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48 results for Sparse and Low-Rank

Paper proposes a new method to separate low rank and sparse matrices without bias.

problem Recovering low rank and sparse matrices from measurements.
method Uses nonconvex regularizers and alternating proximal gradient descent.
result Error bounds for the algorithm applied to sparse optimization, matrix completion, and robust PCA.

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.

Improved GCNs for non-sparse graphs with low-rank filters.

problem Training and evaluation of GCNs on large non-sparse graphs is computationally expensive.
method Introduced low-rank filters and a reduced-order GCN architecture.
result Significant runtime acceleration and improved accuracy achieved.

New nonconvex regularizers improve low-rank matrix recovery efficiency and accuracy.

problem Efficiently recover low-rank matrices from incomplete data.
method Factor group-sparse regularization, related to Schatten-p norms.
result Improved generalization error bounds for Schatten-p norms as p decreases.

We consider the problem of modeling multivariate time series with parsimonious dynamical models which can be represented as sparse dynamic Bayesian networks with few latent nodes. This structure translates into a sparse plus low rank model. In this paper, we propose a Gaussian regression approach to identify such a mod…

2015-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves robust low-rank matrix completion for computer vision.

problem Robust low-rank matrix completion for partially observed data.
method Formulated as a nonsmooth Riemannian optimization problem over Grassmann manifold, solved with an alternating manifold proximal gradient continuation method.
result Demonstrated advantages over existing approaches in background extraction from surveillance videos.

RNNs solve modular addition tasks using low rank and sparse Fourier structures.

problem Solving modular addition tasks with recurrent neural networks.
method Identified low rank structures and sparse Fourier representations in RNN weights.
result RNNs robust to removing individual frequencies but degrade with more ablation.

3BASiL-TM decomposes LLMs into sparse and low-rank matrices for efficient compression.

problem Efficiently compressing large language models without significant performance loss.
method 3-Block ADMM method and transformer-matching refinement step for sparse plus low-rank decomposition.
result 3BASiL-TM reduces perplexity gap by over 30% and speeds up compression by 2.5x.

A new method models user-specific parameters as a low-rank plus sparse component for efficient personalization.

problem Efficient personalization of machine learning models for individual users.
method Meta-learning approach that models network weights as a sum of low-rank and sparse components.
result The proposed method, AMHT-LRS, achieves nearly optimal sample complexity for estimating the low-rank and sparse components.

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 conditions. Based on projected gradient descent and the double thresholding operator, …

2017-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Low-rank framework for task-specific LLM ranking from sparse comparisons.

problem Challenges in reliable task-specific ranking of LLMs under sparse, imbalanced comparisons.
method Low-rank modeling of task-by-model ability matrix, max-norm accurate estimator, task-wise top-K recovery guarantees, uncertainty quantification framework.
result Improves sample efficiency and produces tighter, better-calibrated ranking certificates.

New model encodes multivariate signals more efficiently with sparsity and low-rank constraints.

problem Efficiently encoding multivariate signals with sparsity and low-rank constraints.
method Multivariate convolutional sparse coding with tensor algebra, CP decomposition, and alternating optimization.
result Proves model closely related to Kruskal tensor regression problem with theoretical guarantees.

New method decomposes corrupted data matrices into sparse and low-rank components.

problem Decomposing corrupted data matrices into sparse and low-rank components.
method Discrete optimization approach with alternating minimization, semidefinite relaxation, and branch-and-bound algorithm.
result High-quality solutions and meaningful bounds for SLR problems.

Unified framework HASSLE-free decomposes large model weights into sparse and low-rank components.

problem Efficiently compress large foundation models to reduce inference costs.
method Designs a unified framework for sparse plus low-rank matrix decomposition with a local layer-wise reconstruction error objective.
result HASSLE-free framework significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in compression and evaluation benchmarks.

New method improves tensor completion by selectively preserving important elements.

problem Recovering corrupted high-dimensional tensor data with missing entries and noise.
method Tensor weighted correlated total variation (TWCTV) regularizer with ADMM algorithm.
result Superior performance in image completion, denoising, and background subtraction tasks.

This paper aims at achieving a simultaneously sparse and low-rank estimator from the semidefinite population covariance matrices. We first benefit from a convex optimization which develops l1l_1-norm penalty to encourage the sparsity and nuclear norm to favor the low-rank property. For the proposed estimator, we then p…

2014-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Low-rank tensor completion recovers missing entries based on different tensor decompositions. Due to its outstanding performance in exploiting some higher-order data structure, low rank tensor ring has been applied in tensor completion. To further deal with its sensitivity to sparse component as it does in tensor princ…

2019-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

New guarantees for recovering matrices as low-rank plus sparse from fewer measurements.

problem Recovering matrices as the sum of a low-rank and sparse matrix from a limited number of measurements.
method Developed guarantees for recovery of low-rank plus sparse matrices from O(r(m+nr)+s)log(mn/s)\mathcal{O}(r(m+n-r)+s)\log(mn/s) measurements, using semidefinite programming and gradient descent algorithms.
result Guarantees for recovery of low-rank plus sparse matrices from fewer measurements than previously possible.

We address the problem of estimating a sparse low-rank matrix from its noisy observation. We propose an objective function consisting of a data-fidelity term and two parameterized non-convex penalty functions. Further, we show how to set the parameters of the non-convex penalty functions, in order to ensure that the ob…

2016-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Various problems in data analysis and statistical genetics call for recovery of a column-sparse, low-rank matrix from noisy observations. We propose ReFACTor, a simple variation of the classical Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (TSVD) algorithm. In contrast to previous sparse principal component analysis (PCA) al…

2017-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Recovery of low-rank matrices has recently seen significant activity in many areas of science and engineering, motivated by recent theoretical results for exact reconstruction guarantees and interesting practical applications. A number of methods have been developed for this recovery problem. However, a principled meth…

2011-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for factor analysis using nuclear and 0\ell_0 norms.

problem Finding a low-rank plus sparse decomposition from noisy covariance matrix.
method Formulated an optimization problem with nuclear norm, 0\ell_0 norm, and KL divergence. Used alternating minimization algorithm.
result Algorithm effectively decomposes covariance matrices in synthetic and real datasets.

Paper analyzes robust matrix completion with efficient nonconvex method and leave-one-out analysis.

problem Robust matrix completion with sparse noise.
method Alternates between projected gradient step for low-rank and thresholding step for sparse noise.
result Achieves linear convergence for general thresholding functions.

As surrogate functions of L0L_0-norm, many nonconvex penalty functions have been proposed to enhance the sparse vector recovery. It is easy to extend these nonconvex penalty functions on singular values of a matrix to enhance low-rank matrix recovery. However, different from convex optimization, solving the nonconvex l…

2014-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We solve robust regression and matrix completion problems with sparse and low-rank models.

problem Adversarial contamination and noisy matrix completion in high-dimensional settings.
method Subgaussian statistical learning framework, trace-regression with matrix decomposition, novel Huber-type loss.
result Near-optimal estimation rates for robust regression and matrix completion.

In this paper, we propose a general framework for sparse and low-rank tensor estimation from cubic sketchings. A two-stage non-convex implementation is developed based on sparse tensor decomposition and thresholded gradient descent, which ensures exact recovery in the noiseless case and stable recovery in the noisy cas…

2018-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the problem of prediction for evolving graph data. We formulate the problem as the minimization of a convex objective encouraging sparsity and low-rank of the solution, that reflect natural graph properties. The convex formulation allows to obtain oracle inequalities and efficient solvers. We provide empirical…

2012-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient solver for nonconvex tensor regularization reduces computational cost.

problem Computational inefficiency in extending nonconvex regularization to tensor learning.
method Proximal average algorithm with adaptive momentum, maintaining sparse plus low-rank structure.
result Shows good statistical performance and accuracy on tensor completion problems.

One of the popular approaches for low-rank tensor completion is to use the latent trace norm regularization. However, most existing works in this direction learn a sparse combination of tensors. In this work, we fill this gap by proposing a variant of the latent trace norm that helps in learning a non-sparse combinatio…

2017-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗