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Poster
Efficient Structured Matrix Rank Minimization
Adams Wei Yu · Wanli Ma · Yaoliang Yu · Jaime Carbonell · Suvrit Sra

Wed Dec 10 04:00 PM -- 08:59 PM (PST) @ Level 2, room 210D

We study the problem of finding structured low-rank matrices using nuclear norm regularization where the structure is encoded by a linear map. In contrast to most known approaches for linearly structured rank minimization, we do not (a) use the full SVD; nor (b) resort to augmented Lagrangian techniques; nor (c) solve linear systems per iteration. Instead, we formulate the problem differently so that it is amenable to a generalized conditional gradient method, which results in a practical improvement with low per iteration computational cost. Numerical results show that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art competitors in terms of running time, while effectively recovering low rank solutions in stochastic system realization and spectral compressed sensing problems.

Author Information

Adams Wei Yu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Wanli Ma (Carnegie Mellon University)
Yaoliang Yu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jaime Carbonell (CMU)
Suvrit Sra (MIT)

Suvrit Sra is a faculty member within the EECS department at MIT, where he is also a core faculty member of IDSS, LIDS, MIT-ML Group, as well as the statistics and data science center. His research spans topics in optimization, matrix theory, differential geometry, and probability theory, which he connects with machine learning --- a key focus of his research is on the theme "Optimization for Machine Learning” (http://opt-ml.org)

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