“…Several forms of the regularization operator L are presented in [12,14] and here we focus on L = I, an identity tensor throughout this paper. The operator * denotes the tensor-tensor t-product introduced in the seminal work [6,7], which has been proved to be a useful tool with a large number of applications, such as image processing [6,11,16,18], signal processing [1,9,10], tensor recovery and robust tensor PCA [8,9], data completion and denoising [4,10,19]. Compared to the tensor least squares (t-LS) of the form min…”