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Graph embedding learns low-dimensional representations for nodes in a graph and effectively preserves the graph structure. Recently, a significant amount of progress has been made toward this emerging research area. However, there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Yuan Yin , Zhewei Wei

The unsupervised learning of community structure, in particular the partitioning vertices into clusters or communities, is a canonical and well-studied problem in exploratory graph analysis. However, like most graph analyses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Benjamin W. Priest , Alec Dunton , Geoffrey Sanders

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

We study how well one can recover sparse principal components of a data matrix using a sketch formed from a few of its elements. We show that for a wide class of optimization problems, if the sketch is close (in the spectral norm) to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Abhisek Kundu , Petros Drineas , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Constructing a sparse spanning subgraph is a fundamental primitive in graph theory. In this paper, we study this problem in the Centralized Local model, where the goal is to decide whether an edge is part of the spanning subgraph by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Christoph Lenzen , Reut Levi

We introduce a new ensemble of random bipartite graphs, which we term the `smearing ensemble', where each left node is connected to some number of consecutive right nodes. Such graphs arise naturally in the recovery of sparse wavelet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Kabir Chandrasekher , Orhan Ocal , Kannan Ramchandran

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

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

Sketching is a powerful dimensionality reduction technique for accelerating algorithms for data analysis. A crucial step in sketching methods is to compute a subspace embedding (SE) for a large matrix $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Rajesh Jayaram , Alireza Samadian , David P. Woodruff , Peng Ye

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely applied to graph learning problems such as node classification. When scaling up the underlying graphs of GNNs to a larger size, we are forced to either train on the complete graph and keep the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Mucong Ding , Tahseen Rabbani , Bang An , Evan Z Wang , Furong Huang

We consider sketching algorithms which first compress data by multiplication with a random sketch matrix, and then apply the sketch to quickly solve an optimization problem, e.g., low-rank approximation and regression. In the learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , Simin Liu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

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

Multiplication of a sparse matrix with another (dense or sparse) matrix is a fundamental operation that captures the computational patterns of many data science applications, including but not limited to graph algorithms, sparsely connected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Aydın Buluç

High-dimensional representations, such as radial basis function networks or tile coding, are common choices for policy evaluation in reinforcement learning. Learning with such high-dimensional representations, however, can be expensive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Yangchen Pan , Erfan Sadeqi Azer , Martha White

Matrix sketching is aimed at finding close approximations of a matrix by factors of much smaller dimensions, which has important applications in optimization and machine learning. Given a matrix A of size m by n, state-of-the-art randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Kai Zhang , Chuanren Liu , Jie Zhang , Hui Xiong , Eric Xing , Jieping Ye

Count-sketch is a popular matrix sketching algorithm that can produce a sketch of an input data matrix X in O(nnz(X))time where nnz(X) denotes the number of non-zero entries in X. The sketched matrix will be much smaller than X while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yuhan Wang , Zijian Lei , Liang Lan

A basic fact in spectral graph theory is that the number of connected components in an undirected graph is equal to the multiplicity of the eigenvalue zero in the Laplacian matrix of the graph. In particular, the graph is disconnected if…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-24 James R. Lee , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Luca Trevisan

Low-dimensional representations, or embeddings, of a graph's nodes facilitate several practical data science and data engineering tasks. As such embeddings rely, explicitly or implicitly, on a similarity measure among nodes, they require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Anton Tsitsulin , Marina Munkhoeva , Davide Mottin , Panagiotis Karras , Ivan Oseledets , Emmanuel Müller

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying distribution is unknown. In this severely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Bahar Oveisgharan , Gene Cheung , Andrew Eckford

This paper considers the problem of recovering an unknown sparse p\times p matrix X from an m\times m matrix Y=AXB^T, where A and B are known m \times p matrices with m << p. The main result shows that there exist constructions of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-27 Gautam Dasarathy , Parikshit Shah , Badri Narayan Bhaskar , Robert Nowak