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A computationally challenging classical elimination theory problem is to compute polynomials which vanish on the set of tensors of a given rank. By moving away from computing polynomials via elimination theory to computing pseudowitness…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Alessandra Bernardi , Noah S. Daleo , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Bernard Mourrain

The tensor power method generalizes the matrix power method to higher order arrays, or tensors. Like in the matrix case, the fixed points of the tensor power method are the eigenvectors of the tensor. While every real symmetric matrix has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Tommi Muller , Elina Robeva , Konstantin Usevich

Compressed sensing extends from the recovery of sparse vectors from undersampled measurements via efficient algorithms to the recovery of matrices of low rank from incomplete information. Here we consider a further extension to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Holger Rauhut , Reinhold Schneider , Zeljka Stojanac

We study the decomposability and the subdifferential of the tensor nuclear norm. Both concepts are well understood and widely applied in matrices but remain unclear for higher-order tensors. We show that the tensor nuclear norm admits a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jiewen Guan , Bo Jiang , Zhening Li

We present an algorithm for decomposing a symmetric tensor, of dimension n and order d as a sum of rank-1 symmetric tensors, extending the algorithm of Sylvester devised in 1886 for binary forms. We recall the correspondence between the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2010-11-29 Jerome Brachat , Pierre Comon , Bernard Mourrain , Elias Tsigaridas

This paper discusses the problem of symmetric tensor decomposition on a given variety $X$: decomposing a symmetric tensor into the sum of tensor powers of vectors contained in $X$. In this paper, we first study geometric and algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Jiawang Nie , Ke Ye , Lihong Zhi

Due to the explosive growth of large-scale data sets, tensors have been a vital tool to analyze and process high-dimensional data. Different from the matrix case, tensor decomposition has been defined in various formats, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Rachel Grotheer , Shuang Li , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell , Jing Qin

There exist linear relations among tensor entries of low rank tensors. These linear relations can be expressed by multi-linear polynomials, which are called generating polynomials. We use generating polynomials to compute tensor rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Jiawang Nie , Li Wang , Zequn Zheng

We propose a constructive algorithm that decomposes an arbitrary real tensor into a finite sum of orthonormal rank-1 outer products. The algorithm, named TTr1SVD, works by converting the tensor into a tensor-train rank-1 (TTr1) series via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Kim Batselier , Haotian Liu , Ngai Wong

We prove (without exceptions) the existence of irredundant tensor decompositions with the number of addenda equal to rank $+1$. We also discuss the existence of decompositions with more than the tensor rank terms, which are concise, while…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Edoardo Ballico

Canonical Polyadic Decomposition (CPD) represents a third-order tensor as the minimal sum of rank-1 terms. Because of its uniqueness properties the CPD has found many concrete applications in telecommunication, array processing, machine…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Ignat Domanov , Lieven De Lathauwer

We present an algorithm for low rank decomposition of tensors of any symmetry type, from fully asymmetric to fully symmetric. It recovers the decomposition one summand at a time via the higher-order power method. This approach is known to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Kexin Wang , João M. Pereira , Joe Kileel , Anna Seigal

We introduce an inductive method for the study of the uniqueness of decompositions of tensors, by means of tensors of rank 1. The method is based on the geometric notion of weak defectivity. For three-dimensional tensors of type (a, b, c),…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-15 Luca Chiantini , Giorgio Ottaviani

The spectral theorem says that a real symmetric matrix has an orthogonal basis of eigenvectors and that, for a matrix with distinct eigenvalues, the basis is unique (up to signs). In this paper, we study the symmetric tensors with an…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Alvaro Ribot , Anna Seigal , Piotr Zwiernik

We investigate the structure of join tensors, which may be regarded as the multivariable extension of lattice-theoretic join matrices. Explicit formulae for a polyadic decomposition (i.e., a linear combination of rank-1 tensors) and a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Vesa Kaarnioja

In this paper, we suggest a new method for a given tensor to find CP decompositions using a less number of rank $1$ tensors. The main ingredient is the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) by considering the decomposition…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Taehyeong Kim , Jeong-Hoon Ju , Yeongrak Kim

Decompositions of tensors into factor matrices, which interact through a core tensor, have found numerous applications in signal processing and machine learning. A more general tensor model which represents data as an ordered network of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Anh-Huy Phan , Andrzej Cichocki , Andre Uschmajew , Petr Tichavsky , George Luta , Danilo Mandic

The tensor-train (TT) decomposition is widely used to compress large tensors into a more compact form by exploiting their inherent data structures. A fundamental approach for constructing the TT format is the well-known TT-SVD method, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuchao Wang , Maolin Che , Yimin Wei

This is the first in a series of papers on rank decompositions of the matrix multiplication tensor. In this paper we: establish general facts about rank decompositions of tensors, describe potential ways to search for new matrix…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Luca Chiantini , Christian Ikenmeyer , J. M. Landsberg , Giorgio Ottaviani

Tensor completion can estimate missing values of a high-order data from its partially observed entries. Recent works show that low rank tensor ring approximation is one of the most powerful tools to solve tensor completion problem. However,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-03 Abdul Ahad , Zhen Long , Ce Zhu , Yipeng Liu