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We study the robust principal component analysis (RPCA) problem in a distributed setting. The goal of RPCA is to find an underlying low-rank estimation for a raw data matrix when the data matrix is subject to the corruption of gross sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Wenda Chu

In recent work, robust Principal Components Analysis (PCA) has been posed as a problem of recovering a low-rank matrix $\mathbf{L}$ and a sparse matrix $\mathbf{S}$ from their sum, $\mathbf{M}:= \mathbf{L} + \mathbf{S}$ and a provably exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jinchun Zhan , Namrata Vaswani

Recovering low-rank and sparse matrices from incomplete or corrupted observations is an important problem in machine learning, statistics, bioinformatics, computer vision, as well as signal and image processing. In theory, this problem can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hanghang Tong , James Cheng , Hong Cheng

This work studies low-rank approximation of a positive semidefinite matrix from partial entries via nonconvex optimization. We characterized how well local-minimum based low-rank factorization approximates a fixed positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Ji Chen , Xiaodong Li

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) has drawn significant attentions due to its powerful capability in recovering low-rank matrices as well as successful appplications in various real world problems. The current state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Chong Peng , Chenglizhao Chen , Zhao Kang , Jianbo Li , Qiang Cheng

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a well-studied problem with the goal of decomposing a matrix into the sum of low-rank and sparse components. In this paper, we propose a nonconvex feasibility reformulation of RPCA problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Aritra Dutta , Filip Hanzely , Peter Richtárik

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of Robust Matrix Completion (RMC) where the goal is to recover a low-rank matrix by observing a small number of its entries out of which a few can be arbitrarily corrupted. We propose a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Kartik Gupta , Prateek Jain

The common task in matrix completion (MC) and robust principle component analysis (RPCA) is to recover a low-rank matrix from a given data matrix. These problems gained great attention from various areas in applied sciences recently,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Hui Zhang , Jian-Feng Cai , Lizhi Cheng , Jubo Zhu

This work is concerned with the non-negative rank-1 robust principal component analysis (RPCA), where the goal is to recover the dominant non-negative principal components of a data matrix precisely, where a number of measurements could be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Salar Fattahi , Somayeh Sojoudi

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

In this paper we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from a number of random linear measurements that are corrupted by outliers taking arbitrary values. We consider a nonsmooth nonconvex formulation of the problem, in which we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Rene Vidal

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

Substantial progress has been made recently on developing provably accurate and efficient algorithms for low-rank matrix factorization via nonconvex optimization. While conventional wisdom often takes a dim view of nonconvex optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Yuejie Chi , Yue M. Lu , Yuxin Chen

We revisit the problem of robust principal component analysis with features acting as prior side information. To this aim, a novel, elegant, non-convex optimization approach is proposed to decompose a given observation matrix into a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-15 Niannan Xue , Jiankang Deng , Yannis Panagakis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In this paper, we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix (the principal components) from a high-dimensional data matrix despite both small entry-wise noise and gross sparse errors. Recently, it has been shown that a convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Zihan Zhou , Xiaodong Li , John Wright , Emmanuel Candes , Yi Ma

Trace norm regularization is a widely used approach for learning low rank matrices. A standard optimization strategy is based on formulating the problem as one of low rank matrix factorization which, however, leads to a non-convex problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Carlo Ciliberto , Dimitris Stamos , Massimiliano Pontil

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a critical tool in modern machine learning, which detects outliers in the task of low-rank matrix reconstruction. In this paper, we propose a scalable and learnable non-convex approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 HanQin Cai , Jialin Liu , Wotao Yin

Many problems in data science can be treated as estimating a low-rank matrix from highly incomplete, sometimes even corrupted, observations. One popular approach is to resort to matrix factorization, where the low-rank matrix factors are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Tian Tong , Cong Ma , Yuejie Chi

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) seeks a low-rank component and a sparse component from their summation. Yet, in many applications of interest, the sparse foreground actually replaces, or occludes, elements from the low-rank…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yinjian Wang , Wei Li , Yuanyuan Gui , James E. Fowler , Gemine Vivone