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In breakthrough work, Tardos (Oper. Res. '86) gave a proximity based framework for solving linear programming (LP) in time depending only on the constraint matrix in the bit complexity model. In Tardos's framework, one reduces solving the…

Sparse tensor best rank-1 approximation (BR1Approx), which is a sparsity generalization of the dense tensor BR1Approx, and is a higher-order extension of the sparse matrix BR1Approx, is one of the most important problems in sparse tensor…

Higher-order tensors arise frequently in applications such as neuroimaging, recommendation system, social network analysis, and psychological studies. We consider the problem of low-rank tensor estimation from possibly incomplete,…

We provide new high-accuracy randomized algorithms for solving linear systems and regression problems that are well-conditioned except for $k$ large singular values. For solving such $d \times d$ positive definite system our algorithms…

This paper studies a tensor-structured linear regression model with a scalar response variable and tensor-structured predictors, such that the regression parameters form a tensor of order $d$ (i.e., a $d$-fold multiway array) in…

This paper proposes a novel method for learning highly nonlinear, multivariate functions from examples. Our method takes advantage of the property that continuous functions can be approximated by polynomials, which in turn are representable…

This paper lies in the intersection of several fields: number theory, lattice theory, multilinear algebra, and scientific computing. We adapt existing solution algorithms for tensor eigenvalue problems to the tensor-train framework. As an…

We provide a simpler proof of a sharp concentration inequality for subgaussian simple tensors obtained recently by Al-Ghattas, Chen and Sanz-Alonso. Our approach uses a matrix deviation inequality for $\ell^p$ norms and a basic chaining…

In this work, we propose a method for minimizing non-convex functions with Lipschitz continuous $p$th-order derivatives, starting from $p \geq 1$. The method, however, only requires derivative information up to order $(p-1)$, since the…

Data subsampling is one of the most natural methods to approximate a massively large data set by a small representative proxy. In particular, sensitivity sampling received a lot of attention, which samples points proportional to an…

We examine the necessary and sufficient complexity of neural networks to approximate functions from different smoothness spaces under the restriction of encodable network weights. Based on an entropy argument, we start by proving lower…

We consider the problem of low-rank rectangular matrix completion in the regime where the matrix $M$ of size $n\times m$ is ``long", i.e., the aspect ratio $m/n$ diverges to infinity. Such matrices are of particular interest in the study of…

We obtain hardness of approximation results for the $\ell_p$-Shortest Path problem, a variant of the classic Shortest Path problem with vector costs. For every integer $p \in [2,\infty)$, we show a hardness of $\Omega(p(\log n / \log^2\log…

The recent low-rank prior based models solve the tensor completion problem efficiently. However, these models fail to exploit the local patterns of tensors, which compromises the performance of tensor completion. In this paper, we propose a…

This paper studies the low-rank property of the inverse of a class of large-scale structured matrices in the tensor-train (TT) format, which is typically discretized from differential operators. An interesting question that we are concerned…

We consider a novel algorithm, for the completion of partially observed low-rank tensors, as a generalization of matrix completion. The proposed low-rank tensor completion (TC) method builds on the conventional nuclear norm (NN)…

The subspace approximation problem Subspace($k$,$p$) asks for a $k$-dimensional linear subspace that fits a given set of points optimally, where the error for fitting is a generalization of the least squares fit and uses the $\ell_{p}$ norm…

The affine matrix rank minimization (AMRM) problem is to find a matrix of minimum rank that satisfies a given linear system constraint. It has many applications in some important areas such as control, recommender systems, matrix completion…

We prove new barrier results in arithmetic complexity theory, showing severe limitations of natural lifting (aka escalation) techniques. For example, we prove that even optimal rank lower bounds on $k$-tensors cannot yield non-trivial lower…