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We study recovering a 1D order from a noisy, locally sampled pairwise comparison matrix under a tight query budget. We recast the task as reconstructing a sparse, noisy line graph and present, to our knowledge, the first method that…

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We consider the approximate computation of spectral projectors for symmetric banded matrices. While this problem has received considerable attention, especially in the context of linear scaling electronic structure methods, the presence of…

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A fast direct inversion scheme for the large sparse systems of linear equations resulting from the discretization of elliptic partial differential equations in two dimensions is given. The scheme is described for the particular case of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-02 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We consider the problem of efficiently solving large-scale linear least squares problems that have one or more linear constraints that must be satisfied exactly. Whilst some classical approaches are theoretically well founded, they can face…

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We give the first O(m polylog(n)) time algorithms for approximating maximum flows in undirected graphs and constructing polylog(n) -quality cut-approximating hierarchical tree decompositions. Our algorithm invokes existing algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Richard Peng

We consider a fast approximation algorithm for the linear matroid intersection problem. In this problem, we are given two $r \times n$ matrices $M_1$ and $M_2$, and the objective is to find a largest set of columns that are linearly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tatsuya Terao

We provide a computational framework for approximating a class of structured matrices; here, the term structure is very general, and may refer to a regular sparsity pattern (e.g., block-banded), or be more highly structured (e.g., symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Misha E. Kilmer , Arvind K. Saibaba

We present a randomized algorithm that computes a constant approximation of a graph's arboricity, using $\tilde{O}(n/\lambda)$ queries to adjacency lists and in the same time bound. Here, $n$ and $\lambda$ denote the number of nodes and the…

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We consider the problem of recovering signals from their power spectral density. This is a classical problem referred to in literature as the phase retrieval problem, and is of paramount importance in many fields of applied sciences. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Kishore Jaganathan , Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

Recently, a class of algorithms combining classical fixed point iterations with repeated random sparsification of approximate solution vectors has been successfully applied to eigenproblems with matrices as large as $10^{108} \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonathan Weare , Robert J. Webber

We consider the problem of recovering a complete (i.e., square and invertible) matrix $\mathbf A_0$, from $\mathbf Y \in \mathbb R^{n \times p}$ with $\mathbf Y = \mathbf A_0 \mathbf X_0$, provided $\mathbf X_0$ is sufficiently sparse. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Ju Sun , Qing Qu , John Wright

An approximate sparse recovery system in $\ell_1$ norm consists of parameters $k$, $\epsilon$, $N$, an $m$-by-$N$ measurement $\Phi$, and a recovery algorithm, $\mathcal{R}$. Given a vector, $\mathbf{x}$, the system approximates $x$ by…

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The inverse scattering problems have been popular for the past thirty years. While very successful in many cases, progress has lagged when only {\em limited-aperture} measurement is available. In this paper, we perform some elementary study…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Xiaodong Liu , Jiguang Sun

The effectiveness of using model sparsity as a priori information when solving linear inverse problems is studied. We investigate the reconstruction quality of such a method in the non-idealized case and compute some typical recovery errors…

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Sparse signal reconstruction algorithms have attracted research attention due to their wide applications in various fields. In this paper, we present a simple Bayesian approach that utilizes the sparsity constraint and a priori statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Ahmed A. Quadeer , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

We consider large linear and nonlinear fixed point problems, and solution with proximal algorithms. We show that there is a close connection between two seemingly different types of methods from distinct fields: 1) Proximal iterations for…

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This article presents a new approach to the real-time solution of inverse problems on embedded systems. The class of problems addressed corresponds to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with generalized linear constraints, whereby the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Christoph Gugg , Matthew Harker , Paul O'Leary , Gerhard Rath

Proximal algorithms have gained popularity in recent years in large-scale and distributed optimization problems. One such problem is the phase retrieval problem, for which proximal operators have been proposed recently. The phase retrieval…

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