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In this paper, we develop a nonconvex approach to the problem of low-rank and sparse matrix decomposition. In our nonconvex method, we replace the rank function and the $l_{0}$-norm of a given matrix with a non-convex fraction function on…

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Low-rank matrix approximation (LRMA) has been arisen in many applications, such as dynamic MRI, recommendation system and so on. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been designed for the nuclear norm regularized least…

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