Noisy tensor completion via the sum-of-squares hierarchy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barak, Boaz; Moitra, Ankur
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-5610
• DOI: 10.1007/s10107-022-01793-9
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 513-548
• 关键词: Rank; NORM; POLYNOMIALS

摘要

In the noisy tensor completion problem we observe m entries (whose location is chosen uniformly at random) from an unknown n(1) x n(2) x n(3) tensor T. We assume that T is entry-wise close to being rank r. Our goal is to fill in its missing entries using as few observations as possible. Let n = max(n(1), n(2), n(3)). We show that if m greater than or similar to n(3/2)r then there is a polynomial time algorithm based on the sixth level of the sum-of-squares hierarchy for completing it. Our estimate agrees with almost all of T's entries almost exactly and works even when our observations are corrupted by noise. This is also the first algorithm for tensor completion that works in the overcomplete case when r > n, and in fact it works all the way up to r = n(3/2-epsilon). Our proofs are short and simple and are based on establishing a new connection between noisy tensor completion (through the language of Rademacher complexity) and the task of refuting random constraint satisfaction problems. This connection seems to have gone unnoticed even in the context of matrix completion. Furthermore, we use this connection to show matching lower bounds. Our main technical result is in characterizing the Rademacher complexity of the sequence of norms that arise in the sum-of-squares relaxations to the tensor nuclear norm. These results point to an interesting new direction: Can we explore computational vs. sample complexity tradeoffs through the sum-of-squares hierarchy?