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We design a new distribution over $\poly(r \eps^{-1}) \times n$ matrices $S$ so that for any fixed $n \times d$ matrix $A$ of rank $r$, with probability at least 9/10, $\norm{SAx}_2 = (1 \pm \eps)\norm{Ax}_2$ simultaneously for all $x \in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Kenneth L. Clarkson , David P. Woodruff

We present a new algorithm for finding a near optimal low-rank approximation of a matrix $A$ in $O(nnz(A))$ time. Our method is based on a recursive sampling scheme for computing a representative subset of $A$'s columns, which is then used…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Michael B. Cohen , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

We present a new class of preconditioned iterative methods for solving linear systems of the form $Ax = b$. Our methods are based on constructing a low-rank Nystr\"om approximation to $A$ using sparse random matrix sketching. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Michał Dereziński , Christopher Musco , Jiaming Yang

There are a number of approximation algorithms for NP-hard versions of low rank approximation, such as finding a rank-$k$ matrix $B$ minimizing the sum of absolute values of differences to a given $n$-by-$n$ matrix $A$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Peilin Zhong

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-02 David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

Given a matrix $A$, the goal of the entrywise low-rank approximation problem is to find $\operatorname{argmin} \|A-B\|_p$ over all rank-$k$ matrices $B$, where $\| \cdot \|_p$ is the entrywise $\ell_p$ norm. When $p = 2$ this well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Prashanti Anderson , Ainesh Bakshi , Samuel B. Hopkins

Recently, Musco and Woodruff (FOCS, 2017) showed that given an $n \times n$ positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix $A$, it is possible to compute a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate relative-error low-rank approximation to $A$ by querying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Ainesh Bakshi , Nadiia Chepurko , David P. Woodruff

We consider supervised learning problems within the positive-definite kernel framework, such as kernel ridge regression, kernel logistic regression or the support vector machine. With kernels leading to infinite-dimensional feature spaces,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-23 Francis Bach

We present a sublinear query algorithm for outputting a near-optimal low-rank approximation to any positive semidefinite Toeplitz matrix $T \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times d}$. In particular, for any integer rank $k \leq d$ and $\epsilon,\delta >…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Michael Kapralov , Hannah Lawrence , Mikhail Makarov , Cameron Musco , Kshiteej Sheth

Let $A$ be an $m \times n$ matrix with rank $r$ and spectral decomposition $A = \sum_{i=1}^r \sigma_i u_i v_i^\top,$ where $\sigma_i$ are its singular values, ordered decreasingly, and $u_i, v_i$ are the corresponding left and right…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Phuc Tran , Van Vu

We introduce a "learning-based" algorithm for the low-rank decomposition problem: given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$, and a parameter $k$, compute a rank-$k$ matrix $A'$ that minimizes the approximation loss $\|A-A'\|_F$. The algorithm uses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Piotr Indyk , Ali Vakilian , Yang Yuan

We develop time integration methods in low-rank representation that can adaptively adjust approximation ranks to achieve a prescribed accuracy, while ensuring that these ranks remain proportional to the corresponding best approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Markus Bachmayr , Matthieu Dolbeault , Polina Sachsenmaier

This work is concerned with the numerical solution of large-scale symmetric positive definite matrix equations of the form $A_1XB_1^\top + A_2XB_2^\top + \dots + A_\ell X B_\ell^\top = F$, as they arise from discretized partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Ivan Bioli , Daniel Kressner , Leonardo Robol

We present a sublinear time algorithm for computing a near optimal low-rank approximation to any positive semidefinite (PSD) Toeplitz matrix $T\in \mathbb{R}^{d\times d}$, given noisy access to its entries. In particular, given entrywise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Cameron Musco , Kshiteej Sheth

Given a matrix $M\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$, the low rank matrix completion problem asks us to find a rank-$k$ approximation of $M$ as $UV^\top$ for $U\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times k}$ and $V\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times k}$ by only observing a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yuzhou Gu , Zhao Song , Junze Yin , Lichen Zhang

Given a positive integer n and a positive semidefinite matrix A = (A_{ij}) of size m x m, the positive semidefinite Grothendieck problem with rank-n-constraint (SDP_n) is maximize \sum_{i=1}^m \sum_{j=1}^m A_{ij} x_i \cdot x_j, where x_1,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Jop Briet , Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

Given a linear subspace of $n \times n$ matrices over $\mathbb F_{2^r}$ that is promised to contain a matrix of rank $1$, we prove that it is hard to find a matrix of rank $n^{o(1/\log \log n)}$, assuming NP doesn't have sub-exponential…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Venkatesan Guruswami , Xuandi Ren , Shaoxuan Tang

We propose a computational framework for computing low-rank approximations to the ensemble of solutions of a parametrized system of the form $A(\xi)x(\xi)+g(x(\xi))=b(\xi)$ for multiple parameter values. The central idea is to reinterpret…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Marco Sutti , Tommaso Vanzan

Let $\mathbf{P}=\{ p_1, p_2, \ldots p_n \}$ and $\mathbf{Q} = \{ q_1, q_2 \ldots q_m \}$ be two point sets in an arbitrary metric space. Let $\mathbf{A}$ represent the $m\times n$ pairwise distance matrix with $\mathbf{A}_{i,j} = d(p_i,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Ainesh Bakshi , David P. Woodruff

In this paper, we propose an efficient and scalable low rank matrix completion algorithm. The key idea is to extend orthogonal matching pursuit method from the vector case to the matrix case. We further propose an economic version of our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Zheng Wang , Ming-Jun Lai , Zhaosong Lu , Wei Fan , Hasan Davulcu , Jieping Ye