Coupled Tensor-Matrix Recovery via Proximal Alternating Linearized Minimization, with an Application to Workforce Skill and Small-Business Health Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10163v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:06:08 GMT
• Title: Coupled Tensor-Matrix Recovery via Proximal Alternating Linearized Minimization, with an Application to Workforce Skill and Small-Business Health Estimation
• Abstract summary: We study recovery of a lowrank tensor $mathcalT$ and a low-rank matrix $M$ from noisy observations.<n>For the matrix only problem, we state a proven sampling-complexity result for a sequential sub-case.<n>For the fully joint, alternately-estimated case, we state a conjecture.
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• Abstract: We study recovery of a low-rank tensor $\mathcal{T}$ and a low-rank matrix $M$ from sparse, noisy observations. $\mathcal{T}$ and $M$ share one mode. We relax tensor rank using the nuclear norm of the mode-1 unfolding. This unfolding carries the coupling. It also has an exact proximal operator. We couple $\mathcal{T}$ and $M$ through a learned linear operator $G$. We prove a minimizer exists for the ridge-stabilized penalized objective. We prove that a proximal alternating linearized minimization (PALM) scheme converges to a critical point, for the algorithm as implemented, by verifying the hypotheses of a known nonconvex block-coordinate convergence theorem against our objective and identifying which conditions come from this problem's structure. For the matrix-only sub-problem, we state a proven sampling bound from matrix completion theory. For the coupled problem, we prove a sample-complexity result for a sequential sub-case: a separately-known coupling operator recovers $M$ from $\mathcal{T}$'s recovery accuracy alone, with no observations of $M$ needed. For the fully joint, alternately-estimated case, we state a conjecture and test it empirically, including a low-density regime where coupling does not help. We report multi-seed synthetic experiments with mean and standard deviation across sampling densities, an asymmetric-density experiment, and convergence curves, and we explain why recovery error stays high at low density. We apply the framework to workforce-skill and small-business-health estimation. Every application-specific choice is a proposed design, not a validated result; we have not run the framework on deployed data.

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