Title
Nearly Optimal Robust Matrix Completion.
Abstract
In this paper, we consider the problem of Robust Matrix Completion (RMC) where the goal is to recover a low-rank matrix by observing a small number of its entries out of which a few can be arbitrarily corrupted. We propose a simple projected gradient descent method to estimate the low-rank matrix that alternately performs a projected gradient descent step and cleans up a few of the corrupted entries using hard-thresholding. Our algorithm solves RMC using nearly optimal number of observations as well as nearly optimal number of corruptions. Our result also implies significant improvement over the existing time complexity bounds for the low-rank matrix completion problem. Finally, an application of our result to the robust PCA problem (low-rank+sparse matrix separation) leads to nearly linear time (in matrix dimensions) algorithm for the same; existing state-of-the-art methods require quadratic time. Our empirical results corroborate our theoretical results and show that even for moderate sized problems, our method for robust PCA is an an order of magnitude faster than the existing methods.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
ICML
Small number,Gradient descent,Mathematical optimization,Matrix completion,Matrix (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Time complexity,Order of magnitude,Sparse matrix,Mathematics,Machine learning
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri1174.51
Kartik Gupta2111.22
Prateek Jain368132.57