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A Gaussian elimination algorithm is presented that reveals the numerical rank of a matrix by yielding small entries in the Schur complement. The algorithm uses the maximum volume concept to find a square nonsingular submatrix of maximum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Lukas Schork , Jacek Gondzio

We present a sparse linear system solver that is based on a multifrontal variant of Gaussian elimination, and exploits low-rank approximation of the resulting dense frontal matrices. We use hierarchically semiseparable (HSS) matrices, which…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye S. Li , Francois-Henry Rouet , Samuel Williams , Artem Napov

We present a parallel hierarchical solver for general sparse linear systems on distributed-memory machines. For large-scale problems, this fully algebraic algorithm is faster and more memory-efficient than sparse direct solvers because it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Chao Chen , Hadi Pouransari , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Erik G. Boman , Eric Darve

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental computation in many scientific disciplines. In this paper, we show that novel fast matrix multiplication algorithms can significantly outperform vendor implementations of the classical algorithm and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , Grey Ballard

We consider the problem of estimating a rank-one matrix in Gaussian noise under a probabilistic model for the left and right factors of the matrix. The probabilistic model can impose constraints on the factors including sparsity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Alyson K. Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan

We introduce a scalable approach to Gaussian process inference that combines spatio-temporal filtering with natural gradient variational inference, resulting in a non-conjugate GP method for multivariate data that scales linearly with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Oliver Hamelijnck , William J. Wilkinson , Niki A. Loppi , Arno Solin , Theodoros Damoulas

For sparse matrices up to size $8 \times 8$, we determine optimal choices for pivot selection in Gaussian elimination. It turns out that they are slightly better than the pivots chosen by a popular pivot selection strategy, so there is some…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Manuel Kauers , Jakob Moosbauer

We propose an efficient optimization algorithm for selecting a subset of training data to induce sparsity for Gaussian process regression. The algorithm estimates an inducing set and the hyperparameters using a single objective, either the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Yanshuai Cao , Marcus A. Brubaker , David J. Fleet , Aaron Hertzmann

The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

In this paper we present two different variants of method for symmetric matrix inversion, based on modified Gaussian elimination. Both methods avoid computation of square roots and have a reduced machine time's spending. Further, both of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Anton Kochnev , Nicolai Savelov

We introduce a new interpretation of sparse variational approximations for Gaussian processes using inducing points, which can lead to more scalable algorithms than previous methods. It is based on decomposing a Gaussian process as a sum of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-27 Jiaxin Shi , Michalis K. Titsias , Andriy Mnih

In this paper, we describe a new algorithm that approximates the extreme eigenvalue/eigenvector pairs of a symmetric matrix. The proposed algorithm can be viewed as an extension of the Jacobi eigenvalue method for symmetric matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Cristian Rusu

Generalized sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (or SpGEMM) is a key primitive for many high performance graph algorithms as well as for some linear solvers, such as algebraic multigrid. Here we show that SpGEMM also yields efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Aydin Buluc , John Gilbert

Recently, a class of algorithms combining classical fixed point iterations with repeated random sparsification of approximate solution vectors has been successfully applied to eigenproblems with matrices as large as $10^{108} \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonathan Weare , Robert J. Webber

A random matrix is likely to be well conditioned, and motivated by this well known property we employ random matrix multipliers to advance some fundamental matrix computations. This includes numerical stabilization of Gaussian elimination…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Victor Y. Pan , Guoliang Qian

The matrix completion problem aims to reconstruct a low-rank matrix based on a revealed set of possibly noisy entries. Prior works consider completing the entire matrix with generalization error guarantees. However, the completion accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Elad Hazan , Adam Tauman Kalai , Varun Kanade , Clara Mohri , Y. Jennifer Sun

Transforming a matrix over a field to echelon form, or decomposing the matrix as a product of structured matrices that reveal the rank profile, is a fundamental building block of computational exact linear algebra. This paper surveys the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-01-10 Claude-Pierre Jeannerod , Clément Pernet , Arne Storjohann

We propose methodology for statistical inference for low-dimensional parameters of sparse precision matrices in a high-dimensional setting. Our method leads to a non-sparse estimator of the precision matrix whose entries have a Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Jana Jankova , Sara van de Geer

A class of splitting alternating algorithms is proposed for finding the sparse solution of linear systems with concatenated orthogonal matrices. Depending on the number of matrices concatenated, the proposed algorithms are classified into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yun-Bin Zhao , Zhong-Feng Sun