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We develop several efficient algorithms for the classical \emph{Matrix Scaling} problem, which is used in many diverse areas, from preconditioning linear systems to approximation of the permanent. On an input $n\times n$ matrix $A$, this…

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We improve the current best running time value to invert sparse matrices over finite fields, lowering it to an expected $O\big(n^{2.2131}\big)$ time for the current values of fast rectangular matrix multiplication. We achieve the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Sílvia Casacuberta , Rasmus Kyng

We analyze the bit complexity of efficient algorithms for fundamental optimization problems, such as linear regression, $p$-norm regression, and linear programming (LP). State-of-the-art algorithms are iterative, and in terms of the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Richard Peng , Santosh S. Vempala

Although some preconditioners are available for solving dense linear systems, there are still many matrices for which preconditioners are lacking, in particular in cases where the size of the matrix $N$ becomes very large. There remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Pieter Coulier , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

Matrix completion is the problem of recovering a low rank matrix by observing a small fraction of its entries. A series of recent works [KOM12,JNS13,HW14] have proposed fast non-convex optimization based iterative algorithms to solve this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli

We present a novel algorithm attaining excessively fast, the sought solution of linear systems of equations. The algorithm is short in its basic formulation and, by definition, vectorized, while the memory allocation demands are trivial,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Nikolaos P. Bakas

Despite being a key bottleneck in many machine learning tasks, the cost of solving large linear systems has proven challenging to quantify due to problem-dependent quantities such as condition numbers. To tackle this, we consider a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Michał Dereziński , Daniel LeJeune , Deanna Needell , Elizaveta Rebrova

A class of splitting alternating algorithms is proposed for finding the sparse solution of linear systems with concatenated orthogonal matrices. Depending on the number of matrices concatenated, the proposed algorithms are classified into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yun-Bin Zhao , Zhong-Feng Sun

We establish an improved classical algorithm for solving linear systems in a model analogous to the QRAM that is used by quantum linear solvers. Precisely, for the linear system $A\x = \b$, we show that there is a classical algorithm that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Changpeng Shao , Ashley Montanaro

We present new algorithms to detect and correct errors in the product of two matrices, or the inverse of a matrix, over an arbitrary field. Our algorithms do not require any additional information or encoding other than the original inputs…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Daniel S. Roche

Tensor accelerators have gained popularity because they provide a cheap and efficient solution for speeding up computational-expensive tasks in Deep Learning and, more recently, in other Scientific Computing applications. However, since…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Paolo Sylos Labini , Massimo Bernaschi , Francesco Silvestri , Flavio Vella

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

Stretching is a new sparse matrix method that makes matrices sparser by making them larger. Stretching has implications for computational complexity theory and applications in scientific and parallel computing. It changes matrix sparsity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Joseph F. Grcar

Solving linear systems of equations is a frequently encountered problem in machine learning and optimisation. Given a matrix $A$ and a vector $\mathbf b$ the task is to find the vector $\mathbf x$ such that $A \mathbf x = \mathbf b$. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Leonard Wossnig , Zhikuan Zhao , Anupam Prakash

We present a fast sparse matrix permutation algorithm tailored to linear systems arising from triangle meshes. Our approach produces nested-dissection-style permutations while significantly reducing permutation runtime overhead. Rather than…

The Kaczmarz algorithm is a popular solver for overdetermined linear systems due to its simplicity and speed. In this paper, we propose a modification that speeds up the convergence of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm for systems of linear…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Hassan Mansour , Ozgur Yilmaz

We discuss an approach for solving sparse or dense banded linear systems ${\bf A} {\bf x} = {\bf b}$ on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) card. The matrix ${\bf A} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{N \times N}$ is possibly nonsymmetric and moderately large;…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Ang Li , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

In this paper, we show that the time complexity of monotone min-plus product of two $n\times n$ matrices is $\tilde{O}(n^{(3+\omega)/2})=\tilde{O}(n^{2.687})$, where $\omega < 2.373$ is the fast matrix multiplication exponent [Alman and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Shucheng Chi , Ran Duan , Tianle Xie , Tianyi Zhang

For a matrix $A\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$ with $n\geq d$, we consider the dual problems of $\min \|Ax-b\|_p^p, \, b\in \mathbb{R}^n$ and $\min_{A^\top x=b} \|x\|_p^p,\, b\in \mathbb{R}^d$. We improve the runtimes for solving these problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Richard Peng , Santosh S. Vempala

It is known that the multiplication of an $N \times M$ matrix with an $M \times P$ matrix can be performed using fewer multiplications than what the naive $NMP$ approach suggests. The most famous instance of this is Strassen's algorithm for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Arnaud Deza , Chang Liu , Pashootan Vaezipoor , Elias B. Khalil