National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu.
Academia Sinica, Taipei and National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu.
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell. 2014 Mar;36(3):577-91. doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2013.164.
The success of research on matrix completion is evident in a variety of real-world applications. Tensor completion, which is a high-order extension of matrix completion, has also generated a great deal of research interest in recent years. Given a tensor with incomplete entries, existing methods use either factorization or completion schemes to recover the missing parts. However, as the number of missing entries increases, factorization schemes may overfit the model because of incorrectly predefined ranks, while completion schemes may fail to interpret the model factors. In this paper, we introduce a novel concept: complete the missing entries and simultaneously capture the underlying model structure. To this end, we propose a method called simultaneous tensor decomposition and completion (STDC) that combines a rank minimization technique with Tucker model decomposition. Moreover, as the model structure is implicitly included in the Tucker model, we use factor priors, which are usually known a priori in real-world tensor objects, to characterize the underlying joint-manifold drawn from the model factors. By exploiting this auxiliary information, our method leverages two classic schemes and accurately estimates the model factors and missing entries. We conducted experiments to empirically verify the convergence of our algorithm on synthetic data and evaluate its effectiveness on various kinds of real-world data. The results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method and its potential usage in tensor-based applications. It also outperforms state-of-the-art methods on multilinear model analysis and visual data completion tasks.
矩阵补全研究的成功在各种现实应用中显而易见。张量补全是矩阵补全的高阶扩展,近年来也引起了大量研究兴趣。对于具有不完全项的张量,现有方法要么使用因式分解要么使用补全方案来恢复缺失部分。然而,随着缺失项数量的增加,因式分解方案可能会因为错误预定义的阶数而过拟合模型,而补全方案可能无法解释模型因子。在本文中,我们引入了一个新的概念:同时补全缺失项并捕捉潜在的模型结构。为此,我们提出了一种称为同时张量分解和补全(STDC)的方法,该方法将秩最小化技术与 Tucker 模型分解相结合。此外,由于模型结构隐含在 Tucker 模型中,我们使用通常在现实世界张量对象中预先知道的因子先验来描述从模型因子中得出的潜在联合流形。通过利用这种辅助信息,我们的方法利用了两种经典方案,并准确估计了模型因子和缺失项。我们进行了实验以在合成数据上验证我们算法的收敛性,并评估其在各种真实世界数据上的有效性。结果表明了所提出方法的有效性及其在基于张量的应用中的潜在用途。它在多线性模型分析和视觉数据补全任务上也优于最新方法。