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Component-Wise Squared Factorization

Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The component-wise squared factorization decomposes a matrix as the component-wise square of a low-rank matrix. It can be used to compute the so-called square root rank of a matrix, used in the compact representation of convex polytopes, but also to represent compactly nonnegative data including arithmetic circuits. This paper introduces a coordinate descent algorithm to solve this problem, along with an accelerated variant using extrapolation. We show that it compresses better dense and sparse nonnegative matrices than standard linear low-rank matrix factorization models such as the truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) and nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). Then, we explore its application on synthetic matrices generated for experimentation, and also on the slack matrices of regular n-gons and linear Euclidean distance matrices.
Authors: Joakim Lefebvre, Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis
Institution: University of Mons
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4404037425
FWCI: 0.282
Cites: 14
Cited by: 1
Related to: 10