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We investigate linear maps between matrix algebras that remain positive under tensor powers, i.e., under tensoring with $n$ copies of themselves. Completely positive and completely co-positive maps are trivial examples of this kind. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Alexander Müller-Hermes , David Reeb , Michael M. Wolf

Rank-metric codes are subspaces of matrices over finite fields endowed with the rank metric and admit a natural tensorial representation. The tensor rank provides a measure of the minimal size of a decomposition of a code into rank-one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Matteo Bonini , Eimear Byrne , Giuseppe Cotardo

Tensor parameters that are amortized or regularized over large tensor powers, often called "asymptotic" tensor parameters, play a central role in several areas including algebraic complexity theory (constructing fast matrix multiplication…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jop Briët , Matthias Christandl , Itai Leigh , Amir Shpilka , Jeroen Zuiddam

Tensor train (TT) decomposition provides a space-efficient representation for higher-order tensors. Despite its advantage, we face two crucial limitations when we apply the TT decomposition to machine learning problems: the lack of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-03 Masaaki Imaizumi , Takanori Maehara , Kohei Hayashi

For every $p\leq n$ positive integer we obtain the lower bound $(3-\frac{1}{p+1})n^2-\big(2\binom{2p}{p+1}-\binom{2p-2}{p-1}+2\big)n$ for the rank of the $n\times n$ matrix multiplication. This bound improves the previous one…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Alex Massarenti , Emanuele Raviolo

These lecture notes are intended as an introduction to several notions of tensor rank and their connections to the asymptotic complexity of matrix multiplication. The latter is studied with the exponent of matrix multiplication, which will…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Giorgio Ottaviani , Philipp Reichenbach

In this article the notion of the nondecreasing (ND) rank of a matrix or tensor is introduced. A tensor has an ND rank of r if it can be represented as a sum of r outer products of vectors, with each vector satisfying a monotonicity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Andrew McCormack

In problems involving approximation, completion, denoising, dimension reduction, estimation, interpolation, modeling, order reduction, regression, etc, we argue that the near-universal practice of assuming that a function, matrix, or tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Ke Ye , Lek-Heng Lim

We develop a topological framework for proving lower bounds on sign-rank via $\mathbb{Z}_2$-equivariant topology, and use it to resolve the sign-rank of the Gap Hamming Distance problem up to lower-order terms. For every (partial) sign…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Florian Frick , Kaave Hosseini , Aliaksei Vasileuski

Let $n$ and $p$ be non-negative integers with $n \geq p$, and $S$ be a linear subspace of the space of all $n$ by $p$ matrices with entries in a field $\mathbb{K}$. A classical theorem of Flanders states that $S$ contains a matrix with rank…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-07-20 Clément de Seguins Pazzis

Generalizing work of K\"unnemann, Paturi, and Schneider [ICALP 2017], we study a wide class of high-dimensional dynamic programming (DP) problems in which one must find the shortest path between two points in a high-dimensional grid given a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Josh Alman , Ethan Turok , Hantao Yu , Hengzhi Zhang

Tensor network contraction is a powerful computational tool in quantum many-body physics, quantum information and quantum chemistry. The complexity of contracting a tensor network is thought to mainly depend on its entanglement properties,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jiaqing Jiang , Jielun Chen , Norbert Schuch , Dominik Hangleiter

We study low rank matrix and tensor completion and propose novel algorithms that employ adaptive sampling schemes to obtain strong performance guarantees. Our algorithms exploit adaptivity to identify entries that are highly informative for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-12 Akshay Krishnamurthy , Aarti Singh

In [13], Hillar and Lim famously demonstrated that "multilinear (tensor) analogues of many efficiently computable problems in numerical linear algebra are NP-hard". Despite many recent advancements, the state-of-the-art methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Bo Jiang , Fan Yang , Shuzhong Zhang

Motivated by problems in algebraic complexity theory (e.g., matrix multiplication) and extremal combinatorics (e.g., the cap set problem and the sunflower problem), we introduce the geometric rank as a new tool in the study of tensors and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Swastik Kopparty , Guy Moshkovitz , Jeroen Zuiddam

A symmetric tensor is a higher order generalization of a symmetric matrix. In this paper, we study various properties of symmetric tensors in relation to a decomposition into a sum of symmetric outer product of vectors. A rank-1 order-k…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-09-02 Pierre Comon , Gene Golub , Lek-Heng Lim , Bernard Mourrain

Motivated by connections between algebraic complexity lower bounds and tensor decompositions, we investigate Koszul-Young flattenings, which are the main ingredient in recent lower bounds for matrix multiplication. Based on this tool we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Pravesh K. Kothari , Ankur Moitra , Alexander S. Wein

The rank of the matrix multiplication operator for nxn matrices is one of the most studied quantities in algebraic complexity theory. I prove that the rank is at least n^2-o(n^2). More precisely, for any integer p\leq n -1, the rank is at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-31 J. M. Landsberg

We study the tensor-on-tensor regression, where the goal is to connect tensor responses to tensor covariates with a low Tucker rank parameter tensor/matrix without the prior knowledge of its intrinsic rank. We propose the Riemannian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Yuetian Luo , Anru R. Zhang

In many applications such as data compression, imaging or genomic data analysis, it is important to approximate a given tensor by a tensor that is sparsely representable. For matrices, i.e. 2-tensors, such a representation can be obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-29 S. Friedland , V. Mehrmann