Perron-Frobenius matrix completion

The DGP atom library has several functions of positive matrices, including the trace, (matrix) product, sum, Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue, and $(I - X)^{-1}$ (eye-minus-inverse). In this notebook, we use some of these atoms to formulate and solve an interesting matrix completion problem.

In this problem, we are given some entries of an elementwise positive matrix $A$, and the goal is to choose the missing entries so as to minimize the Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue or spectral radius. Letting $\Omega$ denote the set of indices $(i, j)$ for which $A_{ij}$ is known, the optimization problem is

$$ \begin{equation} \begin{array}{ll} \mbox{minimize} & \lambda_{\text{pf}}(X) \\ \mbox{subject to} & \prod_{(i, j) \not\in \Omega} X_{ij} = 1 \\ & X_{ij} = A_{ij}, \, (i, j) \in \Omega, \end{array} \end{equation} $$

which is a log-log convex program. Below is an implementation of this problem, with specific problem data

$$ A = \begin{bmatrix} 1.0 & ? & 1.9 \\ ? & 0.8 & ? \\ 3.2 & 5.9& ? \end{bmatrix}, $$

where the question marks denote the missing entries.


In [1]:
import cvxpy as cp

n = 3
known_value_indices = tuple(zip(*[[0, 0], [0, 2], [1, 1], [2, 0], [2, 1]]))
known_values = [1.0, 1.9, 0.8, 3.2, 5.9]
X = cp.Variable((n, n), pos=True)
objective_fn = cp.pf_eigenvalue(X)
constraints = [
  X[known_value_indices] == known_values,
  X[0, 1] * X[1, 0] * X[1, 2] * X[2, 2] == 1.0,
]
problem = cp.Problem(cp.Minimize(objective_fn), constraints)
problem.solve(gp=True)
print("Optimal value: ", problem.value)
print("X:\n", X.value)


Optimal value:  4.702374203221372
X:
 [[1.         4.63616907 1.9       ]
 [0.49991744 0.8        0.37774148]
 [3.2        5.9        1.14221476]]