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Main Authors: Führling, Niclas, Rexhepi, Getuar, Abreu, Giuseppe
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05802
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author Führling, Niclas
Rexhepi, Getuar
Abreu, Giuseppe
author_facet Führling, Niclas
Rexhepi, Getuar
Abreu, Giuseppe
contents We consider a novel algorithm, for the completion of partially observed low-rank tensors, where each entry of the tensor can be chosen from a discrete finite alphabet set, such as in common image processing problems, where the entries represent the RGB values. The proposed low-rank tensor completion (TC) method builds on the conventional nuclear norm (NN) minimization-based low-rank TC paradigm, through the addition of a discrete-aware regularizer, which enforces discreteness in the objective of the problem, by an $\ell_0$-norm regularizer that is approximated by a continuous and differentiable function normalized via fractional programming (FP) under a proximal gradient (PG) framework, in order to solve the proposed problem. Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the new method both in terms of normalized mean square error (NMSE) and convergence, compared to the conventional state of-the-art (SotA) techniques, including NN minimization approaches, as well as a mixture of the latter with a matrix factorization approach.
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spellingShingle Discrete Aware Tensor Completion via Convexized $\ell_0$-Norm Approximation
Führling, Niclas
Rexhepi, Getuar
Abreu, Giuseppe
Signal Processing
Information Theory
We consider a novel algorithm, for the completion of partially observed low-rank tensors, where each entry of the tensor can be chosen from a discrete finite alphabet set, such as in common image processing problems, where the entries represent the RGB values. The proposed low-rank tensor completion (TC) method builds on the conventional nuclear norm (NN) minimization-based low-rank TC paradigm, through the addition of a discrete-aware regularizer, which enforces discreteness in the objective of the problem, by an $\ell_0$-norm regularizer that is approximated by a continuous and differentiable function normalized via fractional programming (FP) under a proximal gradient (PG) framework, in order to solve the proposed problem. Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the new method both in terms of normalized mean square error (NMSE) and convergence, compared to the conventional state of-the-art (SotA) techniques, including NN minimization approaches, as well as a mixture of the latter with a matrix factorization approach.
title Discrete Aware Tensor Completion via Convexized $\ell_0$-Norm Approximation
topic Signal Processing
Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05802