Title
Algebraic Variety Models for High-Rank Matrix Completion.
Abstract
We consider a generalization of low-rank matrix completion to the case where the data belongs to an algebraic variety, i.e. each data point is a solution to a system of polynomial equations. In this case the original matrix is possibly high-rank, but it becomes low-rank after mapping each column to a higher dimensional space of monomial features. Many well-studied extensions of linear models, including affine subspaces and their union, can be described by a variety model. In addition, varieties can be used to model a richer class of nonlinear quadratic and higher degree curves and surfaces. We study the sampling requirements for matrix completion under a variety model with a focus on a union of affine subspaces. We also propose an efficient matrix completion algorithm that minimizes a convex or non-convex surrogate of the rank of the matrix of monomial features. Our algorithm uses the well-known kernel trick to avoid working directly with the high-dimensional monomial matrix. We show the proposed algorithm is able to recover synthetically generated data up to the predicted sampling complexity bounds. The proposed algorithm also outperforms standard low rank matrix completion and subspace clustering techniques in experiments with real data.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
ICML
Rank (linear algebra),Discrete mathematics,Dimension of an algebraic variety,Algebra,Computer science,Algebraic variety
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
4
0.45
References 
Authors
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Greg Ongie1678.18
Rebecca M. Willett265563.51
Robert Nowak37309672.50
Laura Balzano4193.43