Recovery of Low-Rank Matrices Under Affine Constraints via a Smoothed Rank Function
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing(2014)
摘要
In this paper, the problem of matrix rank minimization under affine constraints is addressed. The state-of-the-art algorithms can recover matrices with a rank much less than what is sufficient for the uniqueness of the solution of this optimization problem. We propose an algorithm based on a smooth approximation of the rank function, which practically improves recovery limits on the rank of the solution. This approximation leads to a non-convex program; thus, to avoid getting trapped in local solutions, we use the following scheme. Initially, a rough approximation of the rank function subject to the affine constraints is optimized. As the algorithm proceeds, finer approximations of the rank are optimized and the solver is initialized with the solution of the previous approximation until reaching the desired accuracy. On the theoretical side, benefiting from the spherical section property, we will show that the sequence of the solutions of the approximating programs converges to the minimum rank solution. On the experimental side, it will be shown that the proposed algorithm, termed SRF standing for smoothed rank function, can recover matrices, which are unique solutions of the rank minimization problem and yet not recoverable by nuclear norm minimization. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated that, in completing partially observed matrices, the accuracy of SRF is considerably and consistently better than some famous algorithms when the number of revealed entries is close to the minimum number of parameters that uniquely represent a low-rank matrix.
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nuclear norm minimization (nnm),rank minimization problem,affine constraints,compressive sensing,low-rank matrices recovery,matrix algebra,matrix completion (mc),spherical section property (ssp),compressed sensing,nuclear norm minimization,matrix rank minimization,nonconvex program,rank approximation,affine rank minimization (arm),smoothed rank function,rough approximation,state-of-the-art algorithms,affine transforms,spherical section property,signal processing
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