English
Related papers

Related papers: Noise Regularizes Over-parameterized Rank One Matr…

200 papers

We consider in this paper the problem of estimating a parameter matrix from observations which are affected by two types of noise components: (i) a sparse noise sequence which, whenever nonzero can have arbitrarily large amplitude (ii) and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Laurent Bako

In this paper we consider the trace regression model. Assume that we observe a small set of entries or linear combinations of entries of an unknown matrix $A_0$ corrupted by noise. We propose a new rank penalized estimator of $A_0$. For…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Olga Klopp

In practical instances of nonconvex matrix factorization, the rank of the true solution $r^{\star}$ is often unknown, so the rank $r$ of the model can be overspecified as $r>r^{\star}$. This over-parameterized regime of matrix factorization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Gavin Zhang , Salar Fattahi , Richard Y. Zhang

In high-dimensional and/or non-parametric regression problems, regularization (or penalization) is used to control model complexity and induce desired structure. Each penalty has a weight parameter that indicates how strongly the structure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-30 Jean Feng , Noah Simon

This paper focuses on recovering an underlying matrix from its noisy partial entries, a problem commonly known as matrix completion. We delve into the investigation of a non-convex regularization, referred to as transformed $L_1$ (TL1),…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Kun Zhao , Jiayi Wang , Yifei Lou

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) exhibits strong algorithmic regularization effects in practice, which has been hypothesized to play an important role in the generalization of modern machine learning approaches. In this work, we seek to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Difan Zou , Jingfeng Wu , Vladimir Braverman , Quanquan Gu , Dean P. Foster , Sham M. Kakade

We consider a structured estimation problem where an observed matrix is assumed to be generated as an $s$-sparse linear combination of $N$ given $n\times n$ positive-semidefinite matrices. Recovering the unknown $N$-dimensional and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Fabian Jaensch , Peter Jung

Gradient descent (GD) is crucial for generalization in machine learning models, as it induces implicit regularization, promoting compact representations. In this work, we examine the role of GD in inducing implicit regularization for tensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Ziye Ma , Javad Lavaei , Somayeh Sojoudi

Efforts to understand the generalization mystery in deep learning have led to the belief that gradient-based optimization induces a form of implicit regularization, a bias towards models of low "complexity." We study the implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Sanjeev Arora , Nadav Cohen , Wei Hu , Yuping Luo

We consider the problem of sparse signal recovery from noisy measurements. Many of frequently used recovery methods rely on some sort of tuning depending on either noise or signal parameters. If no estimates for either of them are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hendrik Bernd Petersen , Peter Jung

This work proposes a general framework for capturing noise-driven transitions in spatially extended non-equilibrium systems and explains the emergence of coherent patterns beyond the instability onset. The framework relies on stochastic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Mickaël D. Chekroun , Honghu Liu , James C. McWilliams

Estimation of low-rank matrices is of significant interest in a range of contemporary applications. In this paper, we introduce a rank-one projection model for low-rank matrix recovery and propose a constrained nuclear norm minimization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-10 T. Tony Cai , Anru Zhang

We introduce a general framework for analyzing learning algorithms based on the notion of self-regularization, which captures implicit complexity control without requiring explicit regularization. This is motivated by previous observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Max Schölpple , Liu Fanghui , Ingo Steinwart

Performance of regularized least-squares estimation in noisy compressed sensing is analyzed in the limit when the dimensions of the measurement matrix grow large. The sensing matrix is considered to be from a class of random ensembles that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Mikko Vehkapera , Yoshiyuki Kabashima , Saikat Chatterjee

Recovering an unknown signal from quadratic measurements has gained popularity due to its wide range of applications, including phase retrieval, fusion frame phase retrieval, and positive operator-valued measures. In this paper, we employ a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jun Fan , Jie Sun , Ailing Yan , Shenglong Zhou

We consider the problem of recovering an unknown effectively $(s_1,s_2)$-sparse low-rank-$R$ matrix $X$ with possibly non-orthogonal rank-$1$ decomposition from incomplete and inaccurate linear measurements of the form $y = \mathcal A (X) +…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Massimo Fornasier , Johannes Maly , Valeriya Naumova

Recent results show that estimates defined by over-parametrized deep neural networks learned by applying gradient descent to a regularized empirical $L_2$ risk are universally consistent and achieve good rates of convergence. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-27 Selina Drews , Michael Kohler

In this work, we study the performance of sub-gradient method (SubGM) on a natural nonconvex and nonsmooth formulation of low-rank matrix recovery with $\ell_1$-loss, where the goal is to recover a low-rank matrix from a limited number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jianhao Ma , Salar Fattahi

We consider stochastic approximation for the least squares regression problem in the non-strongly convex setting. We present the first practical algorithm that achieves the optimal prediction error rates in terms of dependence on the noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Aditya Varre , Nicolas Flammarion

We study the problem of exact support recovery based on noisy observations and present Refined Least Squares (RLS). Given a set of noisy measurement $$ \myvec{y} = \myvec{X}\myvec{\theta}^* + \myvec{\omega},$$ and $\myvec{X} \in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Ofir Lindenbaum , Stefan Steinerberger