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In light of recent data science trends, new interest has fallen in alternative matrix factorizations. By this, we mean various ways of factorizing particular data matrices so that the factors have special properties and reveal insights into…
Low-rank matrix approximation is extremely useful in the analysis of data that arises in scientific computing, engineering applications, and data science. However, as data sizes grow, traditional low-rank matrix approximation methods, such…
We propose a flexible and theoretically supported framework for scalable nonnegative matrix factorization. The goal is to find nonnegative low-rank components directly from compressed measurements, accessing the original data only once or…
The randomized singular value decomposition (RSVD) is by now a well established technique for efficiently computing an approximate singular value decomposition of a matrix. Building on the ideas that underpin the RSVD, the recently proposed…
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…
We present randUBV, a randomized algorithm for matrix sketching based on the block Lanzcos bidiagonalization process. Given a matrix $\bf{A}$, it produces a low-rank approximation of the form ${\bf UBV}^T$, where $\bf{U}$ and $\bf{V}$ have…
We propose an algorithm for solving nonlinear convex programs defined in terms of a symmetric positive semidefinite matrix variable $X$. This algorithm rests on the factorization $X=Y Y^T$, where the number of columns of Y fixes the rank of…
We present two new algorithms for Householder QR factorization of Block Low-Rank (BLR) matrices: one that performs block-column-wise QR, and another that is based on tiled QR. We show how the block-column-wise algorithm exploits BLR…
Square matrices appear in many machine learning problems and models. Optimization over a large square matrix is expensive in memory and in time. Therefore an economic approximation is needed. Conventional approximation approaches factorize…
We consider the problem of approximating an affinely structured matrix, for example a Hankel matrix, by a low-rank matrix with the same structure. This problem occurs in system identification, signal processing and computer algebra, among…
In this paper, we present several descent methods that can be applied to nonnegative matrix factorization and we analyze a recently developped fast block coordinate method called Rank-one Residue Iteration (RRI). We also give a comparison…
We overcome two major bottlenecks in the study of low rank approximation by assuming the low rank factors themselves are sparse. Specifically, (1) for low rank approximation with spectral norm error, we show how to improve the best known…
We consider relative error low rank approximation of $tensors$ with respect to the Frobenius norm: given an order-$q$ tensor $A \in \mathbb{R}^{\prod_{i=1}^q n_i}$, output a rank-$k$ tensor $B$ for which $\|A-B\|_F^2 \leq (1+\epsilon)$OPT,…
Rank minimization is of interest in machine learning applications such as recommender systems and robust principal component analysis. Minimizing the convex relaxation to the rank minimization problem, the nuclear norm, is an effective…
A Random SubMatrix method (RSM) is proposed to calculate the low-rank decomposition of large-scale matrices with known entry percentage \rho. RSM is very fast as the floating-point operations (flops) required are compared favorably with the…
In this paper, we introduce an efficient algorithm for column subset selection that combines the column-pivoted QR factorization with sparse subspace embeddings. The proposed method, SE-QRSC, is particularly effective for wide matrices with…
This article introduces randomized block Gram-Schmidt process (RBGS) for QR decomposition. RBGS extends the single-vector randomized Gram-Schmidt (RGS) algorithm and inherits its key characteristics such as being more efficient and having…
This paper extends the framework of randomised matrix multiplication to a coarser partition and proposes an algorithm as a complement to the classical algorithm, especially when the optimal probability distribution of the latter one is…
We present new algorithms for the randomized construction of hierarchically semi-separable matrices, addressing several practical issues. The HSS construction algorithms use a partially matrix-free, adaptive randomized projection scheme to…
Low rank matrix approximation is a popular topic in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for this topic by minimizing the least-squares estimation over the Riemannian manifold of fixed-rank matrices. The algorithm is…