@article{scaledgradientdescentforillconditionedlo, title = {Scaled Gradient Descent for Ill-Conditioned Low-Rank Matrix Recovery with Optimal Sampling Complexity}, author = {Zhenxuan Li and Meng Huang}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.00060}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00060}, }