Low-rank Tensor Learning with Nonconvex Overlapped Nuclear Norm Regularization

Quanming Yao, Yaqing Wang*, Bo Han, James T. Kwok

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

1 Citation (Scopus)

Abstract

Nonconvex regularization has been popularly used in low-rank matrix learning. However, extending it for low-rank tensor learning is still computationally expensive. To address this problem, we develop an efficient solver for use with a nonconvex extension of the overlapped nuclear norm regularizer. Based on the proximal average algorithm, the proposed algorithm can avoid expensive tensor folding/unfolding operations. A special “sparse plus low-rank" structure is maintained throughout the iterations, and allows fast computation of the individual proximal steps. Empirical convergence is further improved with the use of adaptive momentum. We provide convergence guarantees to critical points on smooth losses and also on objectives satisfying the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz condition. While the optimization problem is nonconvex and nonsmooth, we show that its critical points still have good statistical performance on the tensor completion problem. Experiments on various synthetic and real-world data sets show that the proposed algorithm is efficient in both time and space and more accurate than the existing state-of-the-art.
Original languageEnglish
Article number136
Number of pages60
JournalJournal of Machine Learning Research
Volume23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Apr 2022

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Artificial Intelligence

User-Defined Keywords

  • Low-rank tensor
  • Nonconvex regularization
  • Overlapped nuclear norm
  • Proximal algorithm
  • Proximal average algorithm

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Low-rank Tensor Learning with Nonconvex Overlapped Nuclear Norm Regularization'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this