New model reduces matrix factorization bias, yielding truly low-rank solutions.
problem Gradient descent's implicit bias in matrix factorization.
method Introducing a new factorization model with constrained factors and diagonal components.
result The new model consistently exhibits a strong implicit bias, yielding truly low-rank solutions.
Survey on factor models and their applications in econometrics.
problem Estimating low-rank structures in high-dimensional models.
method Low-rank recovery techniques for factor model estimation.
result New insights into factor model applications in econometrics.
New algorithm tackles low-rank constraints in optimal transport problems.
problem Optimal transport problems with low-rank constraints.
method Explicit factorization of low-rank couplings as a product of sub-coupling factors linked by a common marginal.
result Stationary convergence of the algorithm proved.
This paper tackles fitting multilevel low rank matrices by addressing three problems.
problem Fitting a given matrix by an MLR matrix in the Frobenius norm.
method Factor fitting, rank allocation, and hierarchical partitioning.
result The proposed methods can fit a given matrix by an MLR matrix in the Frobenius norm.
The paper examines how gradient descent stabilizes low-rank matrix factorization in noisy conditions.
problem Stability of low-rank implicit regularization in perturbed deep matrix factorization.
method Derives spectral conditions for gradient descent to exhibit a low-rank phase in noiseless settings and analyzes perturbed dynamics.
result Gradient descent converges to a low-rank solution under perturbation, with explicit dependence on perturbation size.
Equivalent formulations for low-rank matrix optimization are proven.
problem Low-rank matrix optimization with rank constraints.
method Established geometric landscape connections between manifold and factorization formulations.
result Equivalence between manifold and factorization formulations at FOSPs, SOSPs, and strict saddles.
Low-rank signal modeling has been widely leveraged to capture non-local correlation in image processing applications. We propose a new method that employs low-rank tensor factor analysis for tensors generated by grouped image patches. The low-rank tensors are fed into the alternative direction multiplier method (ADMM) …
This paper develops a new class of nonconvex regularizers for low-rank matrix recovery. Many regularizers are motivated as convex relaxations of the matrix rank function. Our new factor group-sparse regularizers are motivated as a relaxation of the number of nonzero columns in a factorization of the matrix. These nonco…
Paper tackles low-rank matrix recovery with column ℓ2,0-norm regularization.
problem Low-rank matrix recovery problems with column sparsity constraints.
method Developed alternating majorization-minimization (AMM) methods with extrapolation and hybrid AMM.
result Global convergence analysis and superior performance in matrix completion problems.
New algorithm for low-rank optimal transport with improved interpretability and efficiency.
problem Quadratic scaling of optimal transport coupling matrix for massive datasets.
method Factor Relaxation with Latent Coupling (FRLC) algorithm.
result Superior performance on diverse applications including graph clustering and spatial transcriptomics.
This work tackles sparse coding in DLRA for interpretable multiway data.
problem Sparse coding in DLRA for interpretable multiway data.
method Proposes a new sparse-coding subproblem (MSC) and several algorithms to solve it.
result DLRA extends low-rank approximations, reducing variance and enhancing interpretability.
Paper analyzes convergence of PAM method for low-rank factorization models.
problem Convergence analysis of PAM method with subspace correction for low-rank factorization models.
method Majorized proximal alternating minimization (PAM) method with subspace correction.
result Established full convergence of PAM method under KL property and column ℓ2,0-norm condition. Gradient descent solves asymmetric low-rank matrix sensing without balancing.
problem Recovering asymmetric low-rank matrices from linear measurements.
method Gradient descent with spectral initialization, avoiding balancing term.
result Gradient descent converges linearly without balancing, factors stay balanced.
Principal components analysis (PCA) is a well-known technique for approximating a tabular data set by a low rank matrix. Here, we extend the idea of PCA to handle arbitrary data sets consisting of numerical, Boolean, categorical, ordinal, and other data types. This framework encompasses many well known techniques in da…
Paper proposes a new algorithm for graph learning with covariance constraints.
problem Graphical models and factor analysis not jointly leveraged in graph learning processes.
method Penalized maximum likelihood estimation of an elliptical distribution with Riemannian optimization.
result Effectiveness of the proposed approach demonstrated on real-world data sets.
Proposes a new model for image restoration combining deep learning and total variation.
problem Restoring images from limited data with low-rank constraints insufficient.
method Regularized Deep Matrix Factorized (RDMF) model using deep neural network's low-rank bias and total variation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in image restoration from few observations.
We consider the problem of learning a low-rank matrix, constrained to lie in a linear subspace, and introduce a novel factorization for modeling such matrices. A salient feature of the proposed factorization scheme is it decouples the low-rank and the structural constraints onto separate factors. We formulate the optim…
Paper tackles fair low-rank approximation and column subset selection.
problem Minimize loss over sub-populations in machine learning.
method Developed algorithms for fair low-rank approximation and fair column subset selection.
result Achieved polynomial time algorithms for fair low-rank approximation.
Proposes a low-rank bilinear pooling model for link prediction in knowledge graphs.
problem Link prediction in incomplete knowledge graphs.
method Factorized bilinear pooling model with Tucker decomposition constraints.
result Efficient and parameter-efficient model with low-rank approximation.
Paper studies asymmetric matrix sensing, proving gradient descent converges to low-rank solutions.
problem Reconstructing asymmetric low-rank matrices from linear measurements.
method Factorized gradient descent with coupling and regularization properties.
result Gradient descent from small random initialization converges to globally optimal and generalizing solutions.
Neural network factorization speeds up Vlasov equation simulations.
problem Accelerating simulations of collisionless plasma described by the Vlasov equation.
method Data-driven low-rank matrix factorization using convolutional neural networks.
result The method outperforms standard linear algebra at inference time.
ScaledGD accelerates ill-conditioned low-rank estimation.
problem Slow convergence of gradient descent in ill-conditioned problems.
method Scaled gradient descent (ScaledGD) with preconditioning.
result Linear convergence rate independent of condition number.
Gradient descent solves asymmetric low-rank matrix factorization efficiently.
problem Optimizing asymmetric low-rank matrix factorization with non-convex and non-smoothness issues.
method Randomly initialized gradient descent with new symmetrization and perturbation techniques.
result Gradient descent converges to a global minimum of the asymmetric low-rank factorization problem.
Algorithm compresses large matrices by approximating them as low rank and low precision factors.
problem Efficiently storing and processing large matrices with billions of elements.
method Randomized sketching and quantization of matrix columns to achieve low rank and low precision factorization.
result Achieves compression ratios as low as one bit per matrix coordinate while maintaining or improving performance.
GLSKF improves tensor completion by capturing both global and local variations.
problem Tensor completion with missing entries, especially in data with spatial or temporal side information.
method Integrates smoothness-constrained low-rank factorization with a locally correlated residual process.
result GLSKF achieves superior performance and scalability on real-world datasets.
New approach to convex hulls for low-rank problems.
problem Characterizing convex hulls for low-rank sets.
method Matrix perspective function and orthogonal projection matrices.
result Strong relaxations for various low-rank problems.
Estimates joint probability distribution from 1-way marginals using low-rank tensors and random projections.
problem Nonparametric estimation of joint probability mass function (PMF) from limited data.
method Low-rank tensor decomposition and random projections to link data to PMF estimation.
result Estimates joint density from 1-way marginals using transformed space and novel algorithm.
ScaledGD improves gradient descent for ill-conditioned low-rank matrix estimation.
problem Efficiently solving ill-conditioned low-rank matrix estimation problems.
method Scaled Gradient Descent (ScaledGD) with adaptive pre-conditioners.
result Linear convergence rate independent of condition number, low per-iteration cost.
Tensor completion estimates missing components by exploiting the low-rank structure of multi-way data. The recently proposed methods based on tensor train (TT) and tensor ring (TR) show better performance in image recovery than classical ones. Compared with TT and TR, the projected entangled pair state (PEPS), which is…
New method for factor analysis using nuclear and ℓ0 norms.
problem Finding a low-rank plus sparse decomposition from noisy covariance matrix.
method Formulated an optimization problem with nuclear norm, ℓ0 norm, and KL divergence. Used alternating minimization algorithm. result Algorithm effectively decomposes covariance matrices in synthetic and real datasets.
We simplify SSL by approximating redundant structural components with low-rank factorization.
problem Improving self-supervised learning performance with limited labeled data.
method Low-rank approximation of structural redundancy, introducing ε_s to measure approximation quality.
result The proposed method enhances SSL performance, as shown by theoretical and experimental validations.
Recently, Factorization Machines (FM) has become more and more popular for recommendation systems, due to its effectiveness in finding informative interactions between features. Usually, the weights for the interactions is learnt as a low rank weight matrix, which is formulated as an inner product of two low rank matri…
What learning algorithms can be run directly on compressively-sensed data? In this work, we consider the question of accurately and efficiently computing low-rank matrix or tensor factorizations given data compressed via random projections. We examine the approach of first performing factorization in the compressed dom…
As opposed to manual feature engineering which is tedious and difficult to scale, network representation learning has attracted a surge of research interests as it automates the process of feature learning on graphs. The learned low-dimensional node vector representation is generalizable and eases the knowledge discove…
Synthetic interventions extend SC method to multiple treatments.
problem Evaluating the impact of multiple treatments in panel data.
method Low-rank tensor factor model for latent factors of treatments.
result Consistent and asymptotically normal estimators for synthetic interventions.
Low-rank factorization is a standard way to make structured optimization problems in machine learning more tractable by replacing matrix variables with compact factors. For positive semidefinite (PSD) variables, the symmetric Burer--Monteiro factorization (sBMF) writes Z=XX⊤ with a single low-rank factor X. A r…
Low rank matrix factorization is a fundamental building block in machine learning, used for instance to summarize gene expression profile data or word-document counts. To be robust to outliers and differences in scale across features, a matrix factorization step is usually preceded by ad-hoc feature normalization steps…
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 be solved by the natural convex joint/mixed relaxations (i.e., l_{1}-norm and tr…
Proposes D-CDLF for multi-view data decomposition.
problem Uncorrelatedness between common and distinctive latent factors.
method Decomposes data into common, distinctive, and noise components.
result Effective uncorrelatedness between distinctive latent factors from different views.
Unified model for tensor completion using low-rank and sparse Tucker decomposition.
problem Estimating missing data from incomplete tensor measurements.
method Unified low-rank and sparse enhanced Tucker decomposition model with ADMM.
result Our model achieves higher recovery accuracy on various real-world data sets.
Exponentially fast SMF algorithm for multi-class classification.
problem Learning interpretable features from high-dimensional data.
method Novel framework that 'lifts' SMF as a low-rank matrix estimation problem.
result Provable exponential convergence to global minimizer under mild assumptions.
Gradient descent promotes low-rank solutions in tensor completion.
problem Implicit regularization in tensor factorization using gradient descent.
method Introduced deep Tucker and TensorTrain (TT) unconstrained factorization to address tensor completion.
result Gradient descent promotes solutions with low-rank.
SVD training reduces DNN rank and computation load without SVD per step.
problem High memory and computational load in deep neural networks.
method Explicitly achieves low-rank DNNs during training without SVD per step, using orthogonality regularization and sparsity-inducing regularizers.
result Significantly reduces DNN rank and computation load compared to existing methods.
We study the projected gradient descent method on low-rank matrix problems with a strongly convex objective. We use the Burer-Monteiro factorization approach to implicitly enforce low-rankness; such factorization introduces non-convexity in the objective. We focus on constraint sets that include both positive semi-defi…
Paper proposes fast, robust methods for low-rank matrix recovery.
problem Estimating low-rank matrices from incomplete or corrupted data.
method Scaled subgradient methods for nonsmooth, nonconvex formulations.
result Methods converge almost dimension-free and condition-number independent.
Fast and accurate methods for low-rank learning problems.
problem Partial singular value decomposition and numerical rank estimation of huge matrices.
method Krylov subspaces and Ritz vectors for fast and accurate solutions.
result Advantages over traditional methods in accuracy and speed.
Kernel methods are widespread in machine learning; however, they are limited by the quadratic complexity of the construction, application, and storage of kernel matrices. Low-rank matrix approximation algorithms are widely used to address this problem and reduce the arithmetic and storage cost. However, we observed tha…
Meta learns low-rank covariance factors for better uncertainty estimation.
problem Sub-optimal covariance matrices in multi-task settings.
method Meta learns diagonal or diagonal plus low-rank factors using an attentive set encoder.
result Efficiently constructed task-specific covariance matrices improve uncertainty estimation.