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This paper argues that randomized linear sketching is a natural tool for on-the-fly compression of data matrices that arise from large-scale scientific simulations and data collection. The technical contribution consists in a new algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

High-dimensional sparse data present computational and statistical challenges for supervised learning. We propose compact linear sketches for reducing the dimensionality of the input, followed by a single layer neural network. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Amit Daniely , Nevena Lazic , Yoram Singer , Kunal Talwar

We consider the problem of finding anomalies in high-dimensional data using popular PCA based anomaly scores. The naive algorithms for computing these scores explicitly compute the PCA of the covariance matrix which uses space quadratic in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Vatsal Sharan , Parikshit Gopalan , Udi Wieder

This paper studies the problem of embedding very large information networks into low-dimensional vector spaces, which is useful in many tasks such as visualization, node classification, and link prediction. Most existing graph embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Jian Tang , Meng Qu , Mingzhe Wang , Ming Zhang , Jun Yan , Qiaozhu Mei

The unsupervised learning of community structure, in particular the partitioning vertices into clusters or communities, is a canonical and well-studied problem in exploratory graph analysis. However, like most graph analyses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Benjamin W. Priest , Alec Dunton , Geoffrey Sanders

This survey highlights the recent advances in algorithms for numerical linear algebra that have come from the technique of linear sketching, whereby given a matrix, one first compresses it to a much smaller matrix by multiplying it by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-11 David P. Woodruff

Linear algebraic operations are ubiquitous in engineering applications, and arise often in a variety of fields including statistical signal processing and machine learning. With contemporary large datasets, to perform linear algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Neophytos Charalambides , Arya Mazumdar

With the involvement of artificial intelligence (AI), sketches can be automatically generated under certain topics. Even though breakthroughs have been made in previous studies in this area, a relatively high proportion of the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yunkui Pang , Zhiqing Pan , Ruiyang Sun , Shuchong Wang

Summary statistics such as the mean and variance are easily maintained for large, distributed data streams, but order statistics (i.e., sample quantiles) can only be approximately summarized. There is extensive literature on maintaining…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Charles Masson , Jee E. Rim , Homin K. Lee

Visualizing very large matrices involves many formidable problems. Various popular solutions to these problems involve sampling, clustering, projection, or feature selection to reduce the size and complexity of the original task. An…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Leland Wilkinson , Hengrui Luo

Sketching is widely used in randomized linear algebra for low-rank matrix approximation, column subset selection, and many other problems, and it has gained significant traction in machine learning applications. However, sketching large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hussam Al Daas , Grey Ballard , Laura Grigori , Md Taufique Hussain , Suraj Kumar , Mohammad Marufur Rahman , Kathryn Rouse

Sketching is used as a ubiquitous tool of expression by novices and experts alike. In this thesis I explore two methods that help a system provide a geometric machine-understanding of sketches, and in-turn help a user accomplish a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Raghav Brahmadesam Venkataramaiyer

High-dimensional representations, such as radial basis function networks or tile coding, are common choices for policy evaluation in reinforcement learning. Learning with such high-dimensional representations, however, can be expensive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Yangchen Pan , Erfan Sadeqi Azer , Martha White

A longstanding observation, which was partially proven in \cite{LNW14,AHLW16}, is that any turnstile streaming algorithm can be implemented as a linear sketch (the reverse is trivially true). We study the relationship between turnstile…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-06 John Kallaugher , Eric Price

Sketches are commonly used in computer systems and network monitoring tools to provide efficient query executions while maintaining a compact data representation. Switches and routers maintain sketches to track statistical characteristics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Diana Cohen , Roy Friedman , Rana Shahout

We revisit the well-studied problem of approximating a matrix product, $\mathbf{A}^T\mathbf{B}$, based on small space sketches $\mathcal{S}(\mathbf{A})$ and $\mathcal{S}(\mathbf{B})$ of $\mathbf{A} \in \R^{n \times d}$ and $\mathbf{B}\in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Majid Daliri , Juliana Freire , Danrong Li , Christopher Musco

The key challenge in designing a sketch representation lies with handling the abstract and iconic nature of sketches. Existing work predominantly utilizes either, (i) a pixelative format that treats sketches as natural images employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Yonggang Qi , Guoyao Su , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Mingkang Li , Yi-Zhe Song

We propose a deep hashing framework for sketch retrieval that, for the first time, works on a multi-million scale human sketch dataset. Leveraging on this large dataset, we explore a few sketch-specific traits that were otherwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Peng Xu , Yongye Huang , Tongtong Yuan , Kaiyue Pang , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

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

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