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Unsupervised learning aims at the discovery of hidden structure that drives the observations in the real world. It is essential for success in modern machine learning. Latent variable models are versatile in unsupervised learning and have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Furong Huang

Tensors are a natural way to express correlations among many physical variables, but storing tensors in a computer naively requires memory which scales exponentially in the rank of the tensor. This is not optimal, as the required memory is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 Adam S. Jermyn

Tensors, which provide a powerful and flexible model for representing multi-attribute data and multi-way interactions, play an indispensable role in modern data science across various fields in science and engineering. A fundamental task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Tian Tong , Cong Ma , Ashley Prater-Bennette , Erin Tripp , Yuejie Chi

In this paper, we propose three approaches for the estimation of the Tucker decomposition of multi-way arrays (tensors) from partial observations. All approaches are formulated as convex minimization problems. Therefore, the minimum is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Ryota Tomioka , Kohei Hayashi , Hisashi Kashima

Training neural networks is a challenging non-convex optimization problem, and backpropagation or gradient descent can get stuck in spurious local optima. We propose a novel algorithm based on tensor decomposition for guaranteed training of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Majid Janzamin , Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Harri Hakula , Pauliina Ilmonen , Vesa Kaarnioja

The classical hinge-loss support vector machines (SVMs) model is sensitive to outlier observations due to the unboundedness of its loss function. To circumvent this issue, recent studies have focused on non-convex loss functions, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ítalo Santana , Breno Serrano , Maximilian Schiffer , Thibaut Vidal

Tensor networks provide compact and scalable representations of high-dimensional data, enabling efficient computation in fields such as quantum physics, numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), and machine learning. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Julia Wei , Alec Dektor , Chungen Shen , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang

Despite the fact that the loss functions of deep neural networks are highly non-convex, gradient-based optimization algorithms converge to approximately the same performance from many random initial points. One thread of work has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Charles G. Frye , James Simon , Neha S. Wadia , Andrew Ligeralde , Michael R. DeWeese , Kristofer E. Bouchard

In this paper, we investigate the statistical convergence rate of a Bayesian low-rank tensor estimator. Our problem setting is the regression problem where a tensor structure underlying the data is estimated. This problem setting occurs in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-14 Taiji Suzuki

Selection rules are often considered a hallmark of symmetry. When a symmetry is broken, e.g., by an external perturbation, the system exhibits selection rule deviations which are often analyzed by perturbation theory. Here, we employ…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 Matan Even Tzur , Ofer Neufeld , Avner Fleischer , Oren Cohen

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a well-understood mechanism for generating distinct phases of matter. Recently, the notion of symmetry has been broadened to include operations without inverses, leading to the concept of non-invertible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Xie Chen , Shang Liu , Da-chuan Lu , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn

Tensor models play an increasingly prominent role in many fields, notably in machine learning. In several applications, such as community detection, topic modeling and Gaussian mixture learning, one must estimate a low-rank signal from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 José Henrique de Morais Goulart , Romain Couillet , Pierre Comon

In data processing and machine learning, an important challenge is to recover and exploit models that can represent accurately the data. We consider the problem of recovering Gaussian mixture models from datasets. We investigate symmetric…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Rima Khouja , Pierre-Alexandre Mattei , Bernard Mourrain

If supersymmetric particles are discovered, an important problem will be to determine how supersymmetry has been broken. At collider energies, supersymmetry breaking can be parameterised by soft supersymmetry breaking parameters. Several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-07 Jamil Hetzel

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of a symmetric loss. First, we emphasize that using a symmetric loss is advantageous in the balanced error rate (BER) minimization and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-10 Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Jongyeong Lee , Masashi Sugiyama

Tensor rank and low-rank tensor decompositions have many applications in learning and complexity theory. Most known algorithms use unfoldings of tensors and can only handle rank up to $n^{\lfloor p/2 \rfloor}$ for a $p$-th order tensor in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Rong Ge , Tengyu Ma

While optimizing convex objective (loss) functions has been a powerhouse for machine learning for at least two decades, non-convex loss functions have attracted fast growing interests recently, due to many desirable properties such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Chao Qu , Yan Li , Huan Xu

Modeling symmetry breaking is essential for understanding the fundamental changes in the behaviors and properties of physical systems, from microscopic particle interactions to macroscopic phenomena like fluid dynamics and cosmic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Rui Wang , Elyssa Hofgard , Han Gao , Robin Walters , Tess E. Smidt

The issue of symmetry and symmetry breaking is fundamental in all areas of science. Symmetry is often assimilated to order and beauty while symmetry breaking is the source of many interesting phenomena such as phase transitions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Michael Loss , Maria Esteban