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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

Low rank tensor decompositions are a powerful tool for learning generative models, and uniqueness results give them a significant advantage over matrix decomposition methods. However, tensors pose significant algorithmic challenges and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Ankur Moitra , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study the computational complexity of singularity for multilinear maps. While the determinant characterizes singularity for matrices, its multilinear analogue -- the hyperdeterminant -- is defined only in boundary format and quickly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Angshul Majumdar

We present a formulation of deep learning that aims at producing a large margin classifier. The notion of margin, minimum distance to a decision boundary, has served as the foundation of several theoretically profound and empirically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-05 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Dilip Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi , Kevin Regan , Samy Bengio

Determinantal methods for bounding the rank and border rank of tensors or polynomials are subject to a major barrier. For instance, it is known that using determinantal methods one cannot prove a lower bound for the border rank of a 3-way…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jarosław Buczyński

We prove lower bounds of order $n\log n$ for both the problem to multiply polynomials of degree $n$, and to divide polynomials with remainder, in the model of bounded coefficient arithmetic circuits over the complex numbers. These lower…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Peter Buergisser , Martin Lotz

We obtain upper bounds, independent of the ambient dimension, for the number of realizable zero-nonzero patterns and (over ordered fields) sign conditions of a finite family of polynomials $\mathcal P$ restricted to an algebraic subset $V$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Saugata Basu , Laxmi Parida

Symmetric tensor decomposition is an important problem with applications in several areas for example signal processing, statistics, data analysis and computational neuroscience. It is equivalent to Waring's problem for homogeneous…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Matías Bender , Jean-Charles Faugère , Ludovic Perret , Elias Tsigaridas

The Waring Problem over polynomial rings asks for how to decompose an homogeneous polynomial of degree $d$ as a finite sum of $d^{th}$ powers of linear forms. First, we give a constructive method to obtain a real Waring decomposition of any…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Macarena Ansola , Antonio Díaz-Cano , M. Angeles Zurro

We investigate border ranks of twisted powers of polynomials and smoothability of symmetric powers of algebras. We prove that the latter are smoothable. For the former, we obtain upper bounds for the border rank in general and prove that…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Cosimo Flavi , Joachim Jelisiejew , Mateusz Michałek

Matrix denoising is central to signal processing and machine learning. Its statistical analysis when the matrix to infer has a factorised structure with a rank growing proportionally to its dimension remains a challenge, except when it is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-17 Jean Barbier , Francesco Camilli , Justin Ko , Koki Okajima

We study the termination problem for nondeterministic recursive probabilistic programs. First, we show that a ranking-supermartingales-based approach is both sound and complete for bounded terminiation (i.e., bounded expected termination…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Hongfei Fu

The Waring Problem over polynomial rings asks how to decompose a homogeneous polynomial $p$ of degree $d$ as a finite sum of $d$-{th} powers of linear forms. In this work we give an algorithm to obtain a real Waring decomposition of any…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Macarena Ansola , Antonio Díaz-Cano , M. Angeles Zurro

Starting from our previous papers [AGMO] and [ABC], we prove the existence of a non-empty Euclidean open subset whose elements are polynomial vectors with 4 components, in 3 variables, degrees, respectively, 2,3,3,3 and rank 6, which are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Elena Angelini

An important yet challenging problem in numerical linear algebra is finding a principal submatrix with maximum determinant from a given symmetric positive semidefinite matrix. This problem arises in experimental design, statistics, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Hao Hu , Stefan Sremac , Hugo J. Woerdeman , Henry Wolkowicz

One important issue implied by the finite nature of real-world networks regards the identification of their more external (border) and internal nodes. The present work proposes a formal and objective definition of these properties, founded…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Bruno A. N. Travencolo , Matheus P. Viana , Luciano da F. Costa

We consider a notion of probabilistic rank and probabilistic sign-rank of a matrix, which measures the extent to which a matrix can be probabilistically represented by low-rank matrices. We demonstrate several connections with matrix…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Josh Alman , Ryan Williams

Canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) is at the core of fast matrix multiplication, a computational problem with widespread implications across several seemingly unrelated problems in computer science. Much recent progress in this field…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jason Yang

Triangular decomposition is a classic, widely used and well-developed way to represent algebraic varieties with many applications. In particular, there exist sharp degree bounds for a single triangular set in terms of intrinsic data of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Gleb Pogudin , Agnes Szanto

We study the tensor rank of the tensor corresponding to the algebra of n-variate complex polynomials modulo the dth power of each variable. As a result we find a sequence of tensors with a large gap between rank and border rank, and thus a…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Jeroen Zuiddam