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We present novel techniques for analyzing the problem of low-rank matrix recovery. The methods are both considerably simpler and more general than previous approaches. It is shown that an unknown (n x n) matrix of rank r can be efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-22 David Gross

In this paper, we propose three approaches for the estimation of the Tucker decomposition of multi-way arrays (tensors) from partial observations. All approaches are formulated as convex minimization problems. Therefore, the minimum is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Ryota Tomioka , Kohei Hayashi , Hisashi Kashima

The problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from the linear constraints, known as affine matrix rank minimization problem, has been attracting extensive attention in recent years. In general, affine matrix rank minimization problem is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Angang Cui , Jigen Peng , Haiyang Li

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

Low-rank matrix recovery has found many applications in science and engineering such as machine learning, signal processing, collaborative filtering, system identification, and Euclidean embedding. But the low-rank matrix recovery problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Jirong Yi , Weiyu Xu

We consider the question of estimating a solution to a system of equations that involve convex nonlinearities, a problem that is common in machine learning and signal processing. Because of these nonlinearities, conventional estimators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

In this paper, we study the trace regression when a matrix of parameters B* is estimated via the convex relaxation of a rank-regularized regression or via regularized non-convex optimization. It is known that these estimators satisfy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Nima Hamidi , Mohsen Bayati

Low-rank and nonsmooth matrix optimization problems capture many fundamental tasks in statistics and machine learning. While significant progress has been made in recent years in developing efficient methods for \textit{smooth} low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan

We investigate implicit regularization schemes for gradient descent methods applied to unpenalized least squares regression to solve the problem of reconstructing a sparse signal from an underdetermined system of linear measurements under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Tomas Vaškevičius , Varun Kanade , Patrick Rebeschini

We develop regularization methods to find flat minima while training deep neural networks. These minima generalize better than sharp minima, yielding models outperforming baselines on real-world test data (which may be distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Adam Sandler , Diego Klabjan , Yuan Luo

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

Low-rank modeling generally refers to a class of methods that solve problems by representing variables of interest as low-rank matrices. It has achieved great success in various fields including computer vision, data mining, signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Xiaowei Zhou , Can Yang , Hongyu Zhao , Weichuan Yu

Low-rank matrix recovery addresses the problem of recovering an unknown low-rank matrix from few linear measurements. Nuclear-norm minimization is a tractible approach with a recent surge of strong theoretical backing. Analagous to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Yonina C. Eldar , Deanna Needell , Yaniv Plan

We propose a nonconvex estimator for joint multivariate regression and precision matrix estimation in the high dimensional regime, under sparsity constraints. A gradient descent algorithm with hard thresholding is developed to solve the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-03 Jinghui Chen , Quanquan Gu

Over the past few years, trace regression models have received considerable attention in the context of matrix completion, quantum state tomography, and compressed sensing. Estimation of the underlying matrix from regularization-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-24 Martin Slawski , Ping Li , Matthias Hein

This paper is concerned with the column $\ell_{2,0}$-regularized factorization model of low-rank matrix recovery problems and its computation. The column $\ell_{2,0}$-norm of factor matrices is introduced to promote column sparsity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Ting Tao , Yitian Qian , Shaohua Pan

Composite convex optimization problems which include both a nonsmooth term and a low-rank promoting term have important applications in machine learning and signal processing, such as when one wishes to recover an unknown matrix that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan

Techniques of matrix completion aim to impute a large portion of missing entries in a data matrix through a small portion of observed ones. In practice including collaborative filtering, prior information and special structures are usually…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Ji Chen , Xiaodong Li , Zongming Ma

In matrix recovery from random linear measurements, one is interested in recovering an unknown $M$-by-$N$ matrix $X_0$ from $n<MN$ measurements $y_i=Tr(A_i^T X_0)$ where each $A_i$ is an $M$-by-$N$ measurement matrix with i.i.d random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Elad Romanov , Matan Gavish

Convex regularizers are often used for sparse learning. They are easy to optimize, but can lead to inferior prediction performance. The difference of $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ ($\ell_{1-2}$) regularizer has been recently proposed as a nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Xiawei Guo