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48 results for low-rank matrix completion

Matrix completion is a problem that arises in many data-analysis settings where the input consists of a partially-observed matrix (e.g., recommender systems, traffic matrix analysis etc.). Classical approaches to matrix completion assume that the input partially-observed matrix is low rank. The success of these methods…

2017-04-30abs ↗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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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…

2015-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

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 present a novel algebraic combinatorial view on low-rank matrix completion based on studying relations between a few entries with tools from algebraic geometry and matroid theory. The intrinsic locality of the approach allows for the treatment of single entries in a closed theoretical and practical framework. More s…

2012-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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…

2013-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

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.

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…

2013-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Study compares LRMC algorithms under dependent sampling in various applications.

problem Recovering missing entries in partially observed low-rank matrices with dependent sampling.
method Various LRMC algorithms tested under dependent sampling in different contexts.
result Performance differences among LRMC algorithms under dependent sampling.

Study nonconvex matrix completion for low-rank approximation without rank assumptions.

problem Low-rank approximation of positive semidefinite matrices from partial entries.
method Nonconvex optimization, local-minimum analysis, no spurious local minima.
result Improved sampling rate for nonconvex matrix completion with no spurious local minima.

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.

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…

2014-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method solves robust matrix completion using nonlinear equations.

problem Recover low rank and sparse matrices from incomplete observations.
method Transforms problem into solving a system of nonlinear equations, then uses the alternative direction method.
result Algorithm converges linearly to the true solution under proper assumptions.

The paper completes matrices from non-uniformly sampled entries, especially when columns are randomly selected and fully observed.

problem Matrix completion from non-uniformly sampled entries, including fully and partially observed columns.
method First, recover the column space from fully observed columns. Then, for each partially observed column, find a vector in the recovered column space with the observed entries. For low-rank matrices, recover them from Ω(rnlnn)Ω(rn\ln n) entries.
result The algorithm can exactly recover a low-rank matrix from merely Ω(rnlnn)Ω(rn\ln n) entries.

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.

Proposes a new tensor grid method for image completion.

problem Image completion from missing data.
method Low-rank tensor grid with two-stage density matrix renormalization group initialization and alternating least squares factorization.
result The proposed tensor grid method outperforms existing methods in image recovery accuracy.

SGD with mini-batches can solve convex low-rank matrix problems efficiently.

problem Solving large-scale convex low-rank matrix problems efficiently.
method Stochastic Gradient Descent with mini-batches and low-rank projections.
result SGD with mini-batches produces low-rank iterates with high probability.

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.

Paper tackles clipped matrix recovery from scientific areas with theoretical and practical methods.

problem Recovering low-rank matrices from clipped observations in scientific areas.
method Trace-norm minimization algorithm and squared hinge loss with a novel regularization term.
result Theoretical guarantee and practical algorithms for exact recovery of clipped matrix completion.

Matrix completion works well for smooth non-linear structures, even without low-rank assumptions.

problem Matrix completion for smooth non-linear structures.
method Nuclear-norm penalization for matrices lying in a low-dimensional non-linear manifold.
result Nuclear-norm penalization is minimax rate optimal for recovering smooth non-linear matrices with missing data.

New guarantees for matrix completion from any deterministic sampling patterns.

problem Proving guarantees for low-rank matrix completion from non-random sampling schemes.
method Introduced a graph with observed entries as edges to analyze the performance of constrained nuclear norm minimization algorithm.
result The algorithm can successfully complete the matrix if the observation graph is well-connected and has similar node degrees.

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.