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  • September–October 2023
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  • INFORMS Journal on Computing

Interpretable Matrix Completion: A Discrete Optimization Approach

By: Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li
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Abstract

We consider the problem of matrix completion on an n × m matrix. We introduce the problem of interpretable matrix completion that aims to provide meaningful insights for the low-rank matrix using side information. We show that the problem can be reformulated as an optimization problem with a convex objective and binary variables. We design an algorithm called OptComplete, based on a novel concept of stochastic cutting planes to enable efficient scaling of the algorithm up to matrices of sizes n = 106 and m = 106. We prove that OptComplete converges to an optimal solution of the interpretable matrix completion problem with exponentially vanishing failure probability. We report experiments on both synthetic and real-world data sets that show that OptComplete has favorable scaling behavior and accuracy when compared with state-of-the-art methods for other types of matrix completion while providing insight on the factors that affect the matrix.

Keywords

Mathematical Methods

Citation

Bertsimas, Dimitris, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Interpretable Matrix Completion: A Discrete Optimization Approach." INFORMS Journal on Computing 35, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 952–965.
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Michael Lingzhi Li

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