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This note discusses an interesting matrix factorization called the CUR Decomposition. We illustrate various viewpoints of this method by comparing and contrasting them in different situations. Additionally, we offer a new characterization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Keaton Hamm , Longxiu Huang

A low-rank approximation of a parameter-dependent matrix $A(t)$ is an important task in the computational sciences appearing for example in dynamical systems and compression of a series of images. In this work, we introduce AdaCUR, an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Taejun Park , Yuji Nakatsukasa

Sparse principal component analysis (sparse PCA) is a widely used technique for dimensionality reduction in multivariate analysis, addressing two key limitations of standard PCA. First, sparse PCA can be implemented in high-dimensional low…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Jan O. Bauer

Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a linear combination of the input variables while constraining the number of nonzero coefficients in this combination. This is known as sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Youwei Zhang , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimensionality reduction technique for obtaining principal components which are linear combinations of a small subset of the original features. Existing approaches cannot supply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

We consider a linear regression $y=X\beta+u$ where $X\in\mathbb{\mathbb{{R}}}^{n\times p}$, $p\gg n,$ and $\beta$ is $s$-sparse. Motivated by examples in financial and economic data, we consider the situation where $X$ has highly correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Behrooz Ghorbani , Ozgur Yilmaz

The sparse factorization of a large matrix is fundamental in modern statistical learning. In particular, the sparse singular value decomposition and its variants have been utilized in multivariate regression, factor analysis, biclustering,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-19 Kun Chen , Ruipeng Dong , Wanwan Xu , Zemin Zheng

We derive a CUR matrix factorization based on the Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method (DEIM). For a given matrix $A$, such a factorization provides a low rank approximate decomposition of the form $A \approx C U R$, where $C$ and $R$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-22 D. C. Sorensen , M. Embree

A general framework for solving the subspace clustering problem using the CUR decomposition is presented. The CUR decomposition provides a natural way to construct similarity matrices for data that come from a union of unknown subspaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Akram Aldroubi , Keaton Hamm , Ahmet Bugra Koku , Ali Sekmen

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction technique in machine learning and multivariate statistics. To improve the interpretability of PCA, various approaches to obtain sparse principal direction loadings have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Agniva Chowdhury , Petros Drineas , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Sparse PCA is the optimization problem obtained from PCA by adding a sparsity constraint on the principal components. Sparse PCA is NP-hard and hard to approximate even in the single-component case. In this paper we settle the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Alberto Del Pia

The manuscript describes efficient algorithms for the computation of the CUR and ID decompositions. The methods used are based on simple modifications to the classical truncated pivoted QR decomposition, which means that highly optimized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Sergey Voronin , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has received massive attention in recent years. It aims to recover a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix from their sum. This paper proposes a novel nonconvex Robust PCA algorithm, coined Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Keaton Hamm , Mohamed Meskini , HanQin Cai

Sparse principal component analysis (sparse PCA) aims at finding a sparse basis to improve the interpretability over the dense basis of PCA, meanwhile the sparse basis should cover the data subspace as much as possible. In contrast to most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Zhenfang Hu , Gang Pan , Yueming Wang , Zhaohui Wu

A common problem in large-scale data analysis is to approximate a matrix using a combination of specifically sampled rows and columns, known as CUR decomposition. Unfortunately, in many real-world environments, the ability to sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Urvashi Oswal , Swayambhoo Jain , Kevin S. Xu , Brian Eriksson

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (sPCA) is a popular matrix factorization approach based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that combines variance maximization and sparsity with the ultimate goal of improving data interpretation. When…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-19 J. Camacho , A. K. Smilde , E. Saccenti , J. A. Westerhuis

Sparse PCA provides a linear combination of small number of features that maximizes variance across data. Although Sparse PCA has apparent advantages compared to PCA, such as better interpretability, it is generally thought to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-10-29 Youwei Zhang , Laurent El Ghaoui

Random sampling is a fundamental tool in modern machine learning and numerical linear algebra for reducing the computational cost of large-scale matrix problems. Existing analyses, however, rely primarily on subspace embedding guarantees,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chengmei Niu , Sachin Garg , Michał Dereziński , Zhenyu Liao

The computation of accurate low-rank matrix approximations is central to improving the scalability of various techniques in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and control. Traditionally, low-rank approximations are constructed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Nathaniel Pritchard , Taejun Park , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

This article studies how to form CUR decompositions of low-rank matrices via primarily random sampling, though deterministic methods due to previous works are illustrated as well. The primary problem is to determine when a column submatrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Keaton Hamm , Longxiu Huang