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New method improves robust low-rank matrix completion for computer vision.
New method solves nonsmooth low-rank matrix optimization problems efficiently.
We propose a unified framework for estimating low-rank matrices through nonconvex optimization based on gradient descent algorithm. Our framework is quite general and can be applied to both noisy and noiseless observations. In the general case with noisy observations, we show that our algorithm is guaranteed to linearl…
New method solves matrix completion problems to certifiable optimality.
New nonconvex regularizer speeds up low-rank matrix completion.
Paper develops a new weighted low-rank matrix approximation technique.
This paper concerns a fundamental class of convex matrix optimization problems. It presents the first algorithm that uses optimal storage and provably computes a low-rank approximation of a solution. In particular, when all solutions have low rank, the algorithm converges to a solution. This algorithm, SketchyCGM, modi…
Equivalent formulations for low-rank matrix optimization are proven.
Robust PCA is a widely used statistical procedure to recover a underlying low-rank matrix with grossly corrupted observations. This work considers the problem of robust PCA as a nonconvex optimization problem on the manifold of low-rank matrices, and proposes two algorithms (for two versions of retractions) based on ma…
We study the convergence of a variant of distributed gradient descent (DGD) on a distributed low-rank matrix approximation problem wherein some optimization variables are used for consensus (as in classical DGD) and some optimization variables appear only locally at a single node in the network. We term the resulting a…
This paper considers the problem of estimating a low-rank matrix from the observation of all or a subset of its entries in the presence of Poisson noise. When we observe all entries, this is a problem of matrix denoising; when we observe only a subset of the entries, this is a problem of matrix completion. In both case…
Paper proposes fast, robust methods for low-rank matrix recovery.
Efficiently implements MEG for low-rank matrix optimization problems.
We study the problem of estimating low-rank matrices from linear measurements (a.k.a., matrix sensing) through nonconvex optimization. We propose an efficient stochastic variance reduced gradient descent algorithm to solve a nonconvex optimization problem of matrix sensing. Our algorithm is applicable to both noisy and…
A new method for 1-bit matrix completion that is faster and more accurate.
This paper addresses the problem of low-rank distance matrix completion. This problem amounts to recover the missing entries of a distance matrix when the dimension of the data embedding space is possibly unknown but small compared to the number of considered data points. The focus is on high-dimensional problems. We r…
We revisit the use of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) for solving convex optimization problems that serve as highly popular convex relaxations for many important low-rank matrix recovery problems such as \textit{matrix completion}, \textit{phase retrieval}, and more. The computational limitation of applying SGD to so…
Paper proposes a new method to separate low rank and sparse matrices without bias.
Paper explores statistical and computational limits of estimating low-rank Gaussian mixtures.
We propose a generic framework based on a new stochastic variance-reduced gradient descent algorithm for accelerating nonconvex low-rank matrix recovery. Starting from an appropriate initial estimator, our proposed algorithm performs projected gradient descent based on a novel semi-stochastic gradient specifically desi…
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 matrix without any assumptions on the rank-matching, the condition number or eigensp…
New method for online low-rank matrix completion with improved regret.
New framework explains why nonconvex methods work well in low-rank matrix estimation.
ScaledGD improves gradient descent for ill-conditioned low-rank matrix estimation.
A low-rank tensor model simplifies multi-dimensional Markov chains.
The truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) of the measurement matrix is the optimal solution to the_representation_ problem of how to best approximate a noisy measurement matrix using a low-rank matrix. Here, we consider the (unobservable)_denoising_ problem of how to best approximate a low-rank signal matrix bur…
Gradient descent with small random init mimics spectral methods for low-rank matrix recovery.
New method decomposes corrupted data matrices into sparse and low-rank components.
Matrix completion is a modern missing data problem where both the missing structure and the underlying parameter are high dimensional. Although missing structure is a key component to any missing data problems, existing matrix completion methods often assume a simple uniform missing mechanism. In this work, we study ma…
Efficient algorithm for Hadamard decomposition of matrices.
In this paper we develop a new framework that captures the common landscape underlying the common non-convex low-rank matrix problems including matrix sensing, matrix completion and robust PCA. In particular, we show for all above problems (including asymmetric cases): 1) all local minima are also globally optimal; 2) …
New algorithm for weighted low rank approximation with provable guarantees.
Study the distribution for low-rank matrix learning, improving inference methods.
Given the superposition of a low-rank matrix plus the product of a known fat compression matrix times a sparse matrix, the goal of this paper is to establish deterministic conditions under which exact recovery of the low-rank and sparse components becomes possible. This fundamental identifiability issue arises with tra…
Paper analyzes noisy low-rank matrix optimization, improving RIP bounds and convergence rates.
Solves weakly supervised regression using low-rank approximations and manifold regularization.
The matrix completion problem consists of finding or approximating a low-rank matrix based on a few samples of this matrix. We propose a new algorithm for matrix completion that minimizes the least-square distance on the sampling set over the Riemannian manifold of fixed-rank matrices. The algorithm is an adaptation of…
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…
We study the estimation of the latent variable Gaussian graphical model (LVGGM), where the precision matrix is the superposition of a sparse matrix and a low-rank matrix. In order to speed up the estimation of the sparse plus low-rank components, we propose a sparsity constrained maximum likelihood estimator based on m…
We solve robust regression and matrix completion problems with sparse and low-rank models.
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 matrix completion in various fields such as the financial market and the low-ra…
We address the problem of minimizing a convex function over the space of large matrices with low rank. While this optimization problem is hard in general, we propose an efficient greedy algorithm and derive its formal approximation guarantees. Each iteration of the algorithm involves (approximately) finding the left an…
Gradient descent solves asymmetric low-rank matrix factorization efficiently.
Scaled gradient descent improves matrix recovery for ill-conditioned matrices with optimal sampling complexity.
Paper tackles matrix estimation under arbitrary noise, achieving minimax optimality.
Matrix completion works well for smooth non-linear structures, even without low-rank assumptions.
Paper proposes a new method to improve clustering ensemble performance.