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We consider a Canonical Polyadic (CP) decomposition approach to low-rank tensor completion (LRTC) by incorporating external pairwise similarity relations through graph Laplacian regularization on the CP factor matrices. The usage of graph…
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Learning a graph with a specific structure is essential for interpretability and identification of the relationships among data. It is well known that structured graph learning from observed samples is an NP-hard combinatorial problem. In…
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This paper addresses theory and applications of $\ell_p$-based Laplacian regularization in semi-supervised learning. The graph $p$-Laplacian for $p>2$ has been proposed recently as a replacement for the standard ($p=2$) graph Laplacian in…