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This work further develops the properties of fractional differential forms. In particular, finite dimensional subspaces of fractional form spaces are considered. An inner product, Hodge dual, and covariant derivative are defined. Coordinate transformation rules for integral order forms are also computed. Matrix order f…

2003-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances clustering performance with a novel high-order Laplacian matrix.

problem Limited representation capability and insufficient information exploitation in multi-view spectral clustering.
method Proposes a multi-view spectral clustering algorithm that learns a high-order optimal neighborhood Laplacian matrix.
result Improves clustering performance through enhanced representation capacity of the learned optimal Laplacian matrix.

Active seriation recovers item order from noisy pairwise similarity measurements.

problem Recovering an unknown item ordering from noisy pairwise similarity measurements.
method Proposes an active seriation algorithm that provably recovers the latent ordering with high probability.
result Establishes optimal performance guarantees for successful recovery under a uniform separation condition.

New framework for higher-order singular-value derivatives of rectangular matrices.

problem Challenging to derive higher-order Fréchet derivatives of singular values in real rectangular matrices.
method Using Kato's analytic perturbation theory for self-adjoint operators and embedding rectangular matrices into block self-adjoint operators.
result Closed-form expressions for the nn-th order spectral variations of singular values.

Advanced optimization algorithms such as Newton method and AdaGrad benefit from second order derivative or second order statistics to achieve better descent directions and faster convergence rates. At their heart, such algorithms need to compute the inverse or inverse square root of a matrix whose size is quadratic of …

2018-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new method for sparse covariance Cholesky factor estimation.

problem Estimating sparse covariance matrices for ordered data.
method Matrix loss penalization approach for sparse Cholesky factor estimation.
result The proposed method outperforms existing regression-based approaches in simulations and real data.

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) factorizes a non-negative matrix into product of two non-negative matrices, namely a signal matrix and a mixing matrix. NMF suffers from the scale and ordering ambiguities. Often, the source signals can be monotonous in nature. For example, in source separation problem, the source…

2015-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Predicting unobserved entries of a partially observed matrix has found wide applicability in several areas, such as recommender systems, computational biology, and computer vision. Many scalable methods with rigorous theoretical guarantees have been developed for algorithms where the matrix is factored into low-rank co…

2017-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper optimizes matrix-based Renyi's entropy computation for large datasets.

problem Efficiently calculating matrix-based Renyi's entropy for large-scale applications.
method Develops randomized approximations for matrix-based Renyi's entropy with arbitrary α orders.
result Achieves a significant reduction in time complexity from O(n^3) to O(n^2sm), where s, m << n.

This paper clarifies vine copula structures using graph and matrix representations.

problem Ambiguity in vine copula representations in literature.
method Graph and matrix representations to clarify vine structures, including cherry and chordal sequences.
result A unique matrix representation of vine structures when given a perfect elimination ordering.

Paper shows no spurious local minima in a specific matrix factorization problem.

problem Optimization of 1\ell_1-norm rank-one symmetric matrix factorization.
method Second-order variational analysis to study the landscape of the problem.
result Any second-order stationary point is globally optimal.

In (exploratory) factor analysis, the loading matrix is identified only up to orthogonal rotation. For identifiability, one thus often takes the loading matrix to be lower triangular with positive diagonal entries. In Bayesian inference, a standard practice is then to specify a prior under which the loadings are indepe…

2014-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We extend to the long virtual knot case the constructions first presented by A. Henrich and later generalized by the author to the framed virtual knot case. These consist of three Vassiliev invariants of order one, including a universal one, as well as the notions of a based matrix and a singular based matrix and their…

2016-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New estimator stabilizes higher-order influence functions for stable statistical inference.

problem Numerical instability in estimating inverse population Gram matrix.
method Proposes a new stabilized higher-order estimator without sample splitting.
result Stabilized estimator exhibits more stable performance and similar statistical guarantees.

A popular trick for computing a pairwise co-occurrence matrix is the product of an incidence matrix and its transpose. We present an analog for higher order tuple co-occurrences using the face-splitting product, or alternately known as the transpose Khatri-Rao product. These higher order co-occurrences encode the commo…

2020-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Standard gradient descent methods are susceptible to a range of issues that can impede training, such as high correlations and different scaling in parameter space.These difficulties can be addressed by second-order approaches that apply a pre-conditioning matrix to the gradient to improve convergence. Unfortunately, s…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces a frequency-domain estimator for low-order systems from noisy data.

problem Estimating frequency responses of low-order systems from noisy measurements.
method Uses a quadratic data-fitting term regularized by the nuclear norm of a Loewner matrix, subject to a convex stability constraint.
result Proves a finite-sample error bound and extends it to all frequencies through rational interpolation.

This text investigates relations between two well-known family of algorithms, matrix factorisations and recursive linear filters, by describing a probabilistic model in which approximate inference corresponds to a matrix factorisation algorithm. Using the probabilistic model, we derive a matrix factorisation algorithm …

2015-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new method for selecting regularization parameters in sparse precision matrix estimation.

problem Selecting an appropriate regularization parameter for sparse precision matrix estimation.
method Developed a closed-form matrix-valued regularization parameter based on the sampling distribution of optimality conditions.
result The proposed method achieves comparable estimation accuracy and superior support recovery to cross-validation, with significant runtime improvements.

New method identifies structural parameters without assuming uncorrelated errors.

problem Identifying structural parameters in simultaneous equation models.
method Exploits higher-order cumulant restrictions, not requiring uncorrelated errors.
result Simple diagonality condition on hhth-order cumulants identifies structural parameter matrix.

A new method learns DAGs from Gaussian data without verifying acyclicity.

problem Learning DAGs from Gaussian data without verifying acyclicity.
method Relaxation technique for permutation matrix estimation and cyclic coordinatewise descent for sparse Cholesky factor estimation.
result The method recovers DAGs without verifying acyclicity constraints.

The high-order relations between the content in social media sharing platforms are frequently modeled by a hypergraph. Either hypergraph Laplacian matrix or the adjacency matrix is a big matrix. Randomized algorithms are used for low-rank factorizations in order to approximately decompose and eventually invert such big…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper considers the matrix completion problem. We show that it is not necessary to assume joint incoherence, which is a standard but unintuitive and restrictive condition that is imposed by previous studies. This leads to a sample complexity bound that is order-wise optimal with respect to the incoherence paramete…

2013-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm provably converges to second-order stationary points in NMF.

problem Understanding convergence to local minima in NMF.
method Multiplicative weight update dynamics, concurrent updates, and simplex reduction.
result Provable convergence to second-order stationary points.

In this paper, we introduce and provide a short overview of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). Several aspects of NMF are discussed, namely, the application in hyperspectral imaging, geometry and uniqueness of NMF solutions, complexity, algorithms, and its link with extended formulations of polyhedra. In order to …

2017-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for distributed PCA using matrix β-mean.

problem Efficiently aggregating PCA results across multiple machines with reduced computational overhead.
method Proposes a novel DPCA method that incorporates eigenvalue information using the matrix β-mean.
result The matrix β-mean method improves robustness and stability of eigenvector ordering.

New inequalities for matrix supermartingales converge under various conditions.

problem Convergence and maximal inequalities of supermartingales in positive semidefinite matrices.
method Developed new concentration inequalities for matrix supermartingales.
result New inequalities for matrix supermartingales under different tail conditions.

The paper introduces a new class of multivariate mixtures for actuarial applications.

problem Developing a new class of multivariate mixtures for actuarial calculations.
method Proposed a class of multivariate matrix-exponential affine mixtures with matrix-exponential marginals.
result Explicit calculations of actuarial quantities are possible due to the proposed class's properties.

We introduce a "learning-based" algorithm for the low-rank decomposition problem: given an n×dn \times d matrix AA, and a parameter kk, compute a rank-kk matrix AA' that minimizes the approximation loss AAF\|A-A'\|_F. The algorithm uses a training set of input matrices in order to optimize its performance. Specifical…

2019-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Tutorials on signal processing on higher-order networks like simplicial complexes and hypergraphs.

problem Processing complex data structures with polyadic relationships.
method Introduction to simplicial complexes and hypergraphs, Fourier analysis, signal denoising, interpolation, embeddings, neural networks.
result Multi-relational operators like the Hodge Laplacian for simplicial complexes and tensor representations for hypergraphs.

TOLD++ improves convergence of diffusion models by critically damping the forward transition matrix.

problem Improving the convergence of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models.
method Critically damping the Third-Order Langevin Dynamics (TOLD) forward transition matrix using eigen-analysis.
result TOLD++ converges faster than TOLD, verified on toy and real datasets.