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Sparse coding--that is, modelling data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements--is widely used in machine learning, neuroscience, signal processing, and statistics. This paper focuses on the large-scale matrix factorization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-02-11 Julien Mairal , Francis Bach , Jean Ponce , Guillermo Sapiro

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization consists in (approximately) factorizing a nonnegative data matrix by the product of two low-rank nonnegative matrices. It has been successfully applied as a data analysis technique in numerous domains, e.g.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Nicolas Gillis , François Glineur

In the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) problem, the input is an $m\times n$ matrix $M$ with non-negative entries and the goal is to factorize it as $M\approx AW$. The $m\times k$ matrix $A$ and the $k\times n$ matrix $W$ are both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Moses Charikar , Lunjia Hu

Linear algebra expressions, which play a central role in countless scientific computations, are often computed via a sequence of calls to existing libraries of building blocks (such as those provided by BLAS and LAPACK). A sequence…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Aravind Sankaran , Paolo Bientinesi

We present a fast sparse matrix permutation algorithm tailored to linear systems arising from triangle meshes. Our approach produces nested-dissection-style permutations while significantly reducing permutation runtime overhead. Rather than…

Expressions that involve matrices and vectors, known as linear algebra expressions, are commonly evaluated through a sequence of invocations to highly optimised kernels provided in libraries such as BLAS and LAPACK. A sequence of kernels…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Francisco López , Lars Karlsson , Paolo Bientinesi

Non-negative matrix factorization is a problem of dimensionality reduction and source separation of data that has been widely used in many fields since it was studied in depth in 1999 by Lee and Seung, including in compression of data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Raimon Fabregat , Nelly Pustelnik , Paulo Gonçalves , Pierre Borgnat

We consider a large family of problems in which an ordering (or, more precisely, a chain of subsets) of a finite set must be chosen to minimize some weighted sum of costs. This family includes variations of Min Sum Set Cover (MSSC), several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Felix Happach , Lisa Hellerstein , Thomas Lidbetter

We consider the problem of finding the optimal coefficient vector that maximizes the computation rate at a relay in the compute-and-forward scheme. Based on the idea of sphere decoding, we propose a highly efficient algorithm that finds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jinming Wen , Baojian Zhou , Wai Ho Mow , Xiao-Wen Chang

We investigate the problem of factorizing a matrix into several sparse matrices and propose an algorithm for this under randomness and sparsity assumptions. This problem can be viewed as a simplification of the deep learning problem where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Behnam Neyshabur , Rina Panigrahy

In this paper an approach for finding a sparse incomplete Cholesky factor through an incomplete orthogonal factorization with Givens rotations is discussed and applied to Gaussian Markov random fields (GMRFs). The incomplete Cholesky factor…

Computation · Statistics 2013-07-05 Xiangping Hu , Daniel Simpson , Håvard Rue

Tensor factorizations are computationally hard problems, and in particular, are often significantly harder than their matrix counterparts. In case of Boolean tensor factorizations -- where the input tensor and all the factors are required…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Saskia Metzler , Pauli Miettinen

Binary quadratic programming problems have attracted much attention in the last few decades due to their potential applications. This type of problems are NP-hard in general, and still considered a challenge in the design of efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Khaled Elbassioni , Trung Thanh Nguyen

This work is about rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR-type algorithms for sparse matrices. We often encounter QR factorization of the sparse matrices in many real problems. In this work, we focus on some typical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Haoran Guan , Yuwei Fan

Inspired by regularization techniques in statistics and machine learning, we study complementary composite minimization in the stochastic setting. This problem corresponds to the minimization of the sum of a (weakly) smooth function endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Cristóbal Guzmán , Clément Lezane

The increasing size of transformer-based models in NLP makes the question of compressing them important. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of factorization based model compression techniques. Specifically, we focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ashim Gupta , Sina Mahdipour Saravani , P. Sadayappan , Vivek Srikumar

Mining and exploring databases should provide users with knowledge and new insights. Tiles of data strive to unveil true underlying structure and distinguish valuable information from various kinds of noise. We propose a novel Boolean…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Sibylle Hess , Katharina Morik , Nico Piatkowski

Nonnegative matrix factorization arises widely in machine learning and data analysis. In this paper, for a given factorization of rank r, we consider the sparse stochastic matrix factorization (SSMF) of decomposing a prescribed m-by-n…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Guiyun Xiao , Zheng-Jian Bai , Wai-Ki Ching

We consider the numerical evaluation of the quantity $Af(A^{-1}B)$, where $A$ is Hermitian positive definite, $B$ is Hermitian, and $f$ is a function defined on the spectrum of $A^{-1}B$. This problem is related to the Hermitian-definite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Dario A. Bini , Massimiliano Fasi , Bruno Iannazzo

Low Rank Approximation is among most fundamental subjects of numerical linear algebra having important applications to various areas of modern computing and %they range from machine learning theory and %neural networks to data mining and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Victor Y. Pan , Qi Luan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao