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We initiate a study of algorithms with a focus on the computational complexity of individual elements, and introduce the fragile complexity of comparison-based algorithms as the maximal number of comparisons any individual element takes…

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This paper introduces a novel algorithm to approximate the matrix with minimum nuclear norm among all matrices obeying a set of convex constraints. This problem may be understood as the convex relaxation of a rank minimization problem, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Jian-Feng Cai , Emmanuel J. Candes , Zuowei Shen

Leverage score sampling provides an appealing way to perform approximate computations for large matrices. Indeed, it allows to derive faithful approximations with a complexity adapted to the problem at hand. Yet, performing leverage scores…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Alessandro Rudi , Daniele Calandriello , Luigi Carratino , Lorenzo Rosasco

The spectra of random feature matrices provide essential information on the conditioning of the linear system used in random feature regression problems and are thus connected to the consistency and generalization of random feature models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-13 Zhijun Chen , Hayden Schaeffer , Rachel Ward

Motivated by an application in computational biology, we consider low-rank matrix factorization with $\{0,1\}$-constraints on one of the factors and optionally convex constraints on the second one. In addition to the non-convexity shared…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-24 Martin Slawski , Matthias Hein , Pavlo Lutsik

Principal component analysis (PCA) requires the computation of a low-rank approximation to a matrix containing the data being analyzed. In many applications of PCA, the best possible accuracy of any rank-deficient approximation is at most a…

Computation · Statistics 2010-06-04 Vladimir Rokhlin , Arthur Szlam , Mark Tygert

The singular value decomposition (SVD) is commonly used in applications requiring a low rank matrix approximation. However, the singular vectors cannot be interpreted in terms of the original data. For applications requiring this type of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Kathryn Linehan , Radu Balan

We propose a proximal point algorithm to solve LAROS problem, that is the problem of finding a "large approximately rank-one submatrix". This LAROS problem is used to sequentially extract features in data. We also develop a new stopping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-05 Xuan Vinh Doan , Kim-Chuan Toh , Stephen Vavasis

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to the vast amount of parameters that characterize model…

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A defective eigenvalue is well documented to be hypersensitive to data perturbations and round-off? errors, making it a formidable challenge in numerical computation particularly when the matrix is known through approximate data. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Zhonggang Zeng

This article studies how to form CUR decompositions of low-rank matrices via primarily random sampling, though deterministic methods due to previous works are illustrated as well. The primary problem is to determine when a column submatrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Keaton Hamm , Longxiu Huang

Nonlinear kernels can be approximated using finite-dimensional feature maps for efficient risk minimization. Due to the inherent trade-off between the dimension of the (mapped) feature space and the approximation accuracy, the key problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Shahin Shahrampour , Vahid Tarokh

Affine matrix rank minimization problem is a fundamental problem with a lot of important applications in many fields. It is well known that this problem is combinatorial and NP-hard in general. In this paper, a continuous promoting low rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Angang Cui , Jigen Peng , Haiyang Li , Chengyi Zhang , Yongchao Yu

This paper describes a new approach, based on linear programming, for computing nonnegative matrix factorizations (NMFs). The key idea is a data-driven model for the factorization where the most salient features in the data are used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Victor Bittorf , Benjamin Recht , Christopher Re , Joel A. Tropp

This paper is concerned with the problem of low rank plus sparse matrix decomposition for big data. Conventional algorithms for matrix decomposition use the entire data to extract the low-rank and sparse components, and are based on…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Mostafa Rahmani , George Atia

We consider the problem of estimating the spectral norm of a matrix using only matrix-vector products. We propose a new Counterbalance estimator that provides upper bounds on the norm and derive probabilistic guarantees on its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Alexey Naumov , Maxim Rakhuba , Denis Ryapolov , Sergey Samsonov

The problem of all-relevant feature selection is concerned with finding a relevant feature set with preserved redundancies. There exist several approximations to solve this problem but only one could give a distinction between strong and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Lukas Pfannschmidt , Barbara Hammer

A well-recognized limitation of kernel learning is the requirement to handle a kernel matrix, whose size is quadratic in the number of training examples. Many methods have been proposed to reduce this computational cost, mostly by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Yishay Mansour , Ohad Shamir

Submodular functions describe a variety of discrete problems in machine learning, signal processing, and computer vision. However, minimizing submodular functions poses a number of algorithmic challenges. Recent work introduced an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-06 Robert Nishihara , Stefanie Jegelka , Michael I. Jordan

We present a new method for obtaining norm bounds for random matrices, where each entry is a low-degree polynomial in an underlying set of independent real-valued random variables. Such matrices arise in a variety of settings in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Madhur Tulsiani , June Wu