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Non-square matrix sensing without spurious local minima via the Burer-Monteiro approach

Dohyung Park, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Constantine Carmanis, Sujay Sanghavi

Abstract

We consider the non-square matrix sensing problem, under restricted isometry property (RIP) assumptions. We focus on the non-convex formulation, where any rank-r matrix $X ∈R^m x n$ is represented as $UV^T$, where $U ∈R^m x r$ and $V ∈R^n x r$. In this paper, we complement recent findings on the non-convex geometry of the analogous PSD setting [5], and show that matrix factorization does not introduce any spurious local minima, under RIP.

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v54-park17a,
  title = 	 {{Non-square matrix sensing without spurious local minima via the Burer-Monteiro approach}},
  author = 	 {Park, Dohyung and Kyrillidis, Anastasios and Carmanis, Constantine and Sanghavi, Sujay},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  pages = 	 {65--74},
  year = 	 {2017},
  editor = 	 {Singh, Aarti and Zhu, Jerry},
  volume = 	 {54},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  month = 	 {20--22 Apr},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v54/park17a/park17a.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v54/park17a.html},
  abstract = 	 {We consider the non-square matrix sensing problem, under restricted isometry property (RIP) assumptions.  We focus on the non-convex formulation, where any rank-r matrix $X ∈R^m x n$ is represented as $UV^T$, where $U ∈R^m x r$ and $V ∈R^n x r$. In this paper, we complement recent findings on the non-convex geometry of the analogous PSD setting [5], and show that matrix factorization does not introduce any spurious local minima, under RIP. }
}
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