A generalized inexact Uzawa method for stable principal component pursuit problem with nonnegative constraints

The problem of recovering the low-rank and sparse components of a matrix is known as the stable principal component pursuit (SPCP) problem. It has found many applications in compressed sensing, image processing, and web data ranking. This paper proposes a generalized inexact Uzawa method for SPCP with nonnegative constraints. The main advantage of our method is that the resulting subproblems all have closed-form solutions and can be executed in distributed manners. Global convergence of the method is proved from variational inequalities perspective. Numerical experiments show that our algorithm converges to the optimal solution as other distributed methods, with better performances.     

A new model for sparse and low-rank matrix decomposition

The robust principal component analysis (RPCA) model is a popular method for solving problems with the nuclear norm and $\ell_1$ norm. However, it is time-consuming since in general one has to use the singular value decomposition in each iteration. In this paper, we introduce a novel model to reformulate the existed model by making use of low-rank matrix factorization to surrogate the nuclear norm for the sparse and low-rank decomposition problem. In such case we apply the Penalty Function Method (PFM) and Augmented Lagrangian Multipliers Method (ALMM) to solve this new non-convex optimization problem. Theoretically, corresponding to our methods, the convergence analysis is given respectively. Compared with classical RPCA, some practical numerical examples are simulated to show that our methods are much better than RPCA.     

求解鲁棒主成分分析的新交替下降方向法

鲁棒主成分分析作为统计与数据科学领域的基本工具已被广泛研究,其核心原理是把观测数据分解成低秩部分和稀疏部分.本文基于鲁棒主成分分析的非凸模型,提出了一种新的基于梯度方法和非单调搜索技术的高斯型交替下降方向法.在新算法中,交替更新低秩部分和稀疏部分相关的变量,其中低秩部分的变量是利用一步带有精确步长的梯度下降法进行更新,...     

Alternating direction and Taylor expansion minimization algorithms for unconstrained nuclear norm optimization

Numerical Algorithms - In the past decade, robust principal component analysis (RPCA) and low-rank matrix completion (LRMC), as two very important optimization problems with the view of recovering...     

求解低秩矩阵恢复问题的非单调交替梯度方向法

低秩矩阵恢复问题作为一类在图像处理和信号数据分析等领域中都十分重要的问题已被广泛研究.本文在交替方向算法的框架下,应用非单调技术,提出一种求解低秩矩阵恢复问题的新算法.该算法在每一步迭代过程中,首先利用一步带有变步长梯度算法同时更新低秩部分的两块变量,然后采用非单调技术更新稀疏部分的变量.在一定的假设条件下,本文证明了...     

Robust low-rank data matrix approximations

We review some recent approaches to robust approximations of low-rank data matrices. We consider the problem of estimating a low-rank mean matrix when the data matrix is subject to measurement errors as well as gross outliers in some of its entries. The purpose of the paper is to make various algorithms accessible with an understanding of their abilities and limitations to perform robust low-rank matrix approximations in both low and high dimensional problems.     

张量鲁棒主成分分析的增广拉格朗日交替方向方法

张量的鲁棒主成分分析是将未知的一个低秩张量与一个稀疏张量从已知的它们的和中分离出来.因为在计算机视觉与模式识别中有着广阔的应用前景,该问题在近期成为学者们的研究热点.本文提出了一种针对张量鲁棒主成分分析的新的模型,并给出交替方向极小化的求解算法,在求解过程中给出了两种秩的调整策略.针对低秩分量本文对其全部各阶展开矩阵进行低秩矩阵分解,针对稀疏分量采用软阈值收缩的策略.无论目标低秩张量为精确低秩或近似低秩,本文所提方法均可适用.本文对算法给出了一定程度上的收敛性分析,即算法迭代过程中产生的任意收敛点均满足KKT条件.如果目标低秩张量为精确低秩,当迭代终止时可对输出结果进行基于高阶奇异值分解的修正.针对人工数据和真实视频数据的数值实验表明,与同类型算法相比,本文所提方法可以得到更好的结果.     

A novel robust principal component analysis method for image and video processing

The research on the robust principal component analysis has been attracting much attention recently. Generally, the model assumes sparse noise and characterizes the error term by the λ₁-norm. However, the sparse noise has clustering effect in practice so using a certain λ_p-norm simply is not appropriate for modeling. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on sparse Bayesian learning principles and Markov random fields. The method is proved to be very effective for low-rank matrix recovery and contiguous outliers detection, by enforcing the low-rank constraint in a matrix factorization formulation and incorporating the contiguity prior as a sparsity constraint. The experiments on both synthetic data and some practical computer vision applications show that the novel method proposed in this paper is competitive when compared with other state-of-the-art methods.     

Low-rank and sparse matrix recovery from noisy observations via 3-block ADMM algorithm

Recovering low-rank and sparse matrix from a given matrix arises in many applications, such as image processing, video background substraction, and so on. The 3-block alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been applied successfully to solve convex problems with 3-block variables. However, the existing sufficient conditions to guarantee the convergence of the 3-block ADMM usually require the penalty parameter $\gamma$ to satisfy a certain bound, which may affect the performance of solving the large scale problem in practice. In this paper, we propose the 3-block ADMM to recover low-rank and sparse matrix from noisy observations. In theory, we prove that the 3-block ADMM is convergent when the penalty parameters satisfy a certain condition and the objective function value sequences generated by 3-block ADMM converge to the optimal value. Numerical experiments verify that proposed method can achieve higher performance than existing methods in terms of both efficiency and accuracy.     

Solving a low-rank factorization model for matrix completion by a nonlinear successive over-relaxation algorithm

The matrix completion problem is to recover a low-rank matrix from a subset of its entries. The main solution strategy for this problem has been based on nuclear-norm minimization which requires computing singular value decompositions??a task that is increasingly costly as matrix sizes and ranks increase. To improve the capacity of solving large-scale problems, we propose a low-rank factorization model and construct a nonlinear successive over-relaxation (SOR) algorithm that only requires solving a linear least squares problem per iteration. Extensive numerical experiments show that the algorithm can reliably solve a wide range of problems at a speed at least several times faster than many nuclear-norm minimization algorithms. In addition, convergence of this nonlinear SOR algorithm to a stationary point is analyzed.     

Robust PCA and subspace tracking from incomplete observations using \ell _0-surrogates

Many applications in data analysis rely on the decomposition of a data matrix into a low-rank and a sparse component. Existing methods that tackle this task use the nuclear norm and \(\ell _1\) -cost functions as convex relaxations of the rank constraint and the sparsity measure, respectively, or employ thresholding techniques. We propose a method that allows for reconstructing and tracking a subspace of upper-bounded dimension from incomplete and corrupted observations. It does not require any a priori information about the number of outliers. The core of our algorithm is an intrinsic Conjugate Gradient method on the set of orthogonal projection matrices, the so-called Grassmannian. Non-convex sparsity measures are used for outlier detection, which leads to improved performance in terms of robustly recovering and tracking the low-rank matrix. In particular, our approach can cope with more outliers and with an underlying matrix of higher rank than other state-of-the-art methods.     

Sharp Recovery Bounds for Convex Demixing,with Applications

Demixing refers to the challenge of identifying two structured signals given only the sum of the two signals and prior information about their structures. Examples include the problem of separating a signal that is sparse with respect to one basis from a signal that is sparse with respect to a second basis, and the problem of decomposing an observed matrix into a low-rank matrix plus a sparse matrix. This paper describes and analyzes a framework, based on convex optimization, for solving these demixing problems, and many others. This work introduces a randomized signal model that ensures that the two structures are incoherent, i.e., generically oriented. For an observation from this model, this approach identifies a summary statistic that reflects the complexity of a particular signal. The difficulty of separating two structured, incoherent signals depends only on the total complexity of the two structures. Some applications include (1) demixing two signals that are sparse in mutually incoherent bases, (2) decoding spread-spectrum transmissions in the presence of impulsive errors, and (3) removing sparse corruptions from a low-rank matrix. In each case, the theoretical analysis of the convex demixing method closely matches its empirical behavior.     

A modified greedy analysis pursuit algorithm for the cosparse analysis model

In the past decade, the sparse representation synthesis model has been deeply researched and widely applied in signal processing. Recently, a cosparse analysis model has been introduced as an interesting alternative to the sparse representation synthesis model. The sparse synthesis model pay attention to non-zero elements in a representation vector x, while the cosparse analysis model focuses on zero elements in the analysis representation vector Ωx. This paper mainly considers the problem of the cosparse analysis model. Based on the greedy analysis pursuit algorithm, by constructing an adaptive weighted matrix W _k?1, we propose a modified greedy analysis pursuit algorithm for the sparse recovery problem when the signal obeys the cosparse model. Using a weighted matrix, we fill the gap between greedy algorithm and relaxation techniques. The standard analysis shows that our algorithm is convergent. We estimate the error bound for solving the cosparse analysis model, and then the presented simulations demonstrate the advantage of the proposed method for the cosparse inverse problem.     

ROBUST INEXACT ALTERNATING OPTIMIZATION FOR MATRIX COMPLETION WITH OUTLIERS

We investigate the problem of robust matrix completion with a fraction of observation corrupted by sparsity outlier noise. We propose an algorithmic framework based on the ADMM algorithm for a non-convex optimization, whose objective function consists of an $\ell_1$ norm data fidelity and a rank constraint. To reduce the computational cost per iteration, two inexact schemes are developed to replace the most time-consuming step in the generic ADMM algorithm. The resulting algorithms remarkably outperform the existing solvers for robust matrix completion with outlier noise. When the noise is severe and the underlying matrix is ill-conditioned, the proposed algorithms are faster and give more accurate solutions than state-of-the-art robust matrix completion approaches.     

用随机奇异值分解算法求解矩阵恢复问题

本文研究了大型低秩矩阵恢复问题.利用随机奇异值分解（RSVD）算法,对稀疏矩阵做奇异值分解.该算法与Lanczos方法相比,在误差精度一致的同时运算时间大大降低,且该算法对相对低秩矩阵也有效.     

基于迭代投影的梯度硬阈值追踪算法

梯度硬阈值追踪算法是求解稀疏优化问题的有效算法之一.考虑到算法中投影对最优解的影响,提出一种比贪婪策略更好的投影算法是很有必要的.针对一般的稀疏约束优化问题,利用整数规划提出一种迭代投影策略,将梯度投影算法中的投影作为一个子问题求解.通过迭代求解该子问题得到投影的指标集,并以此继续求解原问题,以提高梯度硬阈值追踪算法的计算效果.证明了算法的收敛性,并通过数值实例验证了算法的有效性.     

Robust kernel principal component analysis and classification

Kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) extends linear PCA from a real vector space to any high dimensional kernel feature space. The sensitivity of linear PCA to outliers is well-known and various robust alternatives have been proposed in the literature. For KPCA such robust versions received considerably less attention. In this article we present kernel versions of three robust PCA algorithms: spherical PCA, projection pursuit and ROBPCA. These robust KPCA algorithms are analyzed in a classification context applying discriminant analysis on the KPCA scores. The performances of the different robust KPCA algorithms are studied in a simulation study comparing misclassification percentages, both on clean and contaminated data. An outlier map is constructed to visualize outliers in such classification problems. A real life example from protein classification illustrates the usefulness of robust KPCA and its corresponding outlier map.     

Four algorithms for the the efficient computation of truncated pivoted QR approximations to a sparse matrix

Summary. In this paper we propose four algorithms to compute truncated pivoted QR approximations to a sparse matrix. Three are based on the Gram–Schmidt algorithm and the other on Householder triangularization. All four algorithms leave the original matrix unchanged, and the only additional storage requirements are arrays to contain the factorization itself. Thus, the algorithms are particularly suited to determining low-rank approximations to a sparse matrix. Received February 23, 1998 / Revised version received April 16, 1998     

An alternating direction and projection algorithm for structure-enforced matrix factorization

Structure-enforced matrix factorization (SeMF) represents a large class of mathematical models appearing in various forms of principal component analysis, sparse coding, dictionary learning and other machine learning techniques useful in many applications including neuroscience and signal processing. In this paper, we present a unified algorithm framework, based on the classic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), for solving a wide range of SeMF problems whose constraint sets permit low-complexity projections. We propose a strategy to adaptively adjust the penalty parameters which is the key to achieving good performance for ADMM. We conduct extensive numerical experiments to compare the proposed algorithm with a number of state-of-the-art special-purpose algorithms on test problems including dictionary learning for sparse representation and sparse nonnegative matrix factorization. Results show that our unified SeMF algorithm can solve different types of factorization problems as reliably and as efficiently as special-purpose algorithms. In particular, our SeMF algorithm provides the ability to explicitly enforce various combinatorial sparsity patterns that, to our knowledge, has not been considered in existing approaches.     

Sparse principal component analysis via regularized low rank matrix approximation

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used tool for data analysis and dimension reduction in applications throughout science and engineering. However, the principal components (PCs) can sometimes be difficult to interpret, because they are linear combinations of all the original variables. To facilitate interpretation, sparse PCA produces modified PCs with sparse loadings, i.e. loadings with very few non-zero elements. In this paper, we propose a new sparse PCA method, namely sparse PCA via regularized SVD (sPCA-rSVD). We use the connection of PCA with singular value decomposition (SVD) of the data matrix and extract the PCs through solving a low rank matrix approximation problem. Regularization penalties are introduced to the corresponding minimization problem to promote sparsity in PC loadings. An efficient iterative algorithm is proposed for computation. Two tuning parameter selection methods are discussed. Some theoretical results are established to justify the use of sPCA-rSVD when only the data covariance matrix is available. In addition, we give a modified definition of variance explained by the sparse PCs. The sPCA-rSVD provides a uniform treatment of both classical multivariate data and high-dimension-low-sample-size (HDLSS) data. Further understanding of sPCA-rSVD and some existing alternatives is gained through simulation studies and real data examples, which suggests that sPCA-rSVD provides competitive results.