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Sparsity is a fundamental modeling principle in statistics, signal processing, and data science. However, optimization with sparsity constraints is notoriously difficult. We introduce a new convex relaxation framework for {sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Diego Cifuentes , Zhuorui Li

We present and analyze a simple, two-step algorithm to approximate the optimal solution of the sparse PCA problem. Our approach first solves a L1 penalized version of the NP-hard sparse PCA optimization problem and then uses a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Kimon Fountoulakis , Abhisek Kundu , Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou , Petros Drineas

A fast algorithm for the approximation of a low rank LU decomposition is presented. In order to achieve a low complexity, the algorithm uses sparse random projections combined with FFT-based random projections. The asymptotic approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Yariv Aizenbud , Gil Shabat , Amir Averbuch

By exploiting the random sampling techniques, this paper derives an efficient randomized algorithm for computing a generalized CUR decomposition, which provides low-rank approximations of both matrices simultaneously in terms of some of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-07 Zhengbang Cao , Yimin Wei , Pengpeng Xie

We introduce a novel algorithm that computes the $k$-sparse principal component of a positive semidefinite matrix $A$. Our algorithm is combinatorial and operates by examining a discrete set of special vectors lying in a low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-09 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Stavros Korokythakis

CUR and low-rank approximations are among most fundamental subjects of numerical linear algebra, with a wide range of applications to a variety of highly important areas of modern computing, which range from the machine learning theory and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Victor Y. Pan

A CUR approximation of a matrix $A$ is a particular type of low-rank approximation $A \approx C U R$, where $C$ and $R$ consist of columns and rows of $A$, respectively. One way to obtain such an approximation is to apply column subset…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Alice Cortinovis , Daniel Kressner

Commonly used in computer vision and other applications, robust PCA represents an algorithmic attempt to reduce the sensitivity of classical PCA to outliers. The basic idea is to learn a decomposition of some data matrix of interest into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Tae-Hyun Oh , Yasuyuki Matsushita , In So Kweon , David Wipf

Previous versions of sparse principal component analysis (PCA) have presumed that the eigen-basis (a $p \times k$ matrix) is approximately sparse. We propose a method that presumes the $p \times k$ matrix becomes approximately sparse after…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-07 Fan Chen , Karl Rohe

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a dimension reduction technique. It produces inconsistent estimators when the dimensionality is moderate to high, which is often the problem in modern large-scale applications where algorithm…

Computation · Statistics 2016-01-29 Qiaoya Zhang , Yiyuan She

CUR decompositions approximate a matrix using selected columns, rows, and their intersection. Classical CUR theory provides exactness results for low-rank matrices and perturbation bounds controlled by the size of the noise. In this work we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Longxiu Huang

Matrix decompositions are fundamental tools in the area of applied mathematics, statistical computing, and machine learning. In particular, low-rank matrix decompositions are vital, and widely used for data analysis, dimensionality…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-28 N. Benjamin Erichson , Sergey Voronin , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

This paper introduces a novel approach to approximating continuous functions over high-dimensional hypercubes by integrating matrix CUR decomposition with hyperinterpolation techniques. Traditional Fourier-based hyperinterpolation methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Maolin Che , Congpei An , Yimin Wei , Hong Yan

Since the introduction of the lasso in regression, various sparse methods have been developed in an unsupervised context like sparse principal component analysis (s-PCA), sparse canonical correlation analysis (s-CCA) and sparse singular…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-09 Ruiping Liu , Ndeye Niang , Gilbert Saporta , Huiwen Wang

A CUR factorization is often utilized as a substitute for the singular value decomposition (SVD), especially when a concrete interpretation of the singular vectors is challenging. Moreover, if the original data matrix possesses properties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Perfect Y. Gidisu , Michiel E. Hochstenbach

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique wherein one seeks a low-rank representation of a data matrix with additional sparsity constraints on the obtained representation. We consider two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

Interpolative and CUR decompositions involve "natural bases" of row and column subsets, or skeletons, of a given matrix that approximately span its row and column spaces. These low-rank decompositions preserve properties such as sparsity or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Katherine J. Pearce , Chao Chen , Yijun Dong , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Regularized variants of Principal Components Analysis, especially Sparse PCA and Functional PCA, are among the most useful tools for the analysis of complex high-dimensional data. Many examples of massive data, have both sparse and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-21 Genevera I. Allen , Michael Weylandt

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-established dimensionality reduction technique that is often used for unsupervised feature selection (UFS). However, determining the regularization parameters is rather challenging, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Long Chen , Xianchao Xiu

Given two sets of variables, derived from a common set of samples, sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) seeks linear combinations of a small number of variables in each set, such that the induced canonical variables are maximally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-31 Megasthenis Asteris , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Russell Poldrack