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Low-rank modeling has many important applications in computer vision and machine learning. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has demonstrated better empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Taifeng Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

The approximate solution of large-scale algebraic Riccati equations is considered. We are interested in approximate solutions which yield a Riccati residual matrix of a particular small rank. It is assumed that such approximate solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Christian Bertram , Heike Faßbender

In [Steinerberger, Q. Appl. Math., 79:3, 419-429, 2021] and [Shao, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 44(1), 212-239, 2023], two new types of Kaczmarz algorithms, which share some similarities, for consistent linear systems were proposed. These two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Changpeng Shao

We consider the problem of robust matrix completion, which aims to recover a low rank matrix $L_*$ and a sparse matrix $S_*$ from incomplete observations of their sum $M=L_*+S_*\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$. Algorithmically, the robust matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-25 Yunfeng Cai , Ping Li

The matrix low-rank approximation problem with additional convex constraints can find many applications and has been extensively studied before. However, this problem is shown to be nonconvex and NP-hard; most of the existing solutions are…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Ying Zhang

The matrix completion problem consists of finding or approximating a low-rank matrix based on a few samples of this matrix. We propose a new algorithm for matrix completion that minimizes the least-square distance on the sampling set over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Bart Vandereycken

We introduce a "learning-based" algorithm for the low-rank decomposition problem: given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$, and a parameter $k$, compute a rank-$k$ matrix $A'$ that minimizes the approximation loss $\|A-A'\|_F$. The algorithm uses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Piotr Indyk , Ali Vakilian , Yang Yuan

Least squares estimation, a regression technique based on minimisation of residuals, has been invaluable in bringing the best fit solutions to parameters in science and engineering. However, in dynamic environments such as in Geomatics…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-04-17 C. P. E. Agbachi

Standard regularization methods that are used to compute solutions to ill-posed inverse problems require knowledge of the forward model. In many real-life applications, the forward model is not known, but training data is readily available.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

The problem of approximating a matrix by a low-rank one has been extensively studied. This problem assumes, however, that the whole matrix has a low-rank structure. This assumption is often false for real-world matrices. We consider the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Martino Ciaperoni , Aristides Gionis , Heikki Mannila

We consider the problem of solving linear least squares problems in a framework where only evaluations of the linear map are possible. We derive randomized methods that do not need any other matrix operations than forward evaluations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Dirk A. Lorenz , Felix Schneppe , Lionel Tondji

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…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-12 Dunyao Xue , Mengyu Li , Cheng Meng , Jingyi Zhang

We address the inverse problem that arises in compressed sensing of a low-rank matrix. Our approach is to pose the inverse problem as an approximation problem with a specified target rank of the solution. A simple search over the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-15 Kiryung Lee , Yoram Bresler

We present a generalized formulation for reweighted least squares approximations. The goal of this article is twofold: firstly, to prove that the solution of such problem can be expressed as a convex combination of certain interpolants when…

In computational practice, most attention is paid to rational approximations of functions and approximations by the sum of exponents. We consider a wide enough class of nonlinear approximations characterized by a set of two required…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Petr N. Vabishchevich

Recent development on mixed precision techniques has largely enhanced the performance of various linear algebra solvers, one of which being the solver for the least squares problem $\min_{x}\lVert b-Ax\rVert_{2}$. By transforming least…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Bowen Gao , Yuxin Ma , Meiyue Shao

Positive semi-definite matrices commonly occur as normal matrices of least squares problems in statistics or as kernel matrices in machine learning and approximation theory. They are typically large and dense. Thus algorithms to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Markus Hegland , Frank deHoog

We propose and analyze random subspace variants of the second-order Adaptive Regularization using Cubics (ARC) algorithm. These methods iteratively restrict the search space to some random subspace of the parameters, constructing and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Coralia Cartis , Zhen Shao , Edward Tansley

We present an analysis of sets of matrices with rank less than or equal to a specified number $s$. We provide a simple formula for the normal cone to such sets, and use this to show that these sets are prox-regular at all points with rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 D. Russell Luke

Rational minimax approximation of real functions on real intervals is an established topic, but when it comes to complex functions or domains, there appear to be no algorithms currently in use. Such a method is introduced here, the {\em…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Lloyd N. Trefethen