Tensor Ring Decomposition with Rank Minimization on Latent Space: An Efficient Approach for Tensor Completion
This addresses the efficiency and robustness issues in tensor completion for applications like data analysis, though it is an incremental improvement over existing tensor ring methods.
The paper tackles the laborious model selection problem in tensor completion by proposing a tensor ring decomposition method with nuclear norm regularization on the latent space, which reduces computational cost and shows superior performance in experiments.
In tensor completion tasks, the traditional low-rank tensor decomposition models suffer from the laborious model selection problem due to their high model sensitivity. In particular, for tensor ring (TR) decomposition, the number of model possibilities grows exponentially with the tensor order, which makes it rather challenging to find the optimal TR decomposition. In this paper, by exploiting the low-rank structure of the TR latent space, we propose a novel tensor completion method which is robust to model selection. In contrast to imposing the low-rank constraint on the data space, we introduce nuclear norm regularization on the latent TR factors, resulting in the optimization step using singular value decomposition (SVD) being performed at a much smaller scale. By leveraging the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) scheme, the latent TR factors with optimal rank and the recovered tensor can be obtained simultaneously. Our proposed algorithm is shown to effectively alleviate the burden of TR-rank selection, thereby greatly reducing the computational cost. The extensive experimental results on both synthetic and real-world data demonstrate the superior performance and efficiency of the proposed approach against the state-of-the-art algorithms.