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This paper introduces an efficient and robust method for discovering interpretable circuits in large language models using discrete sparse autoencoders. Our approach addresses key limitations of existing techniques, namely computational…

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We propose to compute a sparse approximate inverse Cholesky factor $L$ of a dense covariance matrix $\Theta$ by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the Gaussian distributions $\mathcal{N}(0, \Theta)$ and $\mathcal{N}(0,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Florian Schäfer , Matthias Katzfuss , Houman Owhadi

A novel compressed matrix format is proposed that combines an adaptive hierarchical partitioning of the matrix with low-rank approximation. One typical application is the approximation of discretized functions on rectangular domains; the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Stefano Massei , Leonardo Robol , Daniel Kressner

In this paper, we assess the performance of adaptive and nested factorized sparse approximate inverses as smoothers in multilevel V-cycles, when smoothing is performed following the Chebyshev iteration of the fourth kind. For our test…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Pablo Jiménez Recio , Marc Alexander Schweitzer

The need for fast sparse optimization is emerging, e.g., to deal with large-dimensional data-driven problems and to track time-varying systems. In the framework of linear sparse optimization, the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Diego Regruto

We propose a low-rank tensor approach to approximate linear transport and nonlinear Vlasov solutions and their associated flow maps. The approach takes advantage of the fact that the differential operators in the Vlasov equation is tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Wei Guo , Jing-Mei Qiu

The computational cost of many signal processing and machine learning techniques is often dominated by the cost of applying certain linear operators to high-dimensional vectors. This paper introduces an algorithm aimed at reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Luc Le Magoarou , Rémi Gribonval

We present FLOP (Fast Learning of Order and Parents), a score-based causal discovery algorithm for linear models. It pairs fast parent selection with iterative Cholesky-based score updates, cutting run-times over prior algorithms. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-02 Marcel Wienöbst , Leonard Henckel , Sebastian Weichwald

Interior-point methods for linear programming problems require the repeated solution of a linear system of equations. Solving these linear systems is non-trivial due to the severe ill-conditioning of the matrices towards convergence. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jeffrey Cornelis , Wim Vanroose

Based on a new atomic norm, we propose a new convex formulation for sparse matrix factorization problems in which the number of nonzero elements of the factors is assumed fixed and known. The formulation counts sparse PCA with multiple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-05 Emile Richard , Guillaume Obozinski , Jean-Philippe Vert

We present factorization and solution phases for a new linear complexity direct solver designed for concurrent batch operations on fine-grained parallel architectures, for matrices amenable to hierarchical representation. We focus on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wajih Boukaram , David Keyes , Sherry Li , Yang Liu , George Turkiyyah

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

In this paper, a weak Local Linearization scheme for Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) with multiplicative noise is introduced. First, for a time discretization, the solution of the SDE is locally approximated by the solution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 J. C. Jimenez , C. Mora , M. Selva

Matrix factorization exploits the idea that, in complex high-dimensional data, the actual signal typically lies in lower-dimensional structures. These lower dimensional objects provide useful insight, with interpretability favored by sparse…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-14 Lorenzo Schiavon , Bernardo Nipoti , Antonio Canale

This paper addresses identification of sparse linear and noise-driven continuous-time state-space systems, i.e., the right-hand sides in the dynamical equations depend only on a subset of the states. The key assumption in this study, is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Zuogong Yue , Johan Thunberg , Lennart Ljung , Jorge Goncalves

Sparse tensors are prevalent in many data-intensive applications, yet existing differentiable programming frameworks are tailored towards dense tensors. This presents a significant challenge for efficiently computing gradients through…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Amir Shaikhha , Mathieu Huot , Shideh Hashemian

This paper introduces an efficient and generic framework for finite-element simulations under an implicit time integration scheme. Being compatible with generic constitutive models, a fast matrix assembly method exploits the fact that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ziqiu Zeng , Hadrien Courtecuisse

High dimensional sparse learning has imposed a great computational challenge to large scale data analysis. In this paper, we are interested in a broad class of sparse learning approaches formulated as linear programs parametrized by a {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Haotian Pang , Robert Vanderbei , Han Liu , Tuo Zhao

The Cholesky decomposition plays an important role in finding the inverse of the correlation matrices. As it is a fast and numerically stable for linear system solving, inversion, and factorization compared to singular valued decomposition…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Vanita Pawar , Krishna Naik Karamtot