证明低秩矩阵补全在特定条件下是计算上极难的,挑战了现有算法的可行性。
New Hardness Results for Low-Rank Matrix Completion
- 提出图的近正交表示与线有向图新概念,构建硬度证明框架。
- 在误差ε∈[2⁻ᴼ⁽ᵈ⁾,1/7]时,即使允许秩放大O(1/ε² log(1/ε))倍仍为NP-hard。
- 首次在不依赖唯一游戏猜想下,证明无穷范数约束下的同类问题也难解。
低秩矩阵补全问题旨在判断一个含缺失值的实矩阵能否被补全为低秩或接近低秩矩阵,常需满足正半定性或无穷范数有界等结构约束。该问题广泛存在于机器学习、统计学和理论计算机科学中。本文建立新的NP-hardness结果:对任意足够大的整数d及任意实数ε∈[2⁻ᴼ⁽ᵈ⁾,1/7],若给定部分矩阵A的已知元素绝对值不超过1,且存在秩为d的正半定补全,则在允许秩扩大至O(1/ε²·log(1/ε))倍的情况下,仍难以找到与原值偏差不超过ε的正半定补全,此结果强于Hardt等人(COLT 2014)的工作。同时,对于要求补全矩阵具有有界无穷范数的情形(而非正半定),我们亦获得类似NP-hardness结论——此前所有此类结果均依赖唯一游戏猜想。证明方法涉及图的近正交表示、线有向图概念以及扰动单位矩阵的秩界。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The low-rank matrix completion problem asks whether a given real matrix with missing values can be completed so that the resulting matrix has low rank or is close to a low-rank matrix. The completed matrix is often required to satisfy additional structural constraints, such as positive semi-definiteness or a bounded infinity norm. The problem arises in various research fields, including machine learning, statistics, and theoretical computer science, and has broad real-world applications. This paper presents new $\mathsf{NP} $-hardness results for low-rank matrix completion problems. We show that for every sufficiently large integer $d$ and any real number $\varepsilon \in [ 2^{-O(d)},\frac{1}{7}]$, given a partial matrix $A$ with exposed values of magnitude at most $1$ that admits a positive semi-definite completion of rank $d$, it is $\mathsf{NP}$-hard to find a positive semi-definite matrix that agrees with each given value of $A$ up to an additive error of at most $\varepsilon$, even when the rank is allowed to exceed $d$ by a multiplicative factor of $O (\frac{1}{\varepsilon ^2 \cdot \log(1/\varepsilon)} )$. This strengthens a result of Hardt, Meka, Raghavendra, and Weitz (COLT, 2014), which applies to multiplicative factors smaller than $2$ and to $\varepsilon $ that decays polynomially in $d$. We establish similar $\mathsf{NP}$-hardness results for the case where the completed matrix is constrained to have a bounded infinity norm (rather than be positive semi-definite), for which all previous hardness results rely on complexity assumptions related to the Unique Games Conjecture. Our proofs involve a novel notion of nearly orthonormal representations of graphs, the concept of line digraphs, and bounds on the rank of perturbed identity matrices.
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