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Low-rank modeling has a lot of important applications in machine learning, computer vision and social network analysis. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Wenliang Zhong

The nuclear norm is widely used as a convex surrogate of the rank function in compressive sensing for low rank matrix recovery with its applications in image recovery and signal processing. However, solving the nuclear norm based relaxed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Canyi Lu , Jinhui Tang , Shuicheng Yan , Zhouchen Lin

Originally developed for imputing missing entries in low rank, or approximately low rank matrices, matrix completion has proven widely effective in many problems where there is no reason to assume low-dimensional linear structure in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Yunhua Xiang , Tianyu Zhang , Xu Wang , Ali Shojaie , Noah Simon

We study a nonconvex optimization algorithmic approach to phase retrieval and the more general problem of semidefinite low-rank matrix sensing. Specifically, we analyze the nonconvex landscape of a quartic Burer-Monteiro factored…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Andrew D. McRae

The low-rank matrix reconstruction (LRMR) approach is widely used in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. As the rank norm penalty in an LRMR is NP-hard to compute, the nuclear norm (or the trace norm for a positive semidefinite (PSD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Xiaohuan Wu , Wei-Ping Zhu , Jun Yan

This work investigates the geometry of a nonconvex reformulation of minimizing a general convex loss function $f(X)$ regularized by the matrix nuclear norm $\|X\|_*$. Nuclear-norm regularized matrix inverse problems are at the heart of many…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Qiuwei Li , Zhihui Zhu , Gongguo Tang

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

In this paper, we investigate the matrix estimation problem in the multi-response regression model with measurement errors. A nonconvex error-corrected estimator based on a combination of the amended loss function and the nuclear norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

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

Low-rank modeling has many important applications in computer vision and machine learning. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has demonstrated better empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Taifeng Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

For the problems of low-rank matrix completion, the efficiency of the widely-used nuclear norm technique may be challenged under many circumstances, especially when certain basis coefficients are fixed, for example, the low-rank correlation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Weimin Miao , Shaohua Pan , Defeng Sun

We consider the problem of recovering low-rank matrices from random rank-one measurements, which spans numerous applications including covariance sketching, phase retrieval, quantum state tomography, and learning shallow polynomial neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yuanxin Li , Cong Ma , Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi

Rank minimization is of interest in machine learning applications such as recommender systems and robust principal component analysis. Minimizing the convex relaxation to the rank minimization problem, the nuclear norm, is an effective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 April Sagan , John E. Mitchell

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for recovery of low-rank matrices from compressed linear measurements. The underlying idea of this algorithm is to closely approximate the rank function with a smooth function of singular values,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh , Mikael Skoglund

We consider the problem of recovering a lowrank matrix M from a small number of random linear measurements. A popular and useful example of this problem is matrix completion, in which the measurements reveal the values of a subset of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Emmanuel J. Candes , Yaniv Plan

This letter proposes to estimate low-rank matrices by formulating a convex optimization problem with non-convex regularization. We employ parameterized non-convex penalty functions to estimate the non-zero singular values more accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Ankit Parekh , Ivan W. Selesnick

This paper studies the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from several noisy random linear measurements. We consider the setting where the rank of the ground-truth matrix is unknown a priori and use an objective function built from a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Lijun Ding , Zhen Qin , Liwei Jiang , Jinxin Zhou , Zhihui Zhu

We propose a convex optimization formulation with the nuclear norm and $\ell_1$-norm to find a large approximately rank-one submatrix of a given nonnegative matrix. We develop optimality conditions for the formulation and characterize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Xuan Vinh Doan , Stephen A. Vavasis

We consider the problem of estimation of a low-rank matrix from a limited number of noisy rank-one projections. In particular, we propose two fast, non-convex \emph{proper} algorithms for matrix recovery and support them with rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

Robust tensor recovery plays an instrumental role in robustifying tensor decompositions for multilinear data analysis against outliers, gross corruptions and missing values and has a diverse array of applications. In this paper, we study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-26 Donald Goldfarb , Zhiwei Qin