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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New method normalizes matrix features for robust low-rank approximation.
problem Robust feature normalization for low-rank matrix approximation.
method Learn quantile normalization operators jointly with matrix factorization.
result Improves quality of low-rank representation of data.
Paper tackles low-rank matrix recovery with KL property and DC reformulation.
problem Low-rank matrix recovery with coarse rank estimation.
method Adds ℓ2,0-norm and balanced terms to factorized loss function; establishes KL property and DC reformulations. result Establishes KL property of exponent 1/2 for the composite function and its global minimizers. 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.
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…
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 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.
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.
Gradient flow with infinitesimal initialization converges to Greedy Low-Rank Learning for matrix factorization.
problem Understanding implicit regularization in gradient descent for matrix factorization.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of gradient flow with infinitesimal initialization and Greedy Low-Rank Learning.
result Gradient flow with infinitesimal initialization is mathematically equivalent to Greedy Low-Rank Learning for depth-2 matrix factorization under reasonable assumptions.
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.
Introduces nondecreasing rank for matrices and tensors, developing methods and applications.
problem Finding low-rank approximations for matrices and tensors with monotonic constraints.
method Developed a variant of hierarchical alternating least squares algorithm for finding low ND rank approximations.
result Low ND rank factorizations can be found and interpreted for real-world datasets.
Matrix factorization is a well-studied task in machine learning for compactly representing large, noisy data. In our approach, instead of using the traditional concept of matrix rank, we define a new notion of link-rank based on a non-linear link function used within factorization. In particular, by applying the round …
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…
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.
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.
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. Study robust recovery of low-rank matrices from corrupted measurements without rank prior.
problem Robust recovery of low-rank matrices from corrupted Gaussian measurements with unknown rank.
method Subgradient method with diminishing stepsizes for nonconvex nonsmooth problem.
result Subgradient method converges to exact low-rank solution at sublinear rate under RDPP condition.
Extends MMF to nonsymmetric matrices for hierarchical structure.
problem Capturing hierarchical structure in nonsymmetric matrices.
method Multiresolution Matrix Factorization (MMF) extended to nonsymmetric matrices.
result Effective for matrix compression tasks, outperforming low-rank methods.
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.
Unified framework for nonconvex matrix completion with linearly parameterized factors.
problem Matrix completion with improved accuracy using linearly parameterized factors.
method Unified nonconvex optimization framework with Correlated Parametric Factorization condition.
result Uniform upper bounds for low-rank estimation at any local minimum.
Factor analysis, a classical multivariate statistical technique is popularly used as a fundamental tool for dimensionality reduction in statistics, econometrics and data science. Estimation is often carried out via the Maximum Likelihood (ML) principle, which seeks to maximize the likelihood under the assumption that t…
Gradient descent achieves exact linear convergence rate for symmetric matrix completion.
problem Low-rank symmetric matrix completion using gradient descent.
method Local analysis of gradient descent for symmetric matrices without additional assumptions.
result Closed-form expression of exact linear convergence rate matches practice.
New nonconvex regularizer speeds up low-rank matrix completion.
problem Low-rank matrix completion with good theoretical and empirical performance.
method Proposes a new nonconvex regularizer with adaptive shrinkage, scalable, and fast optimization.
result Proposed method achieves state-of-the-art recovery performance and is the fastest.
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. 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…
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) …
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Matrix factorization is a popular approach to solving matrix estimation problems based on partial observations. Existing matrix factorization is based on least squares and aims to yield a low-rank matrix to interpret the conditional sample means given the observations. However, in many real applications with skewed and…
The paper proposes methods for predicting missing values in mixed data matrices.
problem Matrix completion for mixed data types (continuous, binary, ordinal).
method Generalized latent factor models for low-rank matrix estimation with entrywise consistency.
result Tight probabilistic error bounds for the proposed estimators.
In this article, we derive a Bayesian model to learning the sparse and low rank PARAFAC decomposition for the observed tensor with missing values via the elastic net, with property to find the true rank and sparse factor matrix which is robust to the noise. We formulate efficient block coordinate descent algorithm and …
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…
We consider whether algorithmic choices in over-parameterized linear matrix factorization introduce implicit regularization. We focus on noiseless matrix sensing over rank-r positive semi-definite (PSD) matrices in Rn×n, with a sensing mechanism that satisfies restricted isometry properties (RIP)…
We consider the problem of noisy matrix completion, in which the goal is to reconstruct a structured matrix whose entries are partially observed in noise. Standard approaches to this underdetermined inverse problem are based on assuming that the underlying matrix has low rank, or is well-approximated by a low rank matr…
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.
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.
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…