Matrix Completion Under Interval Uncertainty: Highlights

Abstract

We present an overview of inequality-constrained matrix completion, with a particular focus on alternating least-squares (ALS) methods. The simple and seemingly obvious addition of inequality constraints to matrix completion seems to improve the statistical performance of matrix completion in a number of applications, such as collaborative filtering under interval uncertainty, robust statistics, event detection, and background modelling in computer vision. An ALS algorithm MACO by Marecek et al. outperforms others, including Sparkler, the implementation of Li et al. Code related to this paper is available at: http://optml.github.io/ac-dc/.