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We study the problem of compressing a weighted graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, building a "sketch" $H$ of $G$, so that given any vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$, the value $x^T L_G x$ can be approximated up to a multiplicative $1+\epsilon$ factor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Jiecao Chen , Bo Qin , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

The sparse regression problem, also known as best subset selection problem, can be cast as follows: Given a set $S$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, a point $y\in \mathbb{R}^d$, and an integer $2 \leq k \leq d$, find an affine combination…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Jean Cardinal , Aurélien Ooms

Sketching uses randomized Hash functions for dimensionality reduction and acceleration. The existing sketching methods, such as count sketch (CS), tensor sketch (TS), and higher-order count sketch (HCS), either suffer from low accuracy or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Xingyu Cao , Jiani Liu

Sketch techniques have been extensively studied in recent years and are especially well-suited to data streaming scenarios, where the sketch summary is updated quickly and compactly. However, it is challenging to recover the current state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xinyu Yuan , Yan Qiao , Zonghui Wang , Wenzhi Chen

We investigate iterative methods with randomized preconditioners for solving overdetermined least-squares problems, where the preconditioners are based on a random embedding of the data matrix. We consider two distinct approaches: the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

Space-efficient streaming estimation of quantiles in massive datasets is a fundamental problem with numerous applications in data monitoring and analysis. While theoretical research led to optimal algorithms, such as the Greenwald-Khanna…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Aleksander Łukasiewicz , Jakub Tětek , Pavel Veselý

Accounting for the uncertainty in the predictions of modern neural networks is a challenging and important task in many domains. Existing algorithms for uncertainty estimation require modifying the model architecture and training procedure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-09 Alexander Fishkov , Maxim Panov

Given a persistence diagram with $n$ points, we give an algorithm that produces a sequence of $n$ persistence diagrams converging in bottleneck distance to the input diagram, the $i$th of which has $i$ distinct (weighted) points and is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Donald R. Sheehy , Siddharth Sheth

We develop a sketching algorithm to find the point on the convex hull of a dataset, closest to a query point outside it. Studying the convex hull of datasets can provide useful information about their geometric structure and their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Frequency estimation is one of the most fundamental problems in streaming algorithms. Given a stream $S$ of elements from some universe $U=\{1 \ldots n\}$, the goal is to compute, in a single pass, a short sketch of $S$ so that for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , David P. Woodruff

SKETCHVERIFY is a within-tier cost-performance policy, not a universal accuracy improvement. The operational question: a practitioner stuck with a small, cheap code model (here, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite) for latency, deployment, or budget…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shan Jiang , Zijian Yi , Chenguang Zhu

The power of randomized algorithms in numerical methods have led to fast solutions which use the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) as a core routine. However, given the large data size of modern and the modest runtime of SVD, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Hui Han Chin , Paul Pu Liang

Overparametrization often helps improve the generalization performance. This paper presents a dual view of overparametrization suggesting that downsampling may also help generalize. Focusing on the proportional regime $m\asymp n \asymp p$,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Xin Chen , Yicheng Zeng , Siyue Yang , Qiang Sun

Among randomized numerical linear algebra strategies, so-called sketching procedures are emerging as effective reduction means to accelerate the computation of Krylov subspace methods for, e.g., the solution of linear systems, eigenvalue…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Davide Palitta , Marcel Schweitzer , Valeria Simoncini

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

Identifying independence between two random variables or correlated given their samples has been a fundamental problem in Statistics. However, how to do so in a space-efficient way if the number of states is large is not quite well-studied.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zhenhao Gu , Hao Zhang

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the most widely used modeling approach for technical design. The typical starting point in these designs is 2D sketches which can later be extruded and combined to obtain complex three-dimensional assemblies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Wamiq Reyaz Para , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Paul Guerrero , Tom Kelly , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas Guibas , Peter Wonka

In the subspace sketch problem one is given an $n\times d$ matrix $A$ with $O(\log(nd))$ bit entries, and would like to compress it in an arbitrary way to build a small space data structure $Q_p$, so that for any given $x \in \mathbb{R}^d$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yi Li , Ruosong Wang , David P. Woodruff

Linear sketching algorithms have been widely used for processing large-scale distributed and streaming datasets. Their popularity is largely due to the fact that linear sketches can be naturally composed in the distributed model and be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Jiecao Chen , Qin Zhang

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