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A matrix completion problem is to recover the missing entries in a partially observed matrix. Most of the existing matrix completion methods assume a low rank structure of the underlying complete matrix. In this paper, we introduce an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-16 Chencheng Cai , Rong Chen , Han Xiao

In this paper, we address two minimal controllability problems, where the goal is to determine a minimal subset of state variables in a linear time-invariant system to be actuated to ensure controllability under additional constraints.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Sergio Pequito , Guilherme Ramos , Soummya Kar , A. Pedro Aguiar , Jaime Ramos

We solve the problem of characterizing the existence of a polynomial matrix of fixed degree when its eigenstructure (or part of it) and some of its rows (columns) are prescribed. More specifically, we present a solution to the row (column)…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-02-07 A. Amparan , I. Baragaña , S. Marcaida , A. Roca

A positive definite matrix is called logarithmically sparse if its matrix logarithm has many zero entries. Such matrices play a significant role in high-dimensional statistics and semidefinite optimization. In this paper, logarithmically…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Dmitrii Pavlov

Matrix completion is a problem that arises in many data-analysis settings where the input consists of a partially-observed matrix (e.g., recommender systems, traffic matrix analysis etc.). Classical approaches to matrix completion assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Natali Ruchansky , Mark Crovella , Evimaria Terzi

The problem of finding the unique low dimensional decomposition of a given matrix has been a fundamental and recurrent problem in many areas. In this paper, we study the problem of seeking a unique decomposition of a low rank matrix $Y\in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Dian Jin , Xin Bing , Yuqian Zhang

In this paper we consider the low-rank matrix completion problem with specific application to forecasting in time series analysis. Briefly, the low-rank matrix completion problem is the problem of imputing missing values of a matrix under a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-23 Jonathan Gillard , Konstantin Usevich

Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a linear combination of the input variables while constraining the number of nonzero coefficients in this combination. This is known as sparse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach , Laurent El Ghaoui

We describe several algorithms for matrix completion and matrix approximation when only some of its entries are known. The approximation constraint can be any whose approximated solution is known for the full matrix. For low rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Gil Shabat , Yaniv Shmueli , Amir Averbuch

We investigate the rank of random (symmetric) sparse matrices. Our main finding is that with high probability, any dependency that occurs in such a matrix is formed by a set of few rows that contains an overwhelming number of zeros. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Kevin P. Costello , Van Vu

We consider the problem of sparse atomic optimization, where the notion of "sparsity" is generalized to meaning some linear combination of few atoms. The definition of atomic set is very broad; popular examples include the standard basis,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Thomas Zhang

We identify a new sufficient condition for the finite convergence of moment relaxations of polynomial optimization problems with correlative sparsity. This condition, which follows from a solution to a correlatively sparse version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Giovanni Fantuzzi , Federico Fuentes

Many combinatorial optimisation problems can be modelled as valued constraint satisfaction problems. In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm solving the valued constraint satisfaction problem for a fixed number of variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Manuel Bodirsky , Marcello Mamino , Caterina Viola

A polynomial matrix inequality is a formula asserting that a polynomial matrix is positive semidefinite. Polynomial matrix optimization concerns minimizing the smallest eigenvalue of a symmetric polynomial matrix subject to a tuple of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Jared Miller , Jie Wang , Feng Guo

The problem of low-rank matrix completion with heterogeneous and sub-exponential (as opposed to homogeneous and Gaussian) noise is particularly relevant to a number of applications in modern commerce. Examples include panel sales data and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-26 Vivek F. Farias , Andrew A. Li , Tianyi Peng

This paper considers the problem of estimating a low-rank matrix from the observation of all or a subset of its entries in the presence of Poisson noise. When we observe all entries, this is a problem of matrix denoising; when we observe…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-22 Andrew D. McRae , Mark A. Davenport

Dempster's covariance selection method is extended first to general nonsingular matrices and then to full rank rectangular matrices. Dempster observed that his completion solved a maximum entropy problem. We show that our generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Augusto Ferrante , Michele Pavon

We study the row completion problem of polynomial and rational matrices with partial prescription of the structural data. The prescription of the complete structural data has been solved in Amparan et al., Lin. Alg. Appl. 720 (2025)…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Agurtzane Amparan , Itziar Baragaña , Silvia Marcaida , Alicia Roca

Extensions of Kemeny's constant, as derived for irreducible finite Markov chains in discrete time, to Markov renewal processes and Markov chains in continuous time are discussed. Three alternative Kemeny's functions and their variants are…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Jeffrey J Hunter

It is shown by Karp reduction that deciding the singularity of $(2^n - 1) \times (2^n - 1)$ sparse circulant matrices (SC problem) is NP-complete. We can write them only implicitly, by indicating values of the $2 + n(n + 1)/2$ eventually…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-16 Ilia Toli