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Constrained least squares problems arise in many applications. Their memory and computation costs are expensive in practice involving high-dimensional input data. We employ the so-called "sketching" strategy to project the least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Ke Chen , Ruhui Jin

We consider statistical as well as algorithmic aspects of solving large-scale least-squares (LS) problems using randomized sketching algorithms. For a LS problem with input data $(X, Y) \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times p} \times \mathbb{R}^n$,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-26 Garvesh Raskutti , Michael Mahoney

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

Sketch-and-solve (SAS) is a very successful method to efficiently estimate the solution of heavily overdetermined large linear least squares problems. It uses random sketching to reduce the size of the problem, hence reducing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Irina-Beatrice Haas , Michael B. Giles , Yuji Nakatsukasa

We study randomized sketching methods for approximately solving least-squares problem with a general convex constraint. The quality of a least-squares approximation can be assessed in different ways: either in terms of the value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

Randomized subspace embedding methods have had a great impact on the solution of a linear least squares (LS) problem by reducing its row dimension, leading to a randomized or sketched LS (sLS) problem, and use the solution of the sLS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Zhongxiao Jia , Xinyuan Wan

Matrices arising in scientific applications frequently admit linear low-rank approximations due to smoothness in the physical and/or temporal domain of the problem. In large-scale problems, computing an optimal low-rank approximation can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Alec Michael Dunton , Alireza Doostan

The aim of this paper is two-fold: firstly, to present subspace embedding properties for $s$-hashing sketching matrices, with $s\geq 1$, that are optimal in the projection dimension $m$ of the sketch, namely, $m=\mathcal{O}(d)$, where $d$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Coralia Cartis , Jan Fiala , Zhen Shao

A methodology for using random sketching in the context of model order reduction for high-dimensional parameter-dependent systems of equations was introduced in [Balabanov and Nouy 2019, Part I]. Following this framework, we here construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Oleg Balabanov , Anthony Nouy

Sketch-and-precondition techniques are efficient and popular for solving large least squares (LS) problems of the form $Ax=b$ with $A\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and $m\gg n$. This is where $A$ is ``sketched" to a smaller matrix $SA$ with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Maike Meier , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Alex Townsend , Marcus Webb

We consider statistical and algorithmic aspects of solving large-scale least-squares (LS) problems using randomized sketching algorithms. Prior results show that, from an \emph{algorithmic perspective}, when using sketching matrices…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-26 Garvesh Raskutti , Michael Mahoney

Matrix sketching is a powerful tool for reducing the size of large data matrices. Yet there are fundamental limitations to this size reduction when we want to recover an accurate estimator for a task such as least square regression. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Sachin Garg , Kevin Tan , Michał Dereziński

Sketching techniques have gained popularity in numerical linear algebra to accelerate the solution of least squares problems. The so-called $\varepsilon$-subspace embedding property of a sketching matrix $S$ has been largely used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Davide Palitta , Valeria Simoncini

We propose a new randomized algorithm for solving L2-regularized least-squares problems based on sketching. We consider two of the most popular random embeddings, namely, Gaussian embeddings and the Subsampled Randomized Hadamard Transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

Two widely used randomized algorithms are the sketch-and-solve method for least-squares regression and the randomized SVD for low-rank approximation. These algorithms apply a random embedding to compress a target matrix, and they perform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Ethan N. Epperly , Robert J. Webber

In second-order optimization, a potential bottleneck can be computing the Hessian matrix of the optimized function at every iteration. Randomized sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for constructing estimates of the Hessian which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Michał Dereziński , Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci , Michael W. Mahoney

We describe two algorithms to efficiently solve regularized linear least squares systems based on sketching. The algorithms compute preconditioners for $\min \|Ax-b\|^2_2 + \lambda \|x\|^2_2$, where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Maike Meier , Yuji Nakatsukasa

We propose iterative projection methods for solving square or rectangular consistent linear systems Ax = b. Existing projection methods use sketching matrices (possibly randomized) to generate a sequence of small projected subproblems, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Johannes J. Brust , Michael A. Saunders

Randomized algorithms are important for solving large-scale optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a fast sketching algorithm for least square problems regularized by convex or nonconvex regularization functions, Sketching for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Yingzhen Yang , Ping Li

For a tall $n\times d$ matrix $A$ and a random $m\times n$ sketching matrix $S$, the sketched estimate of the inverse covariance matrix $(A^\top A)^{-1}$ is typically biased: $E[(\tilde A^\top\tilde A)^{-1}]\ne(A^\top A)^{-1}$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Michał Dereziński , Zhenyu Liao , Edgar Dobriban , Michael W. Mahoney
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