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Optimization over low rank matrices has broad applications in machine learning. For large scale problems, an attractive heuristic is to factorize the low rank matrix to a product of two much smaller matrices. In this paper, we study the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Huan Li , Zhouchen Lin

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) on a low-rank factorization is commonly employed to speed up matrix problems including matrix completion, subspace tracking, and SDP relaxation. In this paper, we exhibit a step size scheme for SGD on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Christopher De Sa , Kunle Olukotun , Christopher Ré

Low-rank matrix completion concerns the problem of estimating unobserved entries in a matrix using a sparse set of observed entries. We consider the non-uniform setting where the observed entries are sampled with highly varying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Xumei Xi , Christina Lee Yu , Yudong Chen

We propose a general theory for studying the \xl{landscape} of nonconvex \xl{optimization} with underlying symmetric structures \tz{for a class of machine learning problems (e.g., low-rank matrix factorization, phase retrieval, and deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Xingguo Li , Junwei Lu , Raman Arora , Jarvis Haupt , Han Liu , Zhaoran Wang , Tuo Zhao

A well-known method for completing low-rank matrices based on convex optimization has been established by Cand{\`e}s and Recht. Although theoretically complete, the method may not entirely solve the low-rank matrix completion problem. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-17 Guangcan Liu , Ping Li

Low-rank matrix estimation plays a central role in various applications across science and engineering. Recently, nonconvex formulations based on matrix factorization are provably solved by simple gradient descent algorithms with strong…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Cong Ma , Yuanxin Li , Yuejie Chi

This paper investigates the asymmetric low-rank matrix completion problem, which can be formulated as an unconstrained non-convex optimization problem with a nonlinear least-squares objective function, and is solved via gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Xu Zhang , Shuo Chen , Jinsheng Li , Xiangying Pang , Maoguo Gong

Robust matrix completion (RMC) is a widely used machine learning tool that simultaneously tackles two critical issues in low-rank data analysis: missing data entries and extreme outliers. This paper proposes a novel scalable and learnable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 HanQin Cai , Chandra Kundu , Jialin Liu , Wotao Yin

For the problem of reconstructing a low-rank matrix from a few linear measurements, two classes of algorithms have been widely studied in the literature: convex approaches based on nuclear norm minimization, and non-convex approaches that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-29 Dominik Stöger , Yizhe Zhu

Matrix factorization is a popular approach for large-scale matrix completion. The optimization formulation based on matrix factorization can be solved very efficiently by standard algorithms in practice. However, due to the non-convexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ruoyu Sun , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study the asymmetric matrix factorization problem under a natural nonconvex formulation with arbitrary overparametrization. The model-free setting is considered, with minimal assumption on the rank or singular values of the observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Liwei Jiang , Yudong Chen , Lijun Ding

Most of the existing works on provable guarantees for low-rank matrix completion algorithms rely on some unrealistic assumptions such that matrix entries are sampled randomly or the sampling pattern has a specific structure. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 Hanbyul Lee , Rahul Mazumder , Qifan Song , Jean Honorio

We consider a problem of considerable practical interest: the recovery of a data matrix from a sampling of its entries. Suppose that we observe m entries selected uniformly at random from a matrix M. Can we complete the matrix and recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-30 Emmanuel J. Candes , Benjamin Recht

In this paper we develop a new framework that captures the common landscape underlying the common non-convex low-rank matrix problems including matrix sensing, matrix completion and robust PCA. In particular, we show for all above problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Rong Ge , Chi Jin , Yi Zheng

Low-rank matrix recovery is a fundamental problem in signal processing and machine learning. A recent very popular approach to recovering a low-rank matrix X is to factorize it as a product of two smaller matrices, i.e., X = UV^T, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Shuang Li , Qiuwei Li , Zhihui Zhu , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

Low-rank Matrix Completion (LRMC) describes the problem where we wish to recover missing entries of partially observed low-rank matrix. Most existing matrix completion work deals with sampling procedures that are independent of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Rishhabh Naik , Nisarg Trivedi , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Laura Balzano

Matrix completion has attracted much interest in the past decade in machine learning and computer vision. For low-rank promotion in matrix completion, the nuclear norm penalty is convenient due to its convexity but has a bias problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fei Wen , Rendong Ying , Peilin Liu , Trieu-Kien Truong

Low-rank matrix completion consists of computing a matrix of minimal complexity that recovers a given set of observations as accurately as possible. Unfortunately, existing methods for matrix completion are heuristics that, while highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Sean Lo , Jean Pauphilet

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction or, equivalently, the approximation of high-dimensional data using a low-dimensional nonlinear manifold is an active area of research. In this paper, we will present a thematically different approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-21 Kelum Gajamannage , Randy Paffenroth

The inductive matrix completion (IMC) problem is to recover a low rank matrix from few observed entries while incorporating prior knowledge about its row and column subspaces. In this work, we make three contributions to the IMC problem:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Pini Zilber , Boaz Nadler