A dual framework for trace norm regularized low-rank tensor completion

One of the popular approaches for low-rank tensor completion is to use the latent trace norm as a low-rank regularizer. However, most of the existing works learn a sparse combination of tensors. In this work, we fill this gap by proposing a variant of the latent trace norm which helps to learn a non-sparse combination of tensors. We develop a dual framework for solving the problem of latent trace norm regularized low-rank tensor completion. In this framework, we first show a novel characterization of the solution space with a novel factorization, and then, propose two scalable optimization formulations. The problems are shown to lie on a Cartesian product of Riemannian spectrahedron manifolds. We exploit the versatile Riemannian optimization framework for proposing computationally efficient trust-region algorithms. The experiments show the good performance of the proposed algorithms on several real-world data sets in different applications.