arXiv:1312. 0925v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Alternating Minimization is a widely used and empirically successful heuristic for matrix completion and related low-rank optimization problems.
By Moritz Hardt
arXiv:2609. 17048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study nonconvex methods for matrix completion, the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from a subset of its entries.
By Jian-Feng Cai, Xiliang Lu, Juntao You
arXiv:2606. 31390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-rank matrix optimization is often carried out via the Burer-Monteiro (BM) formulation, but choosing the factorization rank $r$ is delicate and can substantially slow optimization.
By Yudong Wei, Liang Zhang, Bingcong Li, Niao He
The paper introduces low‑rank orthogonalization, a technique that exploits the low‑rank nature of gradients in neural network training to perform matrix orthogonalization more efficiently. Building on this, the authors present low‑rank matrix‑signed gradient descent (MSGD) and a low‑rank variant of the Muon optimizer, showing through experiments that low‑rank Muon matches or surpasses vanilla Muon on GPT‑2 and LLaMA pretraining, especially for larger models. Theoretical analysis provides iteration‑complexity bounds for both low‑rank MSGD and low‑rank Muon under heavy‑tailed noise.
By Chuan He, Zhanwang Deng, Zhaosong Lu
arXiv:2606. 04176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study a distributional generalization of the matrix completion problem in which each entry of the target matrix is a probability distribution rather than a scalar.
By Jiayi Wang, Raymond K. W. Wong
arXiv:2406. 10407v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semidefinite programs (SDPs) and their solvers are powerful tools with many applications in machine learning and data science.
By Yufan Huang, David F. Gleich