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Recently, Bessa et al. (PODS 2023) showed that sketches based on coordinated weighted sampling theoretically and empirically outperform popular linear sketching methods like Johnson-Lindentrauss projection and CountSketch for the ubiquitous…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Majid Daliri , Juliana Freire , Christopher Musco , Aécio Santos , Haoxiang Zhang

We propose a new random sketching approach for embedding high-dimensional Hilbert-Schmidt operators, using random input-output pairs. Such operator can then be approximated in a low-dimensional subspace of operators by solving a small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Oleg Balabanov , Anthony Nouy , Alexandre Pasco

Let $X$ be a set of $n$ points of norm at most $1$ in the Euclidean space $R^k$, and suppose $\varepsilon>0$. An $\varepsilon$-distance sketch for $X$ is a data structure that, given any two points of $X$ enables one to recover the square…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Noga Alon , Bo'az Klartag

Learning distributed representations for nodes in graphs is a crucial primitive in network analysis with a wide spectrum of applications. Linear graph embedding methods learn such representations by optimizing the likelihood of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Yihan Gao , Chao Zhang , Jian Peng , Aditya Parameswaran

We study the problem of residual error estimation for matrix and vector norms using a linear sketch. Such estimates can be used, for example, to quickly assess how useful a more expensive low-rank approximation computation will be. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff

Learning the embedding space, where semantically similar objects are located close together and dissimilar objects far apart, is a cornerstone of many computer vision applications. Existing approaches usually learn a single metric in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Vadim Tschernezki , Uta Büchler , Björn Ommer

The metric sketching problem is defined as follows. Given a metric on $n$ points, and $\epsilon>0$, we wish to produce a small size data structure (sketch) that, given any pair of point indices, recovers the distance between the points up…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

We consider the following oblivious sketching problem: given $\epsilon \in (0,1/3)$ and $n \geq d/\epsilon^2$, design a distribution $\mathcal{D}$ over $\mathbb{R}^{k \times nd}$ and a function $f: \mathbb{R}^k \times \mathbb{R}^{nd}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yi Li , David P. Woodruff

In all state-of-the-art sketching and coreset techniques for clustering, as well as in the best known fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithms, randomness plays a key role. For the classic $k$-median and $k$-means problems, there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

Linear algebraic operations are ubiquitous in engineering applications, and arise often in a variety of fields including statistical signal processing and machine learning. With contemporary large datasets, to perform linear algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Neophytos Charalambides , Arya Mazumdar

Quantifying the degree of dissimilarity between two probability distributions on a finite metric space is a fundamental task in Computer Science and Computer Vision. A natural dissimilarity measure based on optimal transport is the Earth…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Chris Gartland , Mikhail Ostrovskii

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the distance between any two large data streams in small- space constraint. This problem is of utmost importance in data intensive monitoring applications where input streams are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Emmanuelle Anceaume , Yann Busnel

In this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of $n$ points $\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} problem is to find a $k$ dimensional subspace that best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aditya Bhaskara , Sepideh Mahabadi , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma is a fundamental result in dimensionality reduction, ensuring that any finite set $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ can be embedded into a lower-dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^k$ while approximately preserving…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Rafael Chiclana , Mark Iwen

Similarity query is the family of queries based on some similarity metrics. Unlike the traditional database queries which are mostly based on value equality, similarity queries aim to find targets "similar enough to" the given data objects,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifan Wang

Randomized subspace embedding methods have had a great impact on the solution of a linear least squares (LS) problem by reducing its row dimension, leading to a randomized or sketched LS (sLS) problem, and use the solution of the sLS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Zhongxiao Jia , Xinyuan Wan

Sketch-and-project is a framework which unifies many known iterative methods for solving linear systems and their variants, as well as further extensions to non-linear optimization problems. It includes popular methods such as randomized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Michał Dereziński , Elizaveta Rebrova

Representation learning using network embedding has received tremendous attention due to its efficacy to solve downstream tasks. Popular embedding methods (such as deepwalk, node2vec, LINE) are based on a neural architecture, thus unable to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Debajyoti Bera , Rameshwar Pratap , Bhisham Dev Verma , Biswadeep Sen , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Metric embeddings are a widely used method in algorithm design, where generally a ``complex'' metric is embedded into a simpler, lower-dimensional one. Historically, the theoretical computer science community has focused on bi-Lipschitz…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ainesh Bakshi , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Samuel B. Hopkins , Rajesh Jayaram , Silvio Lattanzi

Sketching is a probabilistic data compression technique that has been largely developed in the computer science community. Numerical operations on big datasets can be intolerably slow; sketching algorithms address this issue by generating a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-04 Daniel Ahfock , William J. Astle , Sylvia Richardson