Robust Low-Rank Tensor Completion based on M-product with Weighted Correlated Total Variation and Sparse Regularization

Low-rank tensor factorization provides a flexible framework for completing multidimensional data from incomplete and corrupted observations. However, unweighted spectral regularizers impose a common shrinkage profile across singular components, which may excessively attenuate dominant low-rank components, and factorized variants either lack component-specific weighting or require costly singular value decompositions (SVDs). This paper proposes two weighted Schatten-$p$ tensor factorization models, termed \WSpTFI{} and \WSpTFII{}, under the tensor-tensor product (t-product) framework to address these limitations. \WSpTFI{} is motivated by a factorized weighted tensor Schatten-$p$ norm identity and permits flexible, possibly asymmetric factor exponents. \WSpTFII{} constructs a regularizer from transform-domain column-pair energies, yielding SVD-free main factor updates and a column-pruning mechanism for reducing redundant rank components. This paper further develops an iteratively reweighted alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM)-type scheme for \WSpTFI{} and an iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS)--block successive upper-bound minimization (BSUM) scheme for \WSpTFII{}. Theoretical analysis establishes the weighted factorization relation and provides a conditional limiting Karush--Kuhn--Tucker (KKT) characterization for \WSpTFI{}. For \WSpTFII{}, the actual damped quadratic block updates yield a quantitative sufficient-decrease mechanism for the fixed-$δ$ smoothed factor objective. This implies asymptotic regularity, and every accumulation point of the fixed-dimensional tail is stationary. Experiments on synthetic tensor completion, color-image restoration, hyperspectral inpainting, and printed-circuit-board defect detection demonstrate competitive reconstruction quality and robustness under various degradation conditions.

We consider a novel algorithm, for the completion of partially observed low-rank tensors, as a generalization of matrix completion. The proposed low-rank tensor completion (TC) method builds on the conventional nuclear norm (NN) minimization-based low-rank TC paradigm, by leveraging the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) optimization framework. To that extend the original NN minimization problem is reformulated into multiple subproblems, which are then solved iteratively via closed-form proximal operators, making use of over-relaxation and an adaptive penalty parameter update scheme, to further speed up convergence and improve the overall performance of the method. Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the new method in terms of normalized mean square error (NMSE), 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, while its convergence can be significantly improved by initializing the algorithm with the solution of the SotA.

Robust tensor completion recovers multidimensional data from partial observations corrupted by sparse gross errors. Existing convolutional low-rank models typically construct translated copies using circular continuation, which introduces artificial wrap-around neighborhoods for finite nonperiodic data. We propose reflective convolution nuclear norm minimization (RCNNM), which replaces circular shifts with endpoint-nonrepeating reflection. The resulting lifting has nonuniform entry multiplicities and satisfies a weighted Gram identity that supports both the recovery analysis and the optimization method. Under random sampling and sparse corruption, we establish high-probability exact recovery of the underlying tensor and sparse errors, together with stability under bounded dense perturbations. We further develop a two-block ADMM with a closed-form entrywise tensor update, while singular-value thresholding is implemented through the smaller right Gram matrix. Experiments on synthetic tensors, BSDS color images, and CAVE multispectral images show that RCNNM consistently improves over its circular-lifting counterpart, with the clearest gains near image boundaries. In particular, average boundary-PSNR improvements reach 3.26 dB while global reconstruction quality remains competitive.