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Unlike popular alternative functionals for tensor decomposition, the SPM objective function has the desirable properties that its maximal value is known in advance, and its global optima are exactly the rank-1 components of the tensor when the input is sufficiently low-rank. We analyze the non-convex optimization landscape associated with the SPM objective. Our analysis accounts for working with noisy tensors. We derive quantitative bounds such that any second-order critical point with SPM objective value exceeding the bound must equal a tensor component in the noiseless case, and must approximate a tensor component in the noisy case. For decomposing tensors of size $D^{\\times m}$, we obtain a near-global guarantee up to rank $\\widetilde{o}(D^{\\lfloor m/2 \\rfloor})$ under a random tensor model, and a global guarantee up to rank $\\mathcal{O}(D)$ assuming deterministic frame conditions. 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