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Randomized linear system solvers have become popular as they have the potential to reduce floating point complexity while still achieving desirable convergence rates. One particularly promising class of methods, random sketching solvers,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Vivak Patel , Mohammad Jahangoshahi , Daniel Adrian Maldonado

Motivated by the randomized sketch to solve a variety of problems in scientific computation, we improve both the maximal weighted residual Kaczmarz method and the randomized block average Kaczmarz method using two new randomized sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Haochen Jiang , Dongdong Liu , Xianping Wu , Xu Yang

Iterative sketching and sketch-and-precondition are well-established randomized algorithms for solving large-scale, over-determined linear least-squares problems. In this paper, we introduce a new perspective that interprets Iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Ruihan Xu , Yiping Lu

In this paper, we propose {\it \underline{R}ecursive} {\it \underline{I}mportance} {\it \underline{S}ketching} algorithm for {\it \underline{R}ank} constrained least squares {\it \underline{O}ptimization} (RISRO). The key step of RISRO is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Yuetian Luo , Wen Huang , Xudong Li , Anru R. Zhang

This paper describes a suite of algorithms for constructing low-rank approximations of an input matrix from a random linear image of the matrix, called a sketch. These methods can preserve structural properties of the input matrix, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

Linear regression is a classic method of data analysis. In recent years, sketching -- a method of dimension reduction using random sampling, random projections, or both -- has gained popularity as an effective computational approximation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-04 Jocelyn T. Chi , Ilse C. F. Ipsen

Sketching is a dimensionality reduction technique where one compresses a matrix by linear combinations that are chosen at random. A line of work has shown how to sketch the Hessian to speed up each iteration in a second order method, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff

We consider a sketched implementation of the finite element method for elliptic partial differential equations on high-dimensional models. Motivated by applications in real-time simulation and prediction we propose an algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Robert Lung , Yue Wu , Dimitris Kamilis , Nick Polydorides

We consider sketched approximate matrix multiplication and ridge regression in the novel setting of localized sketching, where at any given point, only part of the data matrix is available. This corresponds to a block diagonal structure on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-23 Rakshith S Srinivasa , Mark A Davenport , Justin Romberg

In this work, we study distributed sketching methods for large scale regression problems. We leverage multiple randomized sketches for reducing the problem dimensions as well as preserving privacy and improving straggler resilience in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

Random sketching is a dimensionality reduction technique that approximately preserves norms and singular values up to some $O(1)$ distortion factor with high probability. The most popular sketches in literature are the Gaussian sketch and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Andrew J. Higgins , Erik G. Boman , Ichitaro Yamazaki

We consider sketching algorithms which first compress data by multiplication with a random sketch matrix, and then apply the sketch to quickly solve an optimization problem, e.g., low-rank approximation and regression. In the learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , Simin Liu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

We propose iterative projection methods for solving square or rectangular consistent linear systems Ax = b. Existing projection methods use sketching matrices (possibly randomized) to generate a sequence of small projected subproblems, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Johannes J. Brust , Michael A. Saunders

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

There is an increasing body of work exploring the integration of random projection into algorithms for numerical linear algebra. The primary motivation is to reduce the overall computational cost of processing large datasets. A suitably…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Daniel Ahfock , William J. Astle , Sylvia Richardson

We propose a randomized algorithm with quadratic convergence rate for convex optimization problems with a self-concordant, composite, strongly convex objective function. Our method is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Jonathan Lacotte , Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

We propose new approximate alternating projection methods, based on randomized sketching, for the low-rank nonnegative matrix approximation problem: find a low-rank approximation of a nonnegative matrix that is nonnegative, but whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Sergey A. Matveev , Stanislav Budzinskiy

In second-order optimization, a potential bottleneck can be computing the Hessian matrix of the optimized function at every iteration. Randomized sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for constructing estimates of the Hessian which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Michał Dereziński , Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci , Michael W. Mahoney

We present and analyze an algorithm designed for addressing vector-valued regression problems involving possibly infinite-dimensional input and output spaces. The algorithm is a randomized adaptation of reduced rank regression, a technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Giacomo Turri , Vladimir Kostic , Pietro Novelli , Massimiliano Pontil

We study matrix sketching methods for regularized variants of linear regression, low rank approximation, and canonical correlation analysis. Our main focus is on sketching techniques which preserve the objective function value for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Haim Avron , Kenneth L. Clarkson , David P. Woodruff