Matrix Completion

A Scalable Second Order Method for Ill-Conditioned Matrix Completion from Few Samples

We propose an iterative algorithm for low-rank matrix completion that can be interpreted as an iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm, a saddle-escaping smoothing Newton method or a variable metric proximal gradient method applied to a …

Escaping Saddle Points in Ill-Conditioned Matrix Completion with a Scalable Second Order Method

We propose an iterative algorithm for low-rank matrix completion that can be interpreted as both an iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm and a saddle-escaping smoothing Newton method applied to a non-convex rank surrogate objective. …

Understanding and Enhancing Data Recovery Algorithms - From Noise-Blind Sparse Recovery to Reweighted Methods for Low-Rank Matrix Optimization

We prove new results about the robustness of noise-blind decoders for the problem of re- constructing a sparse vector from underdetermined linear measurements. Our results imply provable robustness of equality-constrained l1-minimization for random …