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The Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) summarizes a shape in $\mathbb{R}^m$ by collecting persistence diagrams obtained from linear height filtrations in all directions on $\mathbb{S}^{m-1}$. It enjoys strong theoretical guarantees,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Michael Kerber , Elena Xinyi Wang

We propose a randomized second-order method for optimization known as the Newton Sketch: it is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a randomly projected or sub-sampled Hessian. For self-concordant functions, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

Persistence diagrams have been widely used to quantify the underlying features of filtered topological spaces in data visualization. In many applications, computing distances between diagrams is essential; however, computing these distances…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Yu Qin , Brittany Terese Fasy , Carola Wenk , Brian Summa

Sketching is widely used in randomized linear algebra for low-rank matrix approximation, column subset selection, and many other problems, and it has gained significant traction in machine learning applications. However, sketching large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hussam Al Daas , Grey Ballard , Laura Grigori , Md Taufique Hussain , Suraj Kumar , Mohammad Marufur Rahman , Kathryn Rouse

We study the two-player communication problem of determining whether two vertices $x, y$ are nearby in a graph $G$, with the goal of determining the graph structures that allow the problem to be solved with a constant-cost randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Louis Esperet , Nathaniel Harms , Andrey Kupavskii

The shift distance $\mathsf{sh}(S_1,S_2)$ between two strings $S_1$ and $S_2$ of the same length is defined as the minimum Hamming distance between $S_1$ and any rotation (cyclic shift) of $S_2$. We study the problem of sketching the shift…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Shay Golan , Tomasz Kociumaka , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Ely Porat , Przemysław Uznański

Graph sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for processing massive graphs that change over time (i.e., are presented as a dynamic stream of edge updates) over the past few years, starting with the work of Ahn, Guha and McGregor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Michael Kapralov , Aida Mousavifar , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Navid Nouri

We introduce persistence spheres, a novel functional representation of persistence diagrams. Unlike existing embeddings (such as persistence images, landscapes, or kernel methods), persistence spheres provide a bi-continuous mapping: they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Matteo Pegoraro

Recent advancement of the WWW, IOT, social network, e-commerce, etc. have generated a large volume of data. These datasets are mostly represented by high dimensional and sparse datasets. Many fundamental subroutines of common data analytic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Rameshwar Pratap , Debajyoti Bera , Karthik Revanuru

In topological data analysis (TDA), persistence diagrams have been a succesful tool. To compare them, Wasserstein and Bottleneck distances are commonly used. We address the shortcomings of these metrics and show a way to investigate them in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Paweł Dłotko , Niklas Hellmer

Persistence diagrams are important descriptors in Topological Data Analysis. Due to the nonlinearity of the space of persistence diagrams equipped with their {\em diagram distances}, most of the recent attempts at using persistence diagrams…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Mathieu Carriere , Ulrich Bauer

Sketched gradient algorithms have been recently introduced for efficiently solving the large-scale constrained Least-squares regressions. In this paper we provide novel convergence analysis for the basic method {\it Gradient Projection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Junqi Tang , Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike Davies

Pairwise alignment of DNA sequencing data is a ubiquitous task in bioinformatics and typically represents a heavy computational burden. A standard approach to speed up this task is to compute "sketches" of the DNA reads (typically via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ilan Shomorony , Govinda M. Kamath

Elastic-Sketch is a hash-based data structure for counting item's appearances in a data stream, and it has been empirically shown to achieve a better memory-accuracy trade-off compared to classical methods. This algorithm combines a heavy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Younes Ben Mazziane , Vinay Kumar B. R. , Othmane Marfoq

We propose a randomized algorithm with quadratic convergence rate for convex optimization problems with a self-concordant, composite, strongly convex objective function. Our method is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Jonathan Lacotte , Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

Sketching is a dimensionality reduction technique where one compresses a matrix by linear combinations that are chosen at random. A line of work has shown how to sketch the Hessian to speed up each iteration in a second order method, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff

We develop a sketching algorithm to find the point on the convex hull of a dataset, closest to a query point outside it. Studying the convex hull of datasets can provide useful information about their geometric structure and their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

The extended persistence diagram is an invariant of piecewise linear functions, which is known to be stable under perturbations of functions with respect to the bottleneck distance as introduced by Cohen-Steiner, Edelsbrunner, and Harer. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Ulrich Bauer , Magnus Bakke Botnan , Benedikt Fluhr

The metric sketching problem is defined as follows. Given a metric on $n$ points, and $\epsilon>0$, we wish to produce a small size data structure (sketch) that, given any pair of point indices, recovers the distance between the points up…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

We present the first sublinear memory sketch that can be queried to find the nearest neighbors in a dataset. Our online sketching algorithm compresses an N element dataset to a sketch of size $O(N^b \log^3 N)$ in $O(N^{(b+1)} \log^3 N)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Benjamin Coleman , Richard G. Baraniuk , Anshumali Shrivastava