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Nearest neighbor (NN) algorithms have been extensively used for missing data problems in recommender systems and sequential decision-making systems. Prior theoretical analysis has established favorable guarantees for NN when the underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Tathagata Sadhukhan , Manit Paul , Raaz Dwivedi

We consider the setup of nonparametric {\em blind regression} for estimating the entries of a large $m \times n$ matrix, when provided with a small, random fraction of noisy measurements. We assume that all rows $u \in [m]$ and columns $i…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Yihua Li , Devavrat Shah , Dogyoon Song , Christina Lee Yu

Matrix completion is often applied to data with entries missing not at random (MNAR). For example, consider a recommendation system where users tend to only reveal ratings for items they like. In this case, a matrix completion method that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-30 Wei Ma , George H. Chen

Matrix completion is the study of recovering an underlying matrix from a sparse subset of noisy observations. Traditionally, it is assumed that the entries of the matrix are "missing completely at random" (MCAR), i.e., each entry is…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-10-01 Anish Agarwal , Munther Dahleh , Devavrat Shah , Dennis Shen

This paper examines a general class of noisy matrix completion tasks where the goal is to estimate a matrix from observations obtained at a subset of its entries, each of which is subject to random noise or corruption. Our specific focus is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-18 Akshay Soni , Swayambhoo Jain , Jarvis Haupt , Stefano Gonella

Synthetic Nearest Neighbors (SNN) provides a principled solution to causal matrix completion under missing-not-at-random (MNAR) by exploiting local low-rank structure through fully observed anchor submatrices. However, its effectiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Minrui Luo , Zhiheng Zhang

In this technical note, we introduce and analyze AWNN: an adaptively weighted nearest neighbor method for performing matrix completion. Nearest neighbor (NN) methods are widely used in missing data problems across multiple disciplines such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 Tathagata Sadhukhan , Manit Paul , Raaz Dwivedi

Matrix completion is a ubiquitous tool in machine learning and data analysis. Most work in this area has focused on the number of observations necessary to obtain an accurate low-rank approximation. In practice, however, the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Dong Hu , Alex Gittens , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Matrix completion is a classical problem that has received recurring interest across a wide range of fields. In this paper, we revisit this problem in an ultra-sparse sampling regime, where each entry of an unknown, $n\times d$ matrix $M$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hongyang R. Zhang , Zhenshuo Zhang , Huy L. Nguyen , Guanghui Lan

Matrix completion has received vast amount of attention and research due to its wide applications in various study fields. Existing methods of matrix completion consider only nonlinear (or linear) relations among entries in a data matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Saeid Mehrdad , Mohammad Hossein Kahaei

A matrix completion problem, which aims to recover a complete matrix from its partial observations, is one of the important problems in the machine learning field and has been studied actively. However, there is a discrepancy between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-14 Masayoshi Hayashi , Tomoya Sakai , Masashi Sugiyama

Bayesian approaches for learning deep neural networks (BNN) have been received much attention and successfully applied to various applications. Particularly, BNNs have the merit of having better generalization ability as well as better…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-25 Insung Kong , Dongyoon Yang , Jongjin Lee , Ilsang Ohn , Gyuseung Baek , Yongdai Kim

Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbour (NBNN) is a simple and effective framework which addresses many of the pitfalls of K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) classification. It has yielded competitive results on several computer vision benchmarks. Its central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Graham W. Taylor

We propose using recognition networks for approximate inference inBayesian networks (BNs). A recognition network is a multilayerperception (MLP) trained to predict posterior marginals given observedevidence in a particular BN. The input to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Quaid Morris

The need to predict or fill-in missing data, often referred to as matrix completion, is a common challenge in today's data-driven world. Previous strategies typically assume that no structural difference between observed and missing entries…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

Matrix completion tackles the task of predicting missing values in a low-rank matrix based on a sparse set of observed entries. It is often assumed that the observation pattern is generated uniformly at random or has a very specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-18 Yudong Chen , Xumei Xi , Christina Lee Yu

Boolean matrix factorization and Boolean matrix completion from noisy observations are desirable unsupervised data-analysis methods due to their interpretability, but hard to perform due to their NP-hardness. We treat these problems as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Barnabas Poczos , Russell Greiner

Matrix completion focuses on recovering missing or incomplete information in matrices. This problem arises in various applications, including image processing and network analysis. Previous research proposed Poisson matrix completion for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yu Lu , Kevin Bui , Roummel F. Marcia

Matrix completion is a class of machine learning methods that concerns the prediction of missing entries in a partially observed matrix. This paper studies matrix completion for mixed data, i.e., data involving mixed types of variables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-18 Yunxiao Chen , Xiaoou Li

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
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