Recently theoretical guarantees have been obtained for matrix completion in the non-uniform sampling regime. In particular, if the sampling distribution aligns with the underlying matrix's leverage scores, then with high probability nuclear norm minimization will exactly recover the low rank matrix. In this article, we…
This paper deals with the design of a sensing matrix along with a sparse recovery algorithm by utilizing the probability-based prior information for compressed sensing system. With the knowledge of the probability for each atom of the dictionary being used, a diagonal weighted matrix is obtained and then the sensing ma…
New method recovers signals from compressed measurements using generative networks with contractive layers.
problem Signal recovery from compressed measurements with generative network priors.
method Developed a new matrix concentration inequality (R2WDC) to relax expansivity conditions for generative networks.
result Signals in the range of a Gaussian generative network can be recovered from few linear measurements with contractive layers.
The graph-based semi-supervised label propagation algorithm has delivered impressive classification results. However, the estimated soft labels typically contain mixed signs and noise, which cause inaccurate predictions due to the lack of suitable constraints. Moreover, available methods typically calculate the weights…
Study reveals how attention helps in signal recovery from sequence models using random matrix theory.
problem Signal recovery from sequence models with attention mechanisms.
method Analysis of sample covariance matrices constructed from pooled sequence representations with attention weights.
result Optimal attention weights maximize signal-to-noise ratio and improve signal recovery.
Low-rank matrix factorizations arise in a wide variety of applications -- including recommendation systems, topic models, and source separation, to name just a few. In these and many other applications, it has been widely noted that by incorporating temporal information and allowing for the possibility of time-varying …
As surrogate functions of L0-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…
DCCNNs reduce computational overhead and ambiguity in convolutional neural networks.
problem Reducing computational overhead and ambiguity in convolutional neural networks.
method Introducing a primal learning problem and constructing a dual convex training program, using Fenchel conjugates and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions.
result Eliminates ambiguity and reduces computational overhead in constructing a large kernel matrix.
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.
Study on signal recovery from low-rank matrix with sparse noise.
problem Inference of a rank-one signal in the presence of sparse noise.
method Replica method from statistical physics, recursive distributional equations, population dynamics algorithm.
result Critical signal strength for recovery via top eigenvector identified.
A matrix network is a family of matrices, with relatedness modeled by a weighted graph. We consider the task of completing a partially observed matrix network. We assume a novel sampling scheme where a fraction of matrices might be completely unobserved. How can we recover the entire matrix network from incomplete obse…
Many applications require recovering a ground truth low-rank matrix from noisy observations of the entries, which in practice is typically formulated as a weighted low-rank approximation problem and solved by non-convex optimization heuristics such as alternating minimization. In this paper, we provide provable recover…
A hierarchical model shows how scaling laws emerge from sequential feature recovery.
problem Emergence of scaling laws from feature learning in multi-layer networks.
method Layer-wise spectral algorithm adapted to compositional structure, sequential feature detection.
result Sequential detection of latent features, leading to explicit power-law decay of prediction error.
Algorithm learns weight matrix from single trajectory of nonlinear dynamical system.
problem Learning weight matrix from a single trajectory of nonlinear dynamical system.
method Algorithm uses global stability and well-conditioned covariance to recover weight matrix.
result Algorithm recovers weight matrix with optimal sample complexity and linear running time.
In this paper, we investigate the recovery of a sparse weight vector (parameters vector) from a set of noisy linear combinations. However, only partial information about the matrix representing the linear combinations is available. Assuming a low-rank structure for the matrix, one natural solution would be to first app…
Flat minima lead to better generalization in low-rank matrix recovery models.
problem Understanding why flat minima generalize well in overparameterized models.
method Analysis of overparameterized matrix and bilinear sensing, robust PCA, covariance matrix estimation, and neural networks with quadratic activation functions.
result Flat minima, measured by the trace of the Hessian, exactly recover the ground truth in low-rank matrix recovery models under standard statistical assumptions.
New coherence parameter for GNNs with Fourier measurements improves signal recovery.
problem Characterizing generative compressed sensing with Fourier measurements.
method Subspace counting arguments and high-dimensional probability theory.
result First known restricted isometry guarantee for generative compressed sensing with subsampled isometries.
Matrix completion, i.e., the exact and provable recovery of a low-rank matrix from a small subset of its elements, is currently only known to be possible if the matrix satisfies a restrictive structural constraint---known as {\em incoherence}---on its row and column spaces. In these cases, the subset of elements is sam…
Study improves model robustness in noisy datasets.
problem Instance-specific label noise in robust classification tasks.
method Coordinated Sparse Recovery (CSR) method introduces a collaboration matrix and confidence weights to reduce generalization error.
result CSR and CSR+ significantly reduce generalization error compared to existing methods.
This paper considers the recovery of a low-rank matrix from an observed version that simultaneously contains both (a) erasures: most entries are not observed, and (b) errors: values at a constant fraction of (unknown) locations are arbitrarily corrupted. We provide a new unified performance guarantee on when the natura…
WARPd method solves inverse problems with approximate sharpness conditions.
problem Reconstruction of signals from undersampled and noisy measurements.
method First-order method based on primal-dual iterations with restart-reweight scheme.
result WARPd achieves stable linear convergence under generic approximate sharpness condition.
Non-negative matrix factorization is a popular tool for decomposing data into feature and weight matrices under non-negativity constraints. It enjoys practical success but is poorly understood theoretically. This paper proposes an algorithm that alternates between decoding the weights and updating the features, and sho…
Sign-RIP improves robust low-rank matrix recovery by preserving norms even with corrupted measurements.
problem Robust low-rank matrix recovery in the presence of corrupted measurements.
method Proposed Sign-RIP, a robust restricted isometry property.
result Sign-RIP guarantees uniform convergence of subdifferentials in robust low-rank matrix recovery.
Study reveals efficient recovery of multi-modal signals via Bayesian methods and sequential learning.
problem Recovering multiple high-dimensional signals from correlated modalities.
method Bayesian Approximate Message Passing and Sequential Curriculum Learning.
result Sequential learning strategy optimally recovers weak signals in multi-modal settings.
HSNLD solves robust Hankel recovery efficiently and robustly.
problem Robust Hankel recovery of sparse outliers and missing entries.
method Hankel Structured Newton-Like Descent (HSNLD) algorithm.
result HSNLD achieves linear convergence independent of the condition number.
Identifying components and estimating mixing weights in unlabeled finite mixtures under marginal independence.
problem Identifying components and estimating mixing weights in unlabeled finite mixtures.
method Proving structural results and extending them to observable mixtures.
result Identifying components and estimating mixing weights under marginal independence.
Develops PRPCA for smooth image recovery combining low-rank and smoothness.
problem Image matrix recovery under low-rank and smoothness assumptions.
method Projected Robust PCA (PRPCA) framework combining low-rank and smoothness.
result Explicit statistical guarantees for PRPCA, reducing matrix dimensionality.
Improved stability for matrix recovery from rank-one measurements.
problem Phase retrieval problem of recovering rank-one positive semidefinite matrices.
method Developed a smoothing Newton method based on Bures-Wasserstein gradient descent.
result Superlinear convergence with rigorous guarantees and stable implementation.
The study reveals the spectral structure of attention layers and its implications for generalization.
problem Understanding the spectral structure and generalization of trained attention layers.
method Empirical risk minimization in a single-head tied-attention layer, using random matrix theory, spin-glass theory, and approximate message passing.
result Exact high-dimensional characterization of training and test error, interpolation and recovery thresholds, and spectrum of the key and query matrices.
Paper explores exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs using Gaussian and exponential distributions.
problem Exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs with Gaussian and exponential distributions.
method Introduces a new semi-metric to describe conditions for exact recovery and analyzes conditions for both complete and incomplete graphs.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery are asymptotically tight and applicable to both complete and incomplete graphs.
Low-rank matrix recovery has found many applications in science and engineering such as machine learning, signal processing, collaborative filtering, system identification, and Euclidean embedding. But the low-rank matrix recovery problem is an NP hard problem and thus challenging. A commonly used heuristic approach is…
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.
Guarantees sparse recovery for neural networks with iterative hard thresholding.
problem Recovering sparse network weights in neural networks.
method Structural properties of sparse network weights and iterative hard thresholding algorithm.
result Simple iterative hard thresholding algorithm recovers sparse network weights exactly using linear memory.
This work studies the Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis (TRPCA) problem, which aims to exactly recover the low-rank and sparse components from their sum. Our model is motivated by the recently proposed linear transforms based tensor-tensor product and tensor SVD. We define a new transforms depended tensor rank…
New method recovers matrix column space with active sampling for better results.
problem Recovering column space of partially observed matrices with limited data.
method Alternating minimization with active sampling strategy.
result Active sampling improves convergence to true column space with higher probability.
Study shows generative priors improve rank-one matrix recovery with optimal sample complexity.
problem Recovering a rank-one signal matrix from noisy data with additional prior information.
method Analysis of a nonlinear least squares objective with a favorable global optimization landscape.
result Established optimal sample complexity for generative priors in rank-one matrix recovery.
Paper recovers multi-subspace matrices from permuted data.
problem Recovering a multi-subspace matrix from permuted data with corrupted columns.
method Four-stage algorithm pipeline: outlier identification, subspace reconstruction, outlier classification, unsupervised sensing.
result The pipeline provides theoretical guarantees for reliable multi-subspace matrix recovery.
StrTransformer recovers sources without labels by optimizing latent matrices and enforcing structural constraints.
problem Unsupervised blind source recovery in signal processing.
method Source-wise structured Transformer framework with latent source matrix optimization, structural regularization, and branch-specific weights.
result StrTransformer learns distinct temporal-scale structures and recovers source-aligned latent trajectories.
New algorithm recovers matrices with unknown correspondences.
problem Recovering matrices from observations with unknown correspondences.
method Solves a nuclear norm minimization problem via proximal gradient with a Max-Oracle.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance and high accuracy in recovering ground-truth correspondences.
We introduce a two step algorithm with theoretical guarantees to recover a jointly sparse and low-rank matrix from undersampled measurements of its columns. The algorithm first estimates the row subspace of the matrix using a set of common measurements of the columns. In the second step, the subspace aware recovery of …
Study generalizes matrix completion with side info in low noise settings.
problem Matrix completion with side information in low noise conditions.
method Inductive matrix completion with i.i.d. subgaussian noise, uniform sampling, and side information.
result Generalization bounds with noise scaling, convergence to zero, and logarithmic dependence on matrix size.
New method robust to semi-random sparse recovery, nearly-linear time.
problem Brittleness of fast sparse recovery algorithms under generative model changes.
method Designing a new iterative method robust to semi-random model.
result Proves robustness of new method to semi-random generative models.
We consider the dictionary learning problem, where the aim is to model the given data as a linear combination of a few columns of a matrix known as a dictionary, where the sparse weights forming the linear combination are known as coefficients. Since the dictionary and coefficients, parameterizing the linear model are …
Sharp threshold found for aligning Gaussian-weighted graphs.
problem Reconstructing planted permutations in Gaussian-weighted graphs.
method Analysis of MAP estimator and second moment method.
result Sharp information-theoretic threshold for exact recovery.
Gradient descent recovers low-rank matrices from corrupted measurements with double over-parameterization.
problem Robust recovery of low-rank matrices from grossly corrupted measurements.
method Gradient descent with discrepant learning rates for double over-parameterized models.
result Gradient descent with discrepant learning rates provably recovers the underlying matrix without prior knowledge on rank or sparsity.
Simplifies solving noisy SDPs for low rank matrix recovery problems.
problem Solving SDPs with noisy data for low rank matrix recovery problems.
method Identifies conditions called simplicity to limit error in noisy SDP solutions.
result Simple SDPs can be efficiently solved and their approximate solutions trusted.
Improves sparse recovery with non-linear Fourier features.
problem Sparse recovery challenges with non-linear Fourier features.
method Characterizes sufficient data points for perfect recovery.
result Sufficient data points depend on kernel matrix.
New method detects communities in complex hypergraphs, matching theoretical limits.
problem Detecting communities in non-uniform hypergraphs with varying hyperedge sizes.
method Developed a spectral theory for weighted non-backtracking operators on non-uniform hypergraphs.
result Achieved the Kesten-Stigum bound for weak recovery in a general class of non-uniform HSBMs.