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Low rank matrix factorization is a fundamental building block in machine learning, used for instance to summarize gene expression profile data or word-document counts. To be robust to outliers and differences in scale across features, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Marco Cuturi , Olivier Teboul , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Jean-Philippe Vert

We consider whether algorithmic choices in over-parameterized linear matrix factorization introduce implicit regularization. We focus on noiseless matrix sensing over rank-$r$ positive semi-definite (PSD) matrices in $\mathbb{R}^{n \times…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-16 Kelly Geyer , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Amir Kalev

Given an input matrix polynomial whose coefficients are floating point numbers, we consider the problem of finding the nearest matrix polynomial which has rank at most a specified value. This generalizes the problem of finding a nearest…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Mark Giesbrecht , Joseph Haraldson , George Labahn

Recommendation systems often rely on point-wise loss metrics such as the mean squared error. However, in real recommendation settings only few items are presented to a user. This observation has recently encouraged the use of rank-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Phong Nguyen , Jun Wang , Alexandros Kalousis

The classic rank-revealing QR factorization factorizes a matrix $A$ as $AP=QR$ where $P$ permutes the columns of $A$, $Q$ is an orthogonal matrix, and $R$ is upper triangular with non-increasing diagonal entries. This is called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Reid Atcheson

Differentiable systems in this paper means systems of equations that are described by differentiable real functions in real matrix variables. This paper proposes algorithms for finding minimal rank solutions to such systems over (arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Thanh Hieu Le

Block full rank pencils introduced in [Dopico et al., Local linearizations of rational matrices with application to rational approximations of nonlinear eigenvalue problems, Linear Algebra Appl., 2020] allow us to obtain local information…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Froilán M. Dopico , Silvia Marcaida , María C. Quintana , Paul Van Dooren

It is known that the common factors in a large panel of data can be consistently estimated by the method of principal components, and principal components can be constructed by iterative least squares regressions. Replacing least squares…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-16 Jushan Bai , Serena Ng

This paper investigates atomic factorizations in the monoid $\mathcal I(R)$ of nonzero ideals of a multivariate polynomial ring $R$, under ideal multiplication. Building on recent advances in factorization theory for unit-cancellative…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Nikola Bogdanovic , Laura Cossu , Azeem Khadam

Matrices are exceptionally useful in various fields of study as they provide a convenient framework to organize and manipulate data in a structured manner. However, modern matrices can involve billions of elements, making their storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Rajarshi Saha , Varun Srivastava , Mert Pilanci

We study the problem of constructing explicit families of matrices which cannot be expressed as a product of a few sparse matrices. In addition to being a natural mathematical question on its own, this problem appears in various…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Mrinal Kumar , Ben Lee Volk

We consider the problem of computing matrix polynomials $p(X)$, where $X$ is a large dense matrix, with as few matrix-matrix multiplications as possible. More precisely, let $\Pi_{2^{m}}^*$ represent the set of polynomials computable with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Elias Jarlebring , Gustaf Lorentzon

In this article the notion of the nondecreasing (ND) rank of a matrix or tensor is introduced. A tensor has an ND rank of r if it can be represented as a sum of r outer products of vectors, with each vector satisfying a monotonicity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Andrew McCormack

Randomized sampling has recently been demonstrated to be an efficient technique for computing approximate low-rank factorizations of matrices for which fast methods for computing matrix vector products are available. This paper describes an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

This article characterizes the rank-one factorization of auto-correlation matrix polynomials. We establish a sufficient and necessary uniqueness condition for uniqueness of the factorization based on the greatest common divisor (GCD) of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Konstantin Usevich , Julien Flamant , Marianne Clausel , David Brie

It is well known that any nonsingular M-matrix admits an LU factorization into M-matrices (with L and U lower and upper triangular respectively) and any singular M-matrix is permutation similar to an M-matrix which admits an LU…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Judith J. McDonald , Hans Schneider

We study the complexity of solving the \emph{generalized MinRank problem}, i.e. computing the set of points where the evaluation of a polynomial matrix has rank at most $r$. A natural algebraic representation of this problem gives rise to a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jean-Charles Faugère , Mohab Safey El Din , Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer

Low rank approximation is a commonly occurring problem in many computer vision and machine learning applications. There are two common ways of optimizing the resulting models. Either the set of matrices with a given rank can be explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Carl Olsson , Anders Heyden

We study the problem of low-rank matrix completion for symmetric matrices. The minimum rank of a completion of a generic partially specified symmetric matrix depends only on the location of the specified entries, and not their values, if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Daniel Irving Bernstein , Grigoriy Blekherman , Kisun Lee

Nowadays, the availability of large-scale data in disparate application domains urges the deployment of sophisticated tools for extracting valuable knowledge out of this huge bulk of information. In that vein, low-rank representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Paris V. Giampouras , Athanasios A. Rontogiannis , Konstantinos D. Koutroumbas