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A Note on Element-wise Matrix Sparsification via a Matrix-valued Bernstein Inequality

Data Structures and Algorithms 2012-10-05 v2

Abstract

Given an n x n matrix A, we present a simple, element-wise sparsification algorithm that zeroes out all sufficiently small elements of A and then retains some of the remaining elements with probabilities proportional to the square of their magnitudes. We analyze the approximation accuracy of the proposed algorithm using a recent, elegant non-commutative Bernstein inequality, and compare our bounds with all existing (to the best of our knowledge) element-wise matrix sparsification algorithms.

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@article{arxiv.1006.0407,
  title  = {A Note on Element-wise Matrix Sparsification via a Matrix-valued Bernstein Inequality},
  author = {Petros Drineas and Anastasios Zouzias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.0407},
  year   = {2012}
}

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8 pages

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