New spectral methods improve matrix estimation in RL with low-rank structure.
problem Estimating matrices with low-rank structure in reinforcement learning.
method Spectral-based matrix estimation approaches.
result Spectral methods efficiently recover singular subspaces and minimize entry-wise error.
Unified framework for nonconvex low-rank matrix estimation using gradient descent.
problem Estimating low-rank matrices in noisy and noiseless settings.
method Gradient descent algorithm applied to nonconvex optimization.
result Unified framework guarantees linear convergence to the unknown low-rank matrix with optimal statistical error.
Novel method for efficient low-rank matrix estimation and bandit algorithms.
problem Low-rank matrix estimation and bandit problems.
method LowPopArt method for low-rank matrix estimation and novel experimental design criterion.
result Improved recovery guarantees and regret bounds for low-rank bandit algorithms.
We present a unified framework for low-rank matrix estimation with nonconvex penalties. We first prove that the proposed estimator attains a faster statistical rate than the traditional low-rank matrix estimator with nuclear norm penalty. Moreover, we rigorously show that under a certain condition on the magnitude of t…
The paper tackles matrix estimation from noisy data, focusing on low-rank matrices.
problem Estimating a low-rank matrix from noisy observations.
method The paper analyzes several estimators, including constrained nuclear-norm minimization, nuclear-norm regularized least squares, and a nonconvex constrained low-rank optimization problem.
result The estimators provide upper error bounds that depend on matrix rank, observed fraction, and matrix sums, and are minimax optimal.
Greedy method improves low rank matrix estimation with new approximation guarantees.
problem Low rank matrix estimation under restricted strong convexity and smoothness.
method Novel greedy algorithm analysis linking to combinatorial optimization.
result Improved approximation guarantees and statistical recovery.
New framework explains why nonconvex methods work well in low-rank matrix estimation.
problem Nonconvex low-rank matrix estimation problems in machine learning.
method Developed a theoretical framework revealing a benign regularizer.
result Nonconvex procedures can behave well due to a disguised convexity.
Most recent results in matrix completion assume that the matrix under consideration is low-rank or that the columns are in a union of low-rank subspaces. In real-world settings, however, the linear structure underlying these models is distorted by a (typically unknown) nonlinear transformation. This paper addresses the…
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.
Paper proposes a method for estimating complex low-rank matrices from phase-only measurements.
problem Estimating complex low-rank matrices from magnitude-only measurements.
method A hierarchical prior model with a Gaussian-Wishart distribution is used to promote low-rankness. A variational EM algorithm is developed to solve the problem.
result The proposed method is less sensitive to initialization and performs well with random initialization.
Unified approach for robust low rank matrix estimation with adversaries.
problem Robust low rank matrix estimation in the presence of adversaries.
method Unified approach combining Huber loss and nuclear norm penalization.
result Sharp estimation error bounds for matrix compressed sensing and completion.
UA-LQE improves value function learning by selectively erasing uncertain entries in Q-matrix.
problem Improving value function learning in complex reinforcement learning tasks.
method Uncertainty-aware low-rank Q-matrix estimation (UA-LQE) algorithm.
result UA-LQE selectively erases uncertain entries in Q-matrix to improve value function approximation.
New method for matrix completion under complex missing data patterns.
problem Matrix completion with complex missing data patterns.
method Estimate the probability matrix of observation via low-rank matrix estimation and use inverse probabilities weighting to complete the target matrix.
result Optimal asymptotic convergence rates for observation probabilities and target matrix estimation.
New model improves matrix completion under noisy conditions.
problem Noisy matrix completion with structured matrices.
method Introduces permutation-rank model, analyzes SVD algorithm.
result Minimax rates equivalent to low-rank model, consistent estimator.
Paper proposes a method to recover rankings from limited comparisons using low-rank matrix completion.
problem Rank aggregation from pairwise comparisons with limited and noisy data.
method Low-rank matrix completion, alternating minimization algorithm, maximum likelihood estimation.
result Improved algorithm performance over state-of-the-art methods.
Estimates low-rank distributional matrices from incomplete samples.
problem Matrix completion for distributional entries with limited observed data.
method Kernel mean embeddings, Tucker rank, functional unfolding operators.
result Effective estimator for distributional matrix completion established.
New algorithms recover low-rank matrices from few noisy projections.
problem Estimating low-rank matrices from rank-one projections with noise.
method Two fast, non-convex algorithms for matrix recovery.
result Proposed algorithms achieve linear convergence and independent sample complexity of condition number.
Survey on efficient methods for estimating low-rank matrices from incomplete data.
problem Estimating low-rank matrices from incomplete data with provable guarantees.
method Convex and nonconvex approaches, including nuclear norm minimization and projected gradient descent.
result Unified overview of recent advances with rigorous performance analysis.
Convex optimization method recovers low-rank matrices from rank-one projections efficiently.
problem Recovering low-rank matrices from limited rank-one projections.
method Unlifted convex optimization with subgradient method.
result The estimator succeeds with high probability if the number of measurements exceeds r2(d1+d2) up to logarithmic factors. Paper finds a lower bound for estimating low-rank matrices in logistic regression.
problem Estimating low-rank coefficient matrices in logistic regression.
method Derives a minimax lower bound on the risk.
result The bound depends on matrix dimensions, rank, and sample size.
Characterizes uncertainty in low-rank matrix completion with noisy data.
problem Uncertainty quantification in low-rank matrix completion with heterogeneous sub-exponential noise.
method Characterizes the distribution of estimated matrix entries under low-rank estimators with heterogeneous sub-exponential noise.
result Explicit formulas for the distribution of estimated matrix entries under Poisson and Binary noise.
Consider a movie recommendation system where apart from the ratings information, side information such as user's age or movie's genre is also available. Unlike standard matrix completion, in this setting one should be able to predict inductively on new users/movies. In this paper, we study the problem of inductive matr…
New algorithm improves low-rank matrix estimation accuracy.
problem Estimating low-rank matrices with noisy entries.
method Approximate Message Passing (AMP) combined with spectral initialization.
result Achieves Bayes-optimal accuracy above the spectral threshold.
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…
The problem of low-rank matrix estimation recently received a lot of attention due to challenging applications. A lot of work has been done on rank-penalized methods and convex relaxation, both on the theoretical and applied sides. However, only a few papers considered Bayesian estimation. In this paper, we review the …
Efficient algorithm estimates low-rank matrices from noisy measurements.
problem Estimating low-rank matrices from noisy linear measurements.
method Stochastic variance-reduced gradient descent algorithm.
result Algorithm converges to the unknown low-rank matrix at a linear rate up to the minimax optimal statistical error.
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.
ReFACTor improves low-rank matrix recovery from noisy data.
problem Recovering low-rank matrices from noisy column-sparse data.
method A simple variation of TSVD, leveraging column-sparsity.
result ReFACTor outperforms TSVD and PCA in various scenarios.
Paper explores statistical and computational limits of estimating low-rank Gaussian mixtures.
problem Estimating low-rank matrix-variate observations with optimal statistical and computational limits.
method Low-rank Gaussian mixture model (LrMM) and minimax lower bounds.
result Minimax optimality of maximum likelihood estimator and spectral aggregation method.
New methods recover best rank-r approximations from few entries.
problem Recovering best rank-r approximations from limited data entries.
method Two agnostic approaches: spectral truncation and projected gradient descent.
result Projected gradient descent yields superior performance.
The paper estimates matrix-valued functions with low rank using penalized estimators.
problem Estimating matrix-valued functions with low rank from incomplete data.
method Innovative nuclear norm penalized local polynomial estimator and bias-reducing kernels.
result Optimal rates of convergence for various matrix norms.
New algorithm speeds up LVGGM estimation by solving nonconvex optimization.
problem Estimating the latent variable Gaussian graphical model with sparse and low-rank components.
method Sparsity constrained maximum likelihood estimator with alternating gradient descent and hard thresholding.
result Our algorithm converges linearly to the optimal components up to statistical precision.
RMCSE improves voltage estimation in low-observability distribution systems.
problem Insufficient measurements in distribution system state estimation.
method Combines matrix completion and power system model, minimizes rank and residual with different weights.
result Robust voltage estimation in low-observability systems without bad data detection.
We develop a flexible framework for low-rank matrix estimation that allows us to transform noise models into regularization schemes via a simple bootstrap algorithm. Effectively, our procedure seeks an autoencoding basis for the observed matrix that is stable with respect to the specified noise model; we call the resul…
New method for robust matrix completion with mixed data types.
problem Recovering a structured low rank matrix with mixed data types.
method Proposes a computationally feasible statistical approach with strong recovery guarantees for mixed data types.
result Strong recovery guarantees for low rank matrix completion with mixed data types.
The paper tackles transfer learning for growing matrix representations, improving estimation accuracy.
problem Structured matrix estimation under growing ambient dimensions and latent representations.
method Proposes a general transfer framework decomposing target parameters into embedded source components, low-rank innovations, and sparse edits. Develops an anchored alternating projection estimator.
result Establishes deterministic error bounds that separate target noise, representation growth, and source estimation error, yielding improved rates.
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…
Improved matrix completion for non-uniformly sampled data.
problem Estimating unobserved entries in a matrix with varying sampling probabilities.
method Developed entry-specific bounds for low-rank matrix completion under structured non-uniform sampling.
result Error bounds for each entry match minimax lower bounds under certain conditions.
A new method for 1-bit matrix completion that is faster and more accurate.
problem Estimating a low-rank matrix from binary observations.
method Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton (MMGN) method.
result MMGN outperforms existing methods in accuracy and speed.
Estimation of low-rank matrices is of significant interest in a range of contemporary applications. In this paper, we introduce a rank-one projection model for low-rank matrix recovery and propose a constrained nuclear norm minimization method for stable recovery of low-rank matrices in the noisy case. The procedure is…
LEARNER improves low-rank matrix estimation using source population data.
problem Improving low-rank matrix estimation in target populations with diverse data sources.
method LEARNER uses similarity in latent spaces between source and target populations to enhance estimation.
result LEARNER often outperforms benchmark methods, especially with higher signal-to-noise ratios in the source population.
Develops methods to construct confidence regions for singular subspaces in low-rank matrix regression.
problem Recovering the singular subspace of a low-rank matrix from noisy measurements.
method Two-step procedure involving de-biasing and empirical singular vector calculation.
result Asymptotically normal joint projection distance for confidence regions of the true singular subspace.
GAME improves matrix completion by considering subgroup-specific latent structures.
problem Heterogeneous data with overlapping categories, smoothing away subgroup-specific variation.
method Group-Aware Matrix Estimation (GAME) with overlapping nuclear-norm penalties.
result GAME outperforms global low-rank estimators in structured missingness regimes.
New algorithm speeds up recovery of low-rank matrices.
problem Nonconvex low-rank matrix recovery problems.
method Stochastic variance-reduced gradient descent with semi-stochastic gradient.
result Linear convergence rate to unknown low-rank matrix.
New method predicts binary matrix entries using empirical Bayes and low-rank structure.
problem Predicting unobserved entries in binary matrices.
method Empirical Bayes method motivated by Efron--Morris estimator, exploiting low-rank structure.
result Superior performance in predictive accuracy, calibration, and efficiency compared to existing methods.
Robust low-rank matrix estimation is a topic of increasing interest, with promising applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to data mining and recommender systems. Recent theoretical results establish the ability of such data models to recover the true underlying low-rank matrix when a large portion o…
We address the collective matrix completion problem of jointly recovering a collection of matrices with shared structure from partial (and potentially noisy) observations. To ensure well--posedness of the problem, we impose a joint low rank structure, wherein each component matrix is low rank and the latent space of th…
This paper sets fundamental limits for rank-one matrix estimation with varying noise levels.
problem Estimating a rank-one matrix from Gaussian observations with different noise levels across blocks.
method Novel reduction from heterogeneous noise to homogeneous noise, proving asymptotic error bounds.
result Asymptotically exact formulas for minimum mean-squared error in estimating rank-one matrix and factors.