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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

We study the convergence rate of the proximal-gradient homotopy algorithm applied to norm-regularized linear least squares problems, for a general class of norms. The homotopy algorithm reduces the regularization parameter in a series of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Reza Eghbali , Maryam Fazel

In recent years, there have been significant advances in efficiently solving $\ell_s$-regression using linear system solvers and $\ell_2$-regression [Adil-Kyng-Peng-Sachdeva, J. ACM'24]. Would efficient smoothed $\ell_p$-norm solvers lead…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Deeksha Adil , Brian Bullins , Arun Jambulapati , Aaron Sidford

In this paper, we introduce a \textit{Bi-level OPTimization} (BiOPT) framework for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, where both can be nonsmooth. The BiOPT framework involves two levels of methodologies. At the upper level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Masoud Ahookhosh , Yurii Nesterov

We give a deterministic algorithm for approximately counting satisfying assignments of a degree-$d$ polynomial threshold function (PTF). Given a degree-$d$ input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ over $R^n$ and a parameter $\epsilon> 0$, our…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Anindya De , Rocco Servedio

Incorporating a non-Euclidean variable metric to first-order algorithms is known to bring enhancement. However, due to the lack of an optimal choice, such an enhancement appears significantly underestimated. In this work, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Yifan Ran

We describe a framework in which is possible to develop and implement algorithms for the approximation of invariant measures of dynamical systems with a given bound on the error of the approximation. Our approach is based on a general…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Stefano Galatolo , Isaia Nisoli

We primarily consider bilevel programs where the lower level is a convex quadratic minimization problem under integer constraints. We show that it is $\Sigma_2^p$-hard to decide if the optimal objective for the leader is lesser than a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Sriram Sankaranarayanan , V. Shubha Vatsalya

Recent advances (Sherman, 2017; Sidford and Tian, 2018; Cohen et al., 2021) have overcome the fundamental barrier of dimension dependence in the iteration complexity of solving $\ell_\infty$ regression with first-order methods. Yet it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Cedar Site Bai , Brian Bullins

We study approximation of the embedding $\ell_p^m \rightarrow \ell_{\infty}^m$, $1 \leq p \leq 2$, based on randomized adaptive algorithms that use arbitrary linear functionals as information on a problem instance. We show upper bounds for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Robert J. Kunsch , Marcin Wnuk

The task of estimating a matrix given a sample of observed entries is known as the \emph{matrix completion problem}. Most works on matrix completion have focused on recovering an unknown real-valued low-rank matrix from a random sample of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Olga Klopp , Jean Lafond , Eric Moulines , Joseph Salmon

This work provides closed-form solutions and minimum achievable errors for a large class of low-rank approximation problems in Hilbert spaces. The proposed theorem generalizes to the case of bounded linear operators the previous results…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-09 Patrick Heas , Cedric Herzet

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Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Sariel Har-Peled

The QLP decomposition is one of the effective algorithms to approximate singular value decomposition (SVD) in numerical linear algebra. In this paper, we propose some single-pass randomized QLP decomposition algorithms for computing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Huan Ren , Zheng-Jian Bai

The proximal point algorithm is a widely used tool for solving a variety of convex optimization problems such as finding zeros of maximally monotone operators, fixed points of nonexpansive mappings, as well as minimizing convex functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae , Andrei Sipos

We present an iterative support shrinking algorithm for $\ell_{p}$-$\ell_{q}$ minimization~($0 <p < 1 \leq q < \infty $). This algorithm guarantees the nonexpensiveness of the signal support set and can be easily implemented after being…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Zhifang Liu , Yanan Zhao , Chunlin Wu

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

In this paper, we propose a method for the approximation of the solution of high-dimensional weakly coercive problems formulated in tensor spaces using low-rank approximation formats. The method can be seen as a perturbation of a minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Marie Billaud-Friess , Anthony Nouy , Olivier Zahm

We study optimization problems that are neither approximable in polynomial time (at least with a constant factor) nor fixed parameter tractable, under widely believed complexity assumptions. Specifically, we focus on Maximum Independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-29 Marek Cygan , Lukasz Kowalik , Marcin Pilipczuk , Mateusz Wykurz

In this paper, we present a deterministic algorithm for the closest vector problem for all l_p-norms, 1 < p < \infty, and all polyhedral norms, especially for the l_1-norm and the l_{\infty}-norm. We achieve our results by introducing a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Johannes Blömer , Stefanie Naewe