widely applied as an effective approach in a variety of applications to discover the hidden low-rank patterns in multidimensional data. A well-known method for TR decomposition is the alternating…
The low multilinear rank approximation, also known as the truncated Tucker decomposition, has been extensively utilized in many applications that involve higher-order tensors. Popular methods for low multilinear rank approximation usually…
This paper introduces a randomized variation of the alternating least squares (ALS) algorithm for rank reduction of canonical tensor formats. The aim is to address the potential numerical ill-conditioning of least squares matrices at each…
We consider the problem of reconstructing rank-one matrices from random linear measurements, a task that appears in a variety of problems in signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. In this paper, we focus on the Alternating…
Stochastic Alternating Least Squares (SALS) is a method that approximates the canonical decomposition of averages of sampled random tensors. Its simplicity and efficient memory usage make SALS an ideal tool for decomposing tensors in an…
Low-rank Tucker and CP tensor decompositions are powerful tools in data analytics. The widely used alternating least squares (ALS) method, which solves a sequence of over-determined least squares subproblems, is costly for large and sparse…
We study the convergence of the Regularized Alternating Least-Squares algorithm for tensor decompositions. As a main result, we have shown that given the existence of critical points of the Alternating Least-Squares method, the limit points…
In this paper, we propose a novel element-wise subset selection method for the alternating least squares (ALS) algorithm, focusing on low-rank matrix factorization involving matrices with missing values, as commonly encountered in…
In this paper, we discuss the acceleration of the regularized alternating least square (RALS) algorithm for tensor approximation. We propose a fast iterative method using a Aitken-Stefensen like updates for the regularized algorithm.…
For reconstruction of low-rank matrices from undersampled measurements, we develop an iterative algorithm based on least-squares estimation. While the algorithm can be used for any low-rank matrix, it is also capable of exploiting a-priori…
In applications, a substantial number of problems can be formulated as non-linear least squares problems over smooth varieties. Unlike the usual least squares problem over a Euclidean space, the non-linear least squares problem over a…
Recent papers have developed alternating least squares (ALS) methods for CP and tensor ring decomposition with a per-iteration cost which is sublinear in the number of input tensor entries for low-rank decomposition. However, the…
We show how to develop sampling-based alternating least squares (ALS) algorithms for decomposition of tensors into any tensor network (TN) format. Provided the TN format satisfies certain mild assumptions, resulting algorithms will have…
This paper presents a multigrid algorithm for the computation of the rank-R canonical decomposition of a tensor for low rank R. Standard alternating least squares (ALS) is used as the relaxation method. Transfer operators and coarse-level…
CP decomposition (CPD) is prevalent in chemometrics, signal processing, data mining and many more fields. While many algorithms have been proposed to compute the CPD, alternating least squares (ALS) remains one of the most widely used…
Tensor train decomposition is one of the most powerful approaches for processing high-dimensional data. For low-rank tensor train decomposition of large tensors, the alternating least squares (ALS) algorithm is widely used by updating each…