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Estimating high-dimensional precision matrices is a fundamental problem in modern statistics, with the graphical lasso and its $\ell_1$-penalty being a standard approach for recovering sparsity patterns. However, many statistical models,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Piotr Graczyk , Bartosz Kołodziejek , Hideto Nakashima , Maciej Wilczyński

The nuclear norm (NN) has been widely explored in matrix recovery problems, such as Robust PCA and matrix completion, leveraging the inherent global low-rank structure of the data. In this study, we introduce a new modified nuclear norm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jiangjun Peng , Yisi Luo , Xiangyong Cao , Shuang Xu , Deyu Meng

We propose a unified framework to solve general low-rank plus sparse matrix recovery problems based on matrix factorization, which covers a broad family of objective functions satisfying the restricted strong convexity and smoothness…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Xiao Zhang , Lingxiao Wang , Quanquan Gu

We study the problem of estimating a low-rank positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix from a set of rank-one measurements using sensing vectors composed of i.i.d. standard Gaussian entries, which are possibly corrupted by arbitrary outliers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Yuanxin Li , Yue Sun , Yuejie Chi

We propose a new randomized algorithm for solving convex optimization problems that have a large number of constraints (with high probability). Existing methods like interior-point or Newton-type algorithms are hard to apply to such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Bo Wei , William B. Haskell , Sixiang Zhao

This paper introduces a novel algorithm to approximate the matrix with minimum nuclear norm among all matrices obeying a set of convex constraints. This problem may be understood as the convex relaxation of a rank minimization problem, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Jian-Feng Cai , Emmanuel J. Candes , Zuowei Shen

The paper deals with the problem of penalized empirical risk minimization over a convex set of linear functionals on the space of Hermitian matrices with convex loss and nuclear norm penalty. Such penalization is often used in low rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Vladimir Koltchinskii

We consider the problem of estimating the factors of a rank-$1$ matrix with i.i.d. Gaussian, rank-$1$ measurements that are nonlinearly transformed and corrupted by noise. Considering two prototypical choices for the nonlinearity, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Kabir Aladin Chandrasekher , Mengqi Lou , Ashwin Pananjady

This work addresses the robust reconstruction problem of a sparse signal from compressed measurements. We propose a robust formulation for sparse reconstruction which employs the $\ell_1$-norm as the loss function for the residual error and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Fei Wen , Yuan Yang , Ling Pei , Wenxian Yu , Peilin Liu

For obtaining optimal first-order convergence guarantee for stochastic optimization, it is necessary to use a recurrent data sampling algorithm that samples every data point with sufficient frequency. Most commonly used data sampling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 William G. Powell , Hanbaek Lyu

In this paper, we bring forward a completely perturbed nonconvex Schatten $p$-minimization to address a model of completely perturbed low-rank matrix recovery. The paper that based on the restricted isometry property generalizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Jianwen Huang , Wendong Wang , Feng Zhang , Jianjun Wang

In this paper, we develop a relative error bound for nuclear norm regularized matrix completion, with the focus on the completion of full-rank matrices. Under the assumption that the top eigenspaces of the target matrix are incoherent, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

This paper addresses the optimization problem of minimizing non-convex continuous functions, which is relevant in the context of high-dimensional machine learning applications characterized by over-parametrization. We analyze a randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jim Zhao , Aurelien Lucchi , Nikita Doikov

Low-rank learning has attracted much attention recently due to its efficacy in a rich variety of real-world tasks, e.g., subspace segmentation and image categorization. Most low-rank methods are incapable of capturing low-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Ping Li , Jun Yu , Meng Wang , Luming Zhang , Deng Cai , Xuelong Li

The goal of affine matrix rank minimization problem is to reconstruct a low-rank or approximately low-rank matrix under linear constraints. In general, this problem is combinatorial and NP-hard. In this paper, a nonconvex fraction function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Angang Cui , Jigen Peng , Haiyang Li

This paper studies the problem of deterministic rank-one matrix completion. It is known that the simplest semidefinite programming relaxation, involving minimization of the nuclear norm, does not in general return the solution for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Augustin Cosse , Laurent Demanet

We study the problem of finding structured low-rank matrices using nuclear norm regularization where the structure is encoded by a linear map. In contrast to most known approaches for linearly structured rank minimization, we do not (a) use…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Adams Wei Yu , Wanli Ma , Yaoliang Yu , Jaime G. Carbonell , Suvrit Sra

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

In low-rank matrix recovery, one aims to reconstruct a low-rank matrix from a minimal number of linear measurements. Within the paradigm of compressed sensing, this is made computationally efficient by minimizing the nuclear norm as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Martin Kliesch , Richard Kueng , Jens Eisert , David Gross

The goal of Sparse Convex Optimization is to optimize a convex function $f$ under a sparsity constraint $s\leq s^*\gamma$, where $s^*$ is the target number of non-zero entries in a feasible solution (sparsity) and $\gamma\geq 1$ is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Kyriakos Axiotis , Maxim Sviridenko