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This paper presents a class of new algorithms for distributed statistical estimation that exploit divide-and-conquer approach. We show that one of the key benefits of the divide-and-conquer strategy is robustness, an important…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Stanislav Minsker , Nate Strawn

Low rank matrix approximation is a popular topic in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for this topic by minimizing the least-squares estimation over the Riemannian manifold of fixed-rank matrices. The algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Qianqian Song

In this paper, we propose a low-rank coordinate descent approach to structured semidefinite programming with diagonal constraints. The approach, which we call the Mixing method, is extremely simple to implement, has no free parameters, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Po-Wei Wang , Wei-Cheng Chang , J. Zico Kolter

Many algorithms in scientific computing and data science take advantage of low-rank approximation of matrices and kernels, and understanding why nearly-low-rank structure occurs is essential for their analysis and further development. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Marcus Webb

The problem of approximating a matrix by a low-rank one has been extensively studied. This problem assumes, however, that the whole matrix has a low-rank structure. This assumption is often false for real-world matrices. We consider the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Martino Ciaperoni , Aristides Gionis , Heikki Mannila

Performing Bayesian inference on large spatio-temporal models requires extracting inverse elements of large sparse precision matrices for marginal variances, as well as estimating model hyperparameters. Although direct matrix factorizations…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-17 Abylay Zhumekenov , Elias T. Krainski , Håvard Rue

We consider the learning of algorithmic tasks by mere observation of input-output pairs. Rather than studying this as a black-box discrete regression problem with no assumption whatsoever on the input-output mapping, we concentrate on tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Alex Nowak-Vila , David Folqué , Joan Bruna

In this paper, we consider networks with topologies described by some connected undirected graph ${\mathcal{G}}=(V, E)$ and with some agents (fusion centers) equipped with processing power and local peer-to-peer communication, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Nazar Emirov , Guohui Song , Qiyu Sun

New algorithms are proposed for the Tucker approximation of a 3-tensor, that access it using only the tensor-by-vector-by-vector multiplication subroutine. In the matrix case, Krylov methods are methods of choice to approximate the dominant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-02-06 S. A. Goreinov , I. V. Oseledets , D. V. Savostyanov

We propose a numerical integrator for determining low-rank approximations to solutions of large-scale matrix differential equations. The considered differential equations are semilinear and stiff. Our method consists of first splitting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Alexander Ostermann , Chiara Piazzola , Hanna Walach

The purpose of this text is to provide an accessible introduction to a set of recently developed algorithms for factorizing matrices. These new algorithms attain high practical speed by reducing the dimensionality of intermediate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

The multiplication of matrices is an important arithmetic operation in computational mathematics. In the context of hierarchical matrices, this operation can be realized by the multiplication of structured block-wise low-rank matrices,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Jürgen Dölz , Helmut Harbrecht , Michael D. Multerer

In this paper, we propose a new splitting algorithm for dynamical low-rank approximation motivated by the fibre bundle structure of the set of fixed rank matrices. We first introduce a geometric description of the set of fixed rank matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Marie Billaud-Friess , Antonio Falcó , Anthony Nouy

EigenDecomposition (ED) is at the heart of many computer vision algorithms and applications. One crucial bottleneck limiting its usage is the expensive computation cost, particularly for a mini-batch of matrices in deep neural networks. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yue Song

A Krylov subspace recycling method for the efficient evaluation of a sequence of matrix functions acting on a set of vectors is developed. The method improves over the recycling methods presented in [Burke et al., arXiv:2209.14163, 2022] in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Liam Burke , Stefan Güttel

We propose a divide-and-conquer algorithm to find recursively the Scattering matrix of general tight-binding structures. The Scattering matrix allows a direct calculation of transport properties in mesoscopic systems by using the Landauer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Mauricio J. Rodríguez , Carlos Ramírez

We consider an effective new method for solving trust-region and norm-regularization problems that arise as subproblems in many optimization applications. We show that the solutions to such subproblems effectively lie in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hussam Al Daas , Nicholas I. M. Gould

CUR and low-rank approximations are among most fundamental subjects of numerical linear algebra, with a wide range of applications to a variety of highly important areas of modern computing, which range from the machine learning theory and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Victor Y. Pan

Low-rank Krylov methods are one of the few options available in the literature to address the numerical solution of large-scale general linear matrix equations. These routines amount to well-known Krylov schemes that have been equipped with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Davide Palitta , Patrick Kürschner

An efficient, accurate and reliable approximation of a matrix by one of lower rank is a fundamental task in numerical linear algebra and signal processing applications. In this paper, we introduce a new matrix decomposition approach termed…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Maboud F. Kaloorazi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare