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A Nonconvex Projection Method for Robust PCA
Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a well-studied problem with the
goal of decomposing a matrix into the sum of low-rank and sparse components. In
this paper, we propose a nonconvex feasibility reformulation of RPCA problem
and apply an alternating projection method to solve it. To the best of our
knowledge, we are the first to propose a method that solves RPCA problem
without considering any objective function, convex relaxation, or surrogate
convex constraints. We demonstrate through extensive numerical experiments on a
variety of applications, including shadow removal, background estimation, face
detection, and galaxy evolution, that our approach matches and often
significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art in various ways.Comment: In the proceedings of Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-19
Finding a low-rank basis in a matrix subspace
For a given matrix subspace, how can we find a basis that consists of
low-rank matrices? This is a generalization of the sparse vector problem. It
turns out that when the subspace is spanned by rank-1 matrices, the matrices
can be obtained by the tensor CP decomposition. For the higher rank case, the
situation is not as straightforward. In this work we present an algorithm based
on a greedy process applicable to higher rank problems. Our algorithm first
estimates the minimum rank by applying soft singular value thresholding to a
nuclear norm relaxation, and then computes a matrix with that rank using the
method of alternating projections. We provide local convergence results, and
compare our algorithm with several alternative approaches. Applications include
data compression beyond the classical truncated SVD, computing accurate
eigenvectors of a near-multiple eigenvalue, image separation and graph
Laplacian eigenproblems
Robust Principal Component Analysis?
This paper is about a curious phenomenon. Suppose we have a data matrix,
which is the superposition of a low-rank component and a sparse component. Can
we recover each component individually? We prove that under some suitable
assumptions, it is possible to recover both the low-rank and the sparse
components exactly by solving a very convenient convex program called Principal
Component Pursuit; among all feasible decompositions, simply minimize a
weighted combination of the nuclear norm and of the L1 norm. This suggests the
possibility of a principled approach to robust principal component analysis
since our methodology and results assert that one can recover the principal
components of a data matrix even though a positive fraction of its entries are
arbitrarily corrupted. This extends to the situation where a fraction of the
entries are missing as well. We discuss an algorithm for solving this
optimization problem, and present applications in the area of video
surveillance, where our methodology allows for the detection of objects in a
cluttered background, and in the area of face recognition, where it offers a
principled way of removing shadows and specularities in images of faces
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