Abstract
The low-rank approximation of a quaternion matrix has attracted growing attention in many applications including color image processing and signal processing. In this paper, based on quaternion normal distribution random sampling, we propose a randomized quaternion QLP decomposition algorithm for computing a low-rank approximation to a quaternion data matrix. For the theoretical analysis, we first present convergence results of the quaternion QLP decomposition, which provides slightly tighter upper bounds than the existing ones for the real QLP decomposition. Then, for the randomized quaternion QLP decomposition, the matrix approximation error and the singular value approximation error analyses are also established to show the proposed randomized algorithm can track the singular values of the quaternion data matrix with high probability. Finally, we present some numerical examples to illustrate the effectiveness and reliablity of the proposed algorithm.
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Ren, H., Ma, RR., Liu, Q. et al. Randomized Quaternion QLP Decomposition for Low-Rank Approximation. J Sci Comput 92, 80 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-022-01917-5
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