Sufficient recovery conditions for noise-buried low rank tensors
Sergey Petrov, Nikolai Zamarashkin
TL;DR
This work addresses the problem of recovering low-rank tensor structure from noisy measurements by deriving a probabilistic bound on the recovery error that decays with tensor dimensionality. It introduces a Gaussian width framework with a sufficient approximation condition and analyzes the rank-2 canonical tensor case, obtaining a bound of the form $\mathbb{P}\{ \sup_{\mathrm{rank}(\mathbf V) \le 2, \|\mathbf V\|_F = 1} ( {\bf N}, \mathbf V )_F > \mu \sqrt{m d^2 \ln m} + t \} \le e^{-t^2/4} + 2 e^{-m^{d/2}/8}$, modulo constants. The results indicate that high-dimensional low-rank tensor representations can outperform matrices with the same rank and element count in filtering noise, supported by numerical experiments for canonical, Tensor-Train, and Tucker formats that exhibit consistent scaling with the number of representation parameters. These findings have practical impact for wireless communications and other high-dimensional data settings, where tensorization and quantization can substantially enhance denoising performance.
Abstract
Low-rank tensor approximation error bounds are proposed for the case of noisy input data that depend on low-rank representation type, rank and the dimensionality of the tensor. The bounds show that high-dimensional low-rank structured approximations provide superior noise-filtering properties compared to matrices with the same rank and total element count.
