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The task of recovering a low-rank matrix from its noisy linear measurements plays a central role in computational science. Smooth formulations of the problem often exhibit an undesirable phenomenon: the condition number, classically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Yudong Chen , Damek Davis , Mateo Díaz , Lijun Ding , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

In this work, we consider ranking problems among a finite set of candidates: for instance, selecting the top-$k$ items among a larger list of candidates or obtaining the full ranking of all items in the set. These problems are often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Ruiting Liang , Jake A. Soloff , Rina Foygel Barber , Rebecca Willett

Low-rank matrix recovery problems involving high-dimensional and heterogeneous data appear in applications throughout statistics and machine learning. The contribution of this paper is to establish the fundamental limits of recovery for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-22 Joshua K. Behne , Galen Reeves

In this paper, we propose a general framework for the asymptotic analysis of node-based verification-based algorithms. In our analysis we tend the signal length $n$ to infinity. We also let the number of non-zero elements of the signal $k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Yaser Eftekhari , Amir H. Banihashemi , Ioannis Lambadaris

Given a measurement graph $G= (V,E)$ and an unknown signal $r \in \mathbb{R}^n$, we investigate algorithms for recovering $r$ from pairwise measurements of the form $r_i - r_j$; $\{i,j\} \in E$. This problem arises in a variety of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-10 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Mihai Cucuringu , Hemant Tyagi

The problem of recovering a low $n$-rank tensor is an extension of sparse recovery problem from the low dimensional space (matrix space) to the high dimensional space (tensor space) and has many applications in computer vision and graphics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-09 Min Zhang , Lei Yang , Zheng-Hai Huang

We study the recovery of the underlying graphs or permutations for tensors in the tensor ring or tensor train format. Our proposed algorithms compare the matricization ranks after down-sampling, whose complexity is $O(d\log d)$ for $d$-th…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Ziang Chen , Jianfeng Lu , Anru R. Zhang

We propose a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm for inequality constrained optimization that is robust to the presence of bounded noise in function and derivative evaluations. We cover the case where constraint evaluations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Figen Oztoprak , Richard Byrd

The orthogonal group synchronization problem, which aims to recover a set of $d \times d$ orthogonal matrices from their pairwise noisy products, plays a fundamental role in signal processing, computer vision, and network analysis. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Shuyang Ling

The rank aggregation problem, which has many real-world applications, refers to the process of combining multiple input rankings into a single aggregated ranking. In dynamic settings, where new rankings arrive over time, efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Morteza Alimi , Hourie Mehrabiun , Alireza Zarei

The seminal paper by Mazumdar and Saha \cite{MS17a} introduced an extensive line of work on clustering with noisy queries. Yet, despite significant progress on the problem, the proposed methods depend crucially on knowing the exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Alberto Del Pia , Mingchen Ma , Christos Tzamos

In sparse principal component analysis we are given noisy observations of a low-rank matrix of dimension $n\times p$ and seek to reconstruct it under additional sparsity assumptions. In particular, we assume here each of the principal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

Graph-based semi-supervised learning methods combine the graph structure and labeled data to classify unlabeled data. In this work, we study the effect of a noisy oracle on classification. In particular, we derive the Maximum A Posteriori…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Maximilien Dreveton

In this paper, we aim to reconstruct an n-dimensional real vector from m phaseless measurements corrupted by an additive noise. We extend the noiseless framework developed in [15], based on mirror descent (or Bregman gradient descent), to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Jean-Jacques Godeme , Jalal Fadili , Claude Amra , Myriam Zerrad

In program synthesis, an intelligent system takes in a set of user-generated examples and returns a program that is logically consistent with these examples. The usage of Rational Speech Acts (RSA) framework has been successful in building…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yewen Pu , Saujas Vaduguru , Priyan Vaithilingam , Elena Glassman , Daniel Fried

Estimating the leading principal components of data, assuming they are sparse, is a central task in modern high-dimensional statistics. Many algorithms were developed for this sparse PCA problem, from simple diagonal thresholding to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Robert Krauthgamer , Boaz Nadler , Dan Vilenchik

We consider a ranking problem where we have noisy observations from a matrix with isotonic columns whose rows have been permuted by some permutation $\pi$ *. This encompasses many models, including crowd-labeling and ranking in tournaments…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Emmanuel Pilliat , Alexandra Carpentier , Nicolas Verzelen

We consider recovery of low-rank matrices from noisy data by hard thresholding of singular values, where singular values below a prescribed threshold $\lambda$ are set to 0. We study the asymptotic MSE in a framework where the matrix size…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-05 Matan Gavish , David L. Donoho

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) often arise in relaxations of some NP-hard problems, and if the solution of the SDP obeys certain rank constraints, the relaxation will be tight. Decomposition methods based on chordal sparsity have already been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Jared Miller , Yang Zheng , Biel Roig-Solvas , Mario Sznaier , Antonis Papachristodoulou

A host of problems involve the recovery of structured signals from a dimensionality reduced representation such as a random projection; examples include sparse signals (compressive sensing) and low-rank matrices (matrix completion). Given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Shirin Jalali , Arian Maleki , Richard Baraniuk