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Non-linear least squares solvers are used across a broad range of offline and real-time model fitting problems. Most improvements of the basic Gauss-Newton algorithm tackle convergence guarantees or leverage the sparsity of the underlying…

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We introduce a new, quadratically convergent algorithm for finding maximum absolute value entries of tensors represented in the canonical format. The computational complexity of the algorithm is linear in the dimension of the tensor. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Matthew J Reynolds , Gregory Beylkin , Alireza Doostan

The (efficient and parsimonious) decomposition of higher-order tensors is a fundamental problem with numerous applications in a variety of fields. Several methods have been proposed in the literature to that end, with the Tucker and PARAFAC…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Sergio Rozada , Antonio G. Marques

Due to the explosive growth of large-scale data sets, tensors have been a vital tool to analyze and process high-dimensional data. Different from the matrix case, tensor decomposition has been defined in various formats, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Rachel Grotheer , Shuang Li , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell , Jing Qin

In this paper, we propose an efficient numerical approach for solving a specific type of quartic inhomogeneous polynomial optimization problem inspired by practical applications. The primary contribution of this work lies in establishing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Haibin Chen , Yixuan Chen , Chunyan Wang , Qi Fan

In this paper, we discuss the acceleration of the regularized alternating least square (RALS) algorithm for tensor approximation. We propose a fast iterative method using a Aitken-Stefensen like updates for the regularized algorithm.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Xiaofei Wang , Carmeliza Navasca , Stefan Kindermann

Multiway data often naturally occurs in a tensorial format which can be approximately represented by a low-rank tensor decomposition. This is useful because complexity can be significantly reduced and the treatment of large-scale data sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Clara Menzen , Manon Kok , Kim Batselier

This paper introduces a randomized variation of the alternating least squares (ALS) algorithm for rank reduction of canonical tensor formats. The aim is to address the potential numerical ill-conditioning of least squares matrices at each…

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We study randomized sketching methods for approximately solving least-squares problem with a general convex constraint. The quality of a least-squares approximation can be assessed in different ways: either in terms of the value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

The computation of the ground state (i.e. the eigenvector related to the smallest eigenvalue) is an important task in the simulation of quantum many-body systems. As the dimension of the underlying vector space grows exponentially in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-24 T. Huckle , K. Waldherr , T. Schulte-Herbrueggen

Tensor decompositions such as the canonical format and the tensor train format have been widely utilized to reduce storage costs and operational complexities for high-dimensional data, achieving linear scaling with the input dimension…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Oscar Mickelin , Sertac Karaman

We show how to construct nonnegative low-rank approximations of nonnegative tensors in Tucker and tensor train formats. We use alternating projections between the nonnegative orthant and the set of low-rank tensors, using STHOSVD and TTSVD…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Azamat Sultonov , Sergey Matveev , Stanislav Budzinskiy

Stochastic Alternating Least Squares (SALS) is a method that approximates the canonical decomposition of averages of sampled random tensors. Its simplicity and efficient memory usage make SALS an ideal tool for decomposing tensors in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Yanzhao Cao , Somak Das , Luke Oeding , Hans-Werner van Wyk

We consider the problem of solving mixed random linear equations with $k$ components. This is the noiseless setting of mixed linear regression. The goal is to estimate multiple linear models from mixed samples in the case where the labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Xinyang Yi , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

In many applications such as data compression, imaging or genomic data analysis, it is important to approximate a given tensor by a tensor that is sparsely representable. For matrices, i.e. 2-tensors, such a representation can be obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Shmuel Friedland , Venu Tammali

Unlike the matrix case, computing low-rank approximations of tensors is NP-hard and numerically ill-posed in general. Even the best rank-1 approximation of a tensor is NP-hard. In this paper, we use convex optimization to develop…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Anil Aswani

The graphical representation of the correlation matrix by means of different multivariate statistical methods is reviewed, a comparison of the different procedures is presented with the use of an example data set, and an improved…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-24 Jan Graffelman , Jan de Leeuw

Tensor network contractions are widely used in statistical physics, quantum computing, and computer science. We introduce a method to efficiently approximate tensor network contractions using low-rank approximations, where each intermediate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-01 Linjian Ma , Matthew Fishman , Miles Stoudenmire , Edgar Solomonik

In applications, a substantial number of problems can be formulated as non-linear least squares problems over smooth varieties. Unlike the usual least squares problem over a Euclidean space, the non-linear least squares problem over a…

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