Nonconvex optimization meets low-rank matrix factorization: An overview

Y Chi, YM Lu, Y Chen - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Substantial progress has been made recently on develo** provably accurate and efficient
algorithms for low-rank matrix factorization via nonconvex optimization. While conventional …

An overview of low-rank matrix recovery from incomplete observations

MA Davenport, J Romberg - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-rank matrices play a fundamental role in modeling and computational methods for
signal processing and machine learning. In many applications where low-rank matrices …

Exploiting shared representations for personalized federated learning

L Collins, H Hassani, A Mokhtari… - … on machine learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Deep neural networks have shown the ability to extract universal feature representations
from data such as images and text that have been useful for a variety of learning tasks …

Implicit regularization in deep matrix factorization

S Arora, N Cohen, W Hu, Y Luo - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Efforts to understand the generalization mystery in deep learning have led to the belief that
gradient-based optimization induces a form of implicit regularization, a bias towards models …

Spectral methods for data science: A statistical perspective

Y Chen, Y Chi, J Fan, C Ma - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Spectral methods have emerged as a simple yet surprisingly effective approach for
extracting information from massive, noisy and incomplete data. In a nutshell, spectral …

Transformers as support vector machines

DA Tarzanagh, Y Li, C Thrampoulidis… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Since its inception in" Attention Is All You Need", transformer architecture has led to
revolutionary advancements in NLP. The attention layer within the transformer admits a …

Matrix completion has no spurious local minimum

R Ge, JD Lee, T Ma - Advances in neural information …, 2016 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Matrix completion is a basic machine learning problem that has wide applications,
especially in collaborative filtering and recommender systems. Simple non-convex …

No spurious local minima in nonconvex low rank problems: A unified geometric analysis

R Ge, C **, Y Zheng - International Conference on Machine …, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper we develop a new framework that captures the common landscape underlying
the common non-convex low-rank matrix problems including matrix sensing, matrix …

A geometric analysis of phase retrieval

J Sun, Q Qu, J Wright - Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2018 - Springer
Can we recover a complex signal from its Fourier magnitudes? More generally, given a set
of m measurements, y_k=\left| a _k^* x\right| yk= ak∗ x for k= 1, ..., mk= 1,…, m, is it possible …

Algorithmic regularization in over-parameterized matrix sensing and neural networks with quadratic activations

Y Li, T Ma, H Zhang - Conference On Learning Theory, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We show that the gradient descent algorithm provides an implicit regularization effect in the
learning of over-parameterized matrix factorization models and one-hidden-layer neural …