2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper IDMLSP-18.2
Paper Title Exact Linear Convergence Rate Analysis for Low-Rank Symmetric Matrix Completion via Gradient Descent
Authors Trung Vu, Raviv Raich, Oregon State University, United States
SessionMLSP-18: Matrix Factorization and Applications
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 14:00 - 14:45
Presentation Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 14:00 - 14:45
Presentation Poster
Topic Machine Learning for Signal Processing: [MLR-MFC] Matrix factorizations/completion
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Abstract Factorization-based gradient descent is a scalable and efficient algorithm for solving low-rank matrix completion. Recent progress in structured non-convex optimization has offered global convergence guarantees for gradient descent under certain statistical assumptions on the low-rank matrix and the sampling set. However, while the theory suggests gradient descent enjoys fast linear convergence to a global solution of the problem, the universal nature of the bounding technique prevents it from obtaining an accurate estimate of the rate of convergence. This paper performs a local analysis of the exact linear convergence rate of gradient descent for factorization-based symmetric matrix completion. Without any additional assumptions on the underlying model, we identify the deterministic condition for local convergence guarantee for gradient descent, which depends only on the solution matrix and the sampling set. More crucially, our analysis provides a closed-form expression of the asymptotic rate of convergence that matches exactly with the linear convergence observed in practice. To the best of our knowledge, our result is the first one that offers the exact linear convergence rate of gradient descent for matrix factorization in Euclidean space for matrix completion.