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Poster

Semi-Random Matrix Completion via Flow-Based Adaptive Reweighting

Jonathan Kelner · Jerry Li · Allen Liu · Aaron Sidford · Kevin Tian

West Ballroom A-D #6200
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Wed 11 Dec 11 a.m. PST — 2 p.m. PST

Abstract: We consider the well-studied problem of completing a rank-r, μ-incoherent matrix MRd×d from incomplete observations. We focus on this problem in the semi-random setting where each entry is independently revealed with probability at least p=\textuppoly(r,μ,logd)d. Whereas multiple nearly-linear time algorithms have been established in the more specialized fully-random setting where each entry is revealed with probablity exactly p, the only known nearly-linear time algorithm in the semi-random setting is due to [CG18], whose sample complexity has a polynomial dependence on the inverse accuracy and condition number and thus cannot achieve high-accuracy recovery. Our main result is the first high-accuracy nearly-linear time algorithm for solving semi-random matrix completion, and an extension to the noisy observation setting.Our result builds upon the recent short-flat decomposition framework of [KLLST23a, KLLST23b] and leverages fast algorithms for flow problems on graphs to solve adaptive reweighting subproblems efficiently.

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