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Many problems encountered in science and engineering can be formulated as estimating a low-rank object (e.g., matrices and tensors) from incomplete, and possibly corrupted, linear measurements. Through the lens of matrix and tensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Cong Ma , Xingyu Xu , Tian Tong , Yuejie Chi

We consider the problem of estimation of a low-rank matrix from a limited number of noisy rank-one projections. In particular, we propose two fast, non-convex \emph{proper} algorithms for matrix recovery and support them with rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

This paper considers the problem of recovery of a low-rank matrix in the situation when most of its entries are not observed and a fraction of observed entries are corrupted. The observations are noisy realizations of the sum of a low rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Olga Klopp , Karim Lounici , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

Restricted isometry property (RIP), essentially stating that the linear measurements are approximately norm-preserving, plays a crucial role in studying low-rank matrix recovery problem. However, RIP fails in the robust setting, when a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jianhao Ma , Salar Fattahi

We establish theoretical recovery guarantees of a family of Riemannian optimization algorithms for low rank matrix recovery, which is about recovering an $m\times n$ rank $r$ matrix from $p < mn$ number of linear measurements. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Ke Wei , Jian-Feng Cai , Tony F. Chan , Shingyu Leung

Non-convex gradient descent is a common approach for estimating a low-rank $n\times n$ ground truth matrix from noisy measurements, because it has per-iteration costs as low as $O(n)$ time, and is in theory capable of converging to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Gavin Zhang , Hong-Ming Chiu , Richard Y. Zhang

The low-rank matrix recovery problem seeks to reconstruct an unknown $n_1 \times n_2$ rank-$r$ matrix from $m$ linear measurements, where $m\ll n_1n_2$. This problem has been extensively studied over the past few decades, leading to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Zhenxuan Li , Meng Huang

Low-rank matrix recovery is well-known to exhibit benign nonconvexity under the restricted isometry property (RIP): every second-order critical point is globally optimal, so local methods provably recover the ground truth. Motivated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Richard Y. Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of matrix recovery, which aims to restore a target matrix of authentic samples from grossly corrupted observations. Most of the existing methods, such as the well-known Robust Principal Component Analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Xingyu Xie , Jianlong Wu , Guangcan Liu , Jun Wang

In this paper we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from linear measurements. Our algorithm, which we call Procrustes Flow, starts from an initial estimate obtained by a thresholding scheme followed by gradient descent on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Stephen Tu , Ross Boczar , Max Simchowitz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Benjamin Recht

Many problems in data science can be treated as estimating a low-rank matrix from highly incomplete, sometimes even corrupted, observations. One popular approach is to resort to matrix factorization, where the low-rank matrix factors are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Tian Tong , Cong Ma , Yuejie Chi

We show that the gradient descent algorithm provides an implicit regularization effect in the learning of over-parameterized matrix factorization models and one-hidden-layer neural networks with quadratic activations. Concretely, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Yuanzhi Li , Tengyu Ma , Hongyang Zhang

We consider solving the low rank matrix sensing problem with Factorized Gradient Descend (FGD) method when the true rank is unknown and over-specified, which we refer to as over-parameterized matrix sensing. If the ground truth signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Jiacheng Zhuo , Jeongyeol Kwon , Nhat Ho , Constantine Caramanis

Low rank model arises from a wide range of applications, including machine learning, signal processing, computer algebra, computer vision, and imaging science. Low rank matrix recovery is about reconstructing a low rank matrix from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Jian-Feng Cai , Ke Wei

We consider the problem of recovering a lowrank matrix M from a small number of random linear measurements. A popular and useful example of this problem is matrix completion, in which the measurements reveal the values of a subset of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Emmanuel J. Candes , Yaniv Plan

We study deterministic matrix completion problem, i.e., recovering a low-rank matrix from a few observed entries where the sampling set is chosen as the edge set of a Ramanujan graph. We first investigate projected gradient descent (PGD)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Hang Xu , Song Li , Junhong Lin

Optimization problems with rank constraints arise in many applications, including matrix regression, structured PCA, matrix completion and matrix decomposition problems. An attractive heuristic for solving such problems is to factorize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Yudong Chen , Martin J. Wainwright

High-dimensional matrix regression has been studied in various aspects, such as statistical properties, computational efficiency and application to specific instances including multivariate regression, system identification and matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

Matrix sensing is the problem of reconstructing a low-rank matrix from a few linear measurements. In many applications such as collaborative filtering, the famous Netflix prize problem, and seismic data interpolation, there exists some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Sajad Daei , Arash Amini , Farzan Haddadi

We study nonconvex optimization for phase retrieval and the more general problem of semidefinite low-rank matrix sensing; in particular, we focus on the global nonconvex landscape of overparametrized versions of the nonsmooth amplitude…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Andrew D. McRae