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Let $A$ be an $m \times n$ matrix with rank $r$ and spectral decomposition $A = \sum_{i=1}^r \sigma_i u_i v_i^\top,$ where $\sigma_i$ are its singular values, ordered decreasingly, and $u_i, v_i$ are the corresponding left and right…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Phuc Tran , Van Vu

Matrix completion, i.e., the exact and provable recovery of a low-rank matrix from a small subset of its elements, is currently only known to be possible if the matrix satisfies a restrictive structural constraint---known as {\em…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-22 Yudong Chen , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Sujay Sanghavi , Rachel Ward

We give a new framework for solving the fundamental problem of low-rank matrix completion, i.e., approximating a rank-$r$ matrix $\mathbf{M} \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ (where $m \ge n$) from random observations. First, we provide an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jonathan A. Kelner , Jerry Li , Allen Liu , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

We study the problem of learning a partially observed matrix under the low rank assumption in the presence of fully observed side information that depends linearly on the true underlying matrix. This problem consists of an important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Dimitris Bertsimas , Nicholas A. G. Johnson

The log-rank conjecture is a longstanding open problem with multiple equivalent formulations in complexity theory and mathematics. In its linear-algebraic form, it asserts that the rank and partitioning number of a Boolean matrix are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Lianna Hambardzumyan , Shachar Lovett , Morgan Shirley

The communication class $\mathbf{UPP}^{\text{cc}}$ is a communication analog of the Turing Machine complexity class $\mathbf{PP}$. It is characterized by a matrix-analytic complexity measure called sign-rank (also called dimension…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Mark Bun , Nikhil S. Mande , Justin Thaler

We construct simple, explicit matrices with columns having unit $\ell^2$ norm and discrepancy approaching $1 + \sqrt{2} \approx 2.414$. This number gives a lower bound, the strongest known as far as we are aware, on the constant appearing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Dmitriy Kunisky

We use a variety of computational tools to obtain a degree-$\binom{m + n - 2}{m - 1}$ polynomial equation conjecturally satisfied by the top-left entry of the Sinkhorn limit of a positive $m \times n$ matrix. The degree of this equation has…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Eric Rowland , Jason Wu

We consider the problem of noisy 1-bit matrix completion under an exact rank constraint on the true underlying matrix $M^*$. Instead of observing a subset of the noisy continuous-valued entries of a matrix $M^*$, we observe a subset of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-25 Sonia Bhaskar , Adel Javanmard

The rank of partitions play an important role in the combinatorial interpretations of several Ramanujan's famous congruence formulas. In 2005 and 2008, the $D$-rank and $M_2$-rank of an overpartition were introduced by Lovejoy,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Huan Xiong , Wenston J. T. Zang

We study the $\ell_0$-Low Rank Approximation Problem, where the goal is, given an $m \times n$ matrix $A$, to output a rank-$k$ matrix $A'$ for which $\|A'-A\|_0$ is minimized. Here, for a matrix $B$, $\|B\|_0$ denotes the number of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Karl Bringmann , Pavel Kolev , David P. Woodruff

In the online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, $m$ requests in a metric space are submitted at different times by an adversary. The goal is to match all requests while (i) minimizing the sum of the distances between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Marc Dufay , Roger Wattenhofer

We prove lower bounds on complexity measures, such as the approximate degree of a Boolean function and the approximate rank of a Boolean matrix, using quantum arguments. We prove these lower bounds using a quantum query algorithm for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Shalev Ben-David , Adam Bouland , Ankit Garg , Robin Kothari

For any matrix A in R^(m x n) of rank \rho, we present a probability distribution over the entries of A (the element-wise leverage scores of equation (2)) that reveals the most influential entries in the matrix. From a theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Abhisek Kundu , Srinivas Nambirajan , Petros Drineas

Let $M$ be a random $m \times n$ matrix with binary entries and i.i.d. rows. The weight (i.e., number of ones) of a row has a specified probability distribution, with the row chosen uniformly at random given its weight. Let $N(n,m)$ denote…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-30 R. W. R. Darling , Mathew D. Penrose , Andrew R. Wade , Sandy L. Zabell

Motivated by the Matrix Spencer conjecture, we study the problem of finding signed sums of matrices with a small matrix norm. A well-known strategy to obtain these signs is to prove, given matrices $A_1, \dots, A_n \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Daniel Dadush , Haotian Jiang , Victor Reis

A distance matrix $A \in \mathbb R^{n \times m}$ represents all pairwise distances, $A_{ij}=\mathrm{d}(x_i,y_j)$, between two point sets $x_1,...,x_n$ and $y_1,...,y_m$ in an arbitrary metric space $(\mathcal Z, \mathrm{d})$. Such matrices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Piotr Indyk , Ali Vakilian , Tal Wagner , David Woodruff

We consider the problem of computing the rank of an m x n matrix A over a field. We present a randomized algorithm to find a set of r = rank(A) linearly independent columns in \~O(|A| + r^\omega) field operations, where |A| denotes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ho Yee Cheung , Tsz Chiu Kwok , Lap Chi Lau

Matrix Completion is the problem of recovering an unknown real-valued low-rank matrix from a subsample of its entries. Important recent results show that the problem can be solved efficiently under the assumption that the unknown matrix is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Moritz Hardt , Raghu Meka , Prasad Raghavendra , Benjamin Weitz

We develop a notion of {\em inner rank} as a tool for obtaining lower bounds on the rank of matrix multiplication tensors. We use it to give a short proof that the border rank (and therefore rank) of the tensor associated with $n\times n$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Joel Friedman