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The modified Cholesky decomposition is popular for inverse covariance estimation, but often needs pre-specification on the full information of variable ordering. In this work, we propose a block Cholesky decomposition (BCD) for estimating…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-21 Xiaoning Kang , Jiayi Lian , Xinwei Deng

This paper studies the sparsistency and rates of convergence for estimating sparse covariance and precision matrices based on penalized likelihood with nonconvex penalty functions. Here, sparsistency refers to the property that all…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Clifford Lam , Jianqing Fan

It is well known that matrices with low Hessenberg-structured displacement rank enjoy fast algorithms for certain matrix factorizations. We show how $n\times n$ principal finite sections of the Gram matrix for the orthogonal polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Karim Gumerov , Samantha Rigg , Richard Mikael Slevinsky

Large kernel systems are prone to be ill-conditioned. Pivoted Cholesky decomposition (PCD) render a stable and efficient solution to the systems without a perturbation of regularization. This paper proposes a new PCD algorithm by tuning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Dishi Liu , Hermann G. Matthies

We propose a Cholesky factor parameterization of correlation matrices that facilitates a priori restrictions on the correlation matrix. It is a smooth and differentiable transform that allows additional boundary constraints on the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-14 Sean Pinkney

We propose a Bayesian methodology for estimating spiked covariance matrices with jointly sparse structure in high dimensions. The spiked covariance matrix is reparametrized in terms of the latent factor model, where the loading matrix is…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-31 Fangzheng Xie , Yanxun Xu , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua Cape

Distributional regression is extended to Gaussian response vectors of dimension greater than two by parameterizing the covariance matrix $\Sigma$ of the response distribution using the entries of its Cholesky decomposition. The more common…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Thomas Muschinski , Georg J. Mayr , Thorsten Simon , Nikolaus Umlauf , Achim Zeileis

Kernel-based clustering algorithm can identify and capture the non-linear structure in datasets, and thereby it can achieve better performance than linear clustering. However, computing and storing the entire kernel matrix occupy so large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Li Chen , Shuisheng Zhou , Jiajun Ma

The explicit expressions for the strong and the weak rigorous multiplicative perturbation bounds for the Generalized block Cholesky downdating problem are obtained. By bringing together the modified matrix-vector equation approach with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Mahvish Samara , Aamir Farooq

Incomplete factorizations have long been popular general-purpose algebraic preconditioners for solving large sparse linear systems of equations. Guaranteeing the factorization is breakdown free while computing a high quality preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma

Covariance estimation for matrix-valued data has received an increasing interest in applications. Unlike previous works that rely heavily on matrix normal distribution assumption and the requirement of fixed matrix size, we propose a class…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-20 Yichi Zhang , Weining Shen , Dehan Kong

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

Many neural learning algorithms require to solve large least square systems in order to obtain synaptic weights. Moore-Penrose inverse matrices allow for solving such systems, even with rank deficiency, and they provide minimum-norm vectors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Pierre Courrieu

Sparse estimation of the precision matrix under high-dimensional scaling constitutes a canonical problem in statistics and machine learning. Numerous regression and likelihood based approaches, many frequentist and some Bayesian in nature…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-20 Peyman Jalali , Kshitij Khare , George Michailidis

The particular symmetry of the random-phase-approximation (RPA) matrix has been utilized in the past to reduce the RPA eigenvalue problem into a symmetric-matrix problem of half the dimension. The condition of positive definiteness of at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Papakonstantinou

Randomly pivoted Cholesky (RPCholesky) is an algorithm for constructing a low-rank approximation of a positive-semidefinite matrix using a small number of columns. This paper develops an accelerated version of RPCholesky that employs block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Ethan N. Epperly , Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber

A complete calculation of the ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^4)$ perturbative QCD corrections to the hadronic decay width of the $Z$-boson has recently been performed by Baikov et al.[1]. In their analysis, Baikov et al. relied on the conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-29 Sheng-Quan Wang , Xing-Gang Wu , Stanley J. Brodsky

In this note, we establish a new exact worst-case linear convergence rate of the proximal gradient method in terms of the proximal gradient norm, which complements the recent results in [1] and implies a refined descent lemma.descent lemma.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Xiaoya Zhang , Hui Zhang

Mixed-effects models are widely used to model data with hierarchical grouping structures and high-cardinality categorical predictor variables. However, for high-dimensional crossed random effects, current standard computations relying on…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-15 Pascal Kündig , Fabio Sigrist

We propose a novel approach to estimating the precision matrix of multivariate Gaussian data that relies on decomposing them into a low-rank and a diagonal component. Such decompositions are very popular for modeling large covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-18 Noirrit Kiran Chandra , Peter Mueller , Abhra Sarkar