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20172026
most citedRapid Robust Principal Component Analysis: CUR Accelerated Inexact Low Rank Estimation

64 citations · 329 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantized Low-Rank Quantum State Tomography: Hyperbolic Quantization and Riemannian Least-Squares Recovery

HanQin Cai, Longxiu Huang, Juntao You

We study low-rank quantum state tomography from finite-bit Pauli batch responses. To avoid bias introduced by generic quantization, we propose HyperQuant, a mean-preserving hyperbo…

stat.ML2026

Robust Low-Tubal-Rank Tensor Completion under Cross-Concentrated Sampling

HanQin Cai, Longxiu Huang, Jing Qin +1

Tensor cross-concentrated sampling (t-CCS) bridges entrywise sampling and t-CUR slice-wise sampling by observing entries only within selected horizontal and lateral slices. Existin…

cs.IT2026

Robust Spectral Recovery for Dynamical Sampling

HanQin Cai, Longxiu Huang, Tianming Wang +1

We study the spectral recovery problem for dynamical sampling on a finite cyclic grid. Given time snapshots obtained from a fixed uniform spatial subsampling of the orbit $x_{\ell}…

cs.IT2025

Property Inheritance for Subtensors in Tensor Train Decompositions

HanQin Cai, Longxiu Huang

Tensor dimensionality reduction is one of the fundamental tools for modern data science. To address the high computational overhead, fiber-wise sampled subtensors that preserve the…

eess.SP2025

Three-dimensional signal processing: a new approach in dynamical sampling via tensor products

Yisen Wang, Hanqin Cai, Longxiu Huang

The dynamical sampling problem is centered around reconstructing signals that evolve over time according to a dynamical process, from spatial-temporal samples that may be noisy. Th…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

Guarantees of a Preconditioned Subgradient Algorithm for Overparameterized Asymmetric Low-rank Matrix Recovery

Paris Giampouras, HanQin Cai, Rene Vidal

In this paper, we focus on a matrix factorization-based approach to recover low-rank {\it asymmetric} matrices from corrupted measurements. We propose an {\it Overparameterized Pre…

cs.LG2024

Guaranteed Sampling Flexibility for Low-tubal-rank Tensor Completion

Bowen Su, Juntao You, HanQin Cai +1

While Bernoulli sampling is extensively studied in tensor completion, t-CUR sampling approximates low-tubal-rank tensors via lateral and horizontal subtensors. However, both method…

stat.ML2024★ 5 cited

Accelerating Ill-conditioned Hankel Matrix Recovery via Structured Newton-like Descent

HanQin Cai, Longxiu Huang, Xiliang Lu +1

This paper studies the robust Hankel recovery problem, which simultaneously removes the sparse outliers and fulfills missing entries from the partial observation. We propose a nove…

stat.ML2024★ 3 cited

On the Robustness of Cross-Concentrated Sampling for Matrix Completion

HanQin Cai, Longxiu Huang, Chandra Kundu +1

Matrix completion is one of the crucial tools in modern data science research. Recently, a novel sampling model for matrix completion coined cross-concentrated sampling (CCS) has c…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Towards Constituting Mathematical Structures for Learning to Optimize

Jialin Liu, Xiaohan Chen, Zhangyang Wang +2

Learning to Optimize (L2O), a technique that utilizes machine learning to learn an optimization algorithm automatically from data, has gained arising attention in recent years. A g…

math.NA2023★ 13 cited

Robust Tensor CUR Decompositions: Rapid Low-Tucker-Rank Tensor Recovery with Sparse Corruption

HanQin Cai, Zehan Chao, Longxiu Huang +1

We study the tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA) problem, a tensorial extension of matrix robust principal component analysis (RPCA), that aims to split the given te…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Non-convex approaches for low-rank tensor completion under tubal sampling

Zheng Tan, Longxiu Huang, HanQin Cai +1

Tensor completion is an important problem in modern data analysis. In this work, we investigate a specific sampling strategy, referred to as tubal sampling. We propose two novel no…

cs.LG2022★ 18 cited

Matrix Completion with Cross-Concentrated Sampling: Bridging Uniform Sampling and CUR Sampling

HanQin Cai, Longxiu Huang, Pengyu Li +1

While uniform sampling has been widely studied in the matrix completion literature, CUR sampling approximates a low-rank matrix via row and column samples. Unfortunately, both samp…

stat.ML2022★ 2 cited

Riemannian CUR Decompositions for Robust Principal Component Analysis

Keaton Hamm, Mohamed Meskini, HanQin Cai

Robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has received massive attention in recent years. It aims to recover a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix from their sum. This paper propos…

cs.IT2022★ 20 cited

Structured Gradient Descent for Fast Robust Low-Rank Hankel Matrix Completion

HanQin Cai, Jian-Feng Cai, Juntao You

We study the robust matrix completion problem for the low-rank Hankel matrix, which detects the sparse corruptions caused by extreme outliers while we try to recover the original H…

cs.LG2021★ 19 cited

Learned Robust PCA: A Scalable Deep Unfolding Approach for High-Dimensional Outlier Detection

HanQin Cai, Jialin Liu, Wotao Yin

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a critical tool in modern machine learning, which detects outliers in the task of low-rank matrix reconstruction. In this paper, we pr…

math.OC2021★ 2 cited

Curvature-Aware Derivative-Free Optimization

Bumsu Kim, HanQin Cai, Daniel McKenzie +1

The paper discusses derivative-free optimization (DFO), which involves minimizing a function without access to gradients or directional derivatives, only function evaluations. Clas…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Fast Robust Tensor Principal Component Analysis via Fiber CUR Decomposition

HanQin Cai, Zehan Chao, Longxiu Huang +1

We study the problem of tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA), which aims to separate an underlying low-multilinear-rank tensor and a sparse outlier tensor from their…

stat.ME2021★ 1 cited

Estimation of high-dimensional change-points under a group sparsity structure

Hanqing Cai, Tengyao Wang

Change-points are a routine feature of 'big data' observed in the form of high-dimensional data streams. In many such data streams, the component series possess group structures an…

math.NA2021★ 13 cited

Mode-wise Tensor Decompositions: Multi-dimensional Generalizations of CUR Decompositions

HanQin Cai, Keaton Hamm, Longxiu Huang +1

Low rank tensor approximation is a fundamental tool in modern machine learning and data science. In this paper, we study the characterization, perturbation analysis, and an efficie…

math.OC2021★ 5 cited

A Zeroth-Order Block Coordinate Descent Algorithm for Huge-Scale Black-Box Optimization

HanQin Cai, Yuchen Lou, Daniel McKenzie +1

We consider the zeroth-order optimization problem in the huge-scale setting, where the dimension of the problem is so large that performing even basic vector operations on the deci…

cs.CV2021★ 49 cited

Robust CUR Decomposition: Theory and Imaging Applications

HanQin Cai, Keaton Hamm, Longxiu Huang +1

This paper considers the use of Robust PCA in a CUR decomposition framework and applications thereof. Our main algorithms produce a robust version of column-row factorizations of m…

stat.ML2020★ 64 cited

Rapid Robust Principal Component Analysis: CUR Accelerated Inexact Low Rank Estimation

HanQin Cai, Keaton Hamm, Longxiu Huang +2

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a widely used tool for dimension reduction. In this work, we propose a novel non-convex algorithm, coined Iterated Robust CUR (IRCUR),…

math.OC2020★ 10 cited

A One-bit, Comparison-Based Gradient Estimator

HanQin Cai, Daniel Mckenzie, Wotao Yin +1

We study zeroth-order optimization for convex functions where we further assume that function evaluations are unavailable. Instead, one only has access to a $\textit{comparison ora…