# Non-convex Rank/Sparsity Regularization and Local Minima

@article{Olsson2017NonconvexRR,
title={Non-convex Rank/Sparsity Regularization and Local Minima},
journal={2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
year={2017},
pages={332-340}
}
• Published 21 March 2017
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
This paper considers the problem of recovering either a low rank matrix or a sparse vector from observations of linear combinations of the vector or matrix elements. Recent methods replace the non-convex regularization with ℓ1 or nuclear norm relaxations. It is well known that this approach recovers near optimal solutions if a so called restricted isometry property (RIP) holds. On the other hand it also has a shrinking bias which can degrade the solution. In this paper we study an alternative…
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