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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…
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…
The epsilon alternating least squares ($\epsilon$-ALS) is developed and analyzed for canonical polyadic decomposition (approximation) of a higher-order tensor where one or more of the factor matrices are assumed to be columnwisely…
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…
The CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) tensor decomposition is a popular dimensionality-reduction method for multiway data. Dimensionality reduction is often sought after since many high-dimensional tensors have low intrinsic rank relative to the…
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…
Tensor CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition is an important tool that solves a wide class of machine learning problems. Existing popular approaches recover components one by one, not necessarily in the order of larger components first.…
Candecomp / PARAFAC (CP) decomposition, a generalization of the matrix singular value decomposition to higher-dimensional tensors, is a popular tool for analyzing multidimensional sparse data. On tensors with billions of nonzero entries,…
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…
Collaborative filtering algorithms are important building blocks in many practical recommendation systems. For example, many large-scale data processing environments include collaborative filtering models for which the Alternating Least…
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…
Alternating least squares (ALS) is often considered the workhorse algorithm for computing the rank-R canonical tensor approximation, but for certain problems its convergence can be very slow. The nonlinear conjugate gradient (NCG) method…
Koopman mode decomposition and tensor component analysis (also known as CANDECOMP/PARAFAC or canonical polyadic decomposition) are two popular approaches of decomposing high dimensional data sets into low dimensional modes that capture the…
We discuss the parallelization of algorithms for solving polynomial systems symbolically by way of triangular decomposition. Algorithms for solving polynomial systems combine low-level routines for performing arithmetic operations on…
Tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA) has received a substantial amount of attention in various fields. Most existing methods, normally relying on tensor nuclear norm minimization, need to pay an expensive computational cost…
Canonical Polyadic (or CANDECOMP/PARAFAC, CP) decompositions (CPD) are widely applied to analyze high order tensors. Existing CPD methods use alternating least square (ALS) iterations and hence need to unfold tensors to each of the $N$…
In this work, we present a new approach for the distributed computation of the PARAFAC decomposition of a third-order tensor across a network of collaborating nodes. We are interested in the case where the overall data gathered across the…
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…
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…