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Nonparametric covariate adjustment is considered for log-rank type tests of treatment effect with right-censored time-to-event data from clinical trials applying covariate-adaptive randomization. Our proposed covariate-adjusted log-rank…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-23 Ting Ye , Jun Shao , Yanyao Yi

Optimization problems with rank constraints arise in many applications, including matrix regression, structured PCA, matrix completion and matrix decomposition problems. An attractive heuristic for solving such problems is to factorize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Yudong Chen , Martin J. Wainwright

Minimizing the rank of a matrix subject to constraints is a challenging problem that arises in many applications in control theory, machine learning, and discrete geometry. This class of optimization problems, known as rank minimization, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Benjamin Recht , Weiyu Xu , Babak Hassibi

The nuclear norm is widely used as a convex surrogate of the rank function in compressive sensing for low rank matrix recovery with its applications in image recovery and signal processing. However, solving the nuclear norm based relaxed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Canyi Lu , Jinhui Tang , Shuicheng Yan , Zhouchen Lin

In this paper, we propose a general framework for distribution-free nonparametric testing in multi-dimensions, based on a notion of multivariate ranks defined using the theory of measure transportation. Unlike other existing proposals in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Nabarun Deb , Bodhisattva Sen

In [Mulmuley, 1987], Mulmuley gave an algorithm reducing the computation of the matrix rank function to that of determinants, of which the proof for the verification is elementary. In this article, we formalize this argument in the bounded…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Eitetsu Ken , Satoru Kuroda

We introduce a new criterion, the Rank Selection Criterion (RSC), for selecting the optimal reduced rank estimator of the coefficient matrix in multivariate response regression models. The corresponding RSC estimator minimizes the Frobenius…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Florentina Bunea , Yiyuan She , Marten H. Wegkamp

We consider the problem of recovering low-rank matrices from random rank-one measurements, which spans numerous applications including covariance sketching, phase retrieval, quantum state tomography, and learning shallow polynomial neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yuanxin Li , Cong Ma , Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi

Low-rank matrix recovery is well-known to exhibit benign nonconvexity under the restricted isometry property (RIP): every second-order critical point is globally optimal, so local methods provably recover the ground truth. Motivated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Richard Y. Zhang

The wall-and-chamber structure of the dependence of the reductive GIT quotient on the choice of linearisation is well known. In this article, we first give a brief survey of recent results in non-reductive GIT, which apply when the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Gergely Bérczi , Joshua Jackson , Frances Kirwan

Rank minimization (RM) is a wildly investigated task of finding solutions by exploiting low-rank structure of parameter matrices. Recently, solving RM problem by leveraging non-convex relaxations has received significant attention. It has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Zaiyi Chen

Estimating the linear dimensionality of a data set in the presence of noise is a common problem. However, data may also be corrupted by monotone nonlinear distortion that preserves the ordering of matrix entries but causes linear methods…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Caitlin Lienkaemper

Bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) problems in system and control designs are investigated in this paper. A solution method of reduction of variables (MRVs) is proposed. This method consists of a principle of variable classification, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Wei-Yu Chiu

Adaptive nuclear-norm penalization is proposed for low-rank matrix approximation, by which we develop a new reduced-rank estimation method for the general high-dimensional multivariate regression problems. The adaptive nuclear norm of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-09-25 Kun Chen , Hongbo Dong , Kung-Sik Chan

Estimating the true rank of a noisy data matrix is a fundamental problem underlying techniques such as principal component analysis, matrix completion, etc. Existing rank estimation criteria, including information-based and cross-validation…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-23 Subhrajyoty Roy , Abhik Ghosh , Ayanendranath Basu

Determining the appropriate rank in Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a critical challenge that often requires extensive parameter tuning and domain-specific knowledge. Traditional methods for rank determination focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Marc A. Tunnell , Zachary J. DeBruine , Erin Carrier

Matrices with low-rank structure are ubiquitous in scientific computing. Choosing an appropriate rank is a key step in many computational algorithms that exploit low-rank structure. However, estimating the rank has been done largely in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Maike Meier , Yuji Nakatsukasa

Addressing selection bias in latent variable causal discovery is important yet underexplored, largely due to a lack of suitable statistical tools: While various tools beyond basic conditional independencies have been developed to handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Haoyue Dai , Yiwen Qiu , Ignavier Ng , Xinshuai Dong , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

Matrix rank minimization problems are gaining a plenty of recent attention in both mathematical and engineering fields. This class of problems, arising in various and across-discipline applications, is known to be NP-hard in general. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-06 Yun-Bin Zhao

In this paper we present a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for testing if a symbolic matrix in non-commuting variables over $\mathbb{Q}$ is invertible or not. The analogous question for commuting variables is the celebrated…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Ankit Garg , Leonid Gurvits , Rafael Oliveira , Avi Wigderson