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Dimension reduction plays an essential role when decreasing the complexity of solving large-scale problems. The well-known Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) Lemma and Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) admit the use of random projection to reduce…
Several important families of computational and statistical results in machine learning and randomized algorithms rely on uniform bounds on quadratic forms of random vectors or matrices. Such results include the Johnson-Lindenstrauss (J-L)…
Influence functions and related data attribution scores take the form of $g^{\top}F^{-1}g^{\prime}$, where $F\succeq 0$ is a curvature operator. In modern overparametrized models, forming or inverting $F\in\mathbb{R}^{d\times d}$ is…
Constrained least-squares regression problems, such as the Nonnegative Least Squares (NNLS) problem, where the variables are restricted to take only nonnegative values, often arise in applications. Motivated by the recent development of the…
Johnson-Lindenstrauss guarantees certain topological structure is preserved under random projections when project high dimensional deterministic vectors to low dimensional vectors. In this work, we try to understand how random matrix affect…
Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma states random projections can be used as a topology preserving embedding technique for fixed vectors. In this paper, we try to understand how random projections affect probabilistic properties of random vectors.…
The famous Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma states that for any set of n vectors, there is a linear transformation into a space of dimension O(log n) that approximately preserves all their lengths. In fact, a Haar random unitary transformation…
For a set $X$ of $N$ points in $\mathbb{R}^D$, the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma provides random linear maps that approximately preserve all pairwise distances in $X$ -- up to multiplicative error $(1\pm \epsilon)$ with high probability --…
We reconsider randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices such as Laplacian and kernel matrices that arise in data analysis and machine learning applications. Our main results…
Kernel methods represent one of the most powerful tools in machine learning to tackle problems expressed in terms of function values and derivatives due to their capability to represent and model complex relations. While these methods show…
How does the geometric representation of a dataset change after the application of each randomly initialized layer of a neural network? The celebrated Johnson--Lindenstrauss lemma answers this question for linear fully-connected neural…
We address the challenge of correlated predictors in high-dimensional GLMs, where regression coefficients range from sparse to dense, by proposing a data-driven random projection method. This is particularly relevant for applications where…
The paper contains several theoretical results related to the weighted nonlinear least-squares problem for low-rank signal estimation, which can be considered as a Hankel structured low-rank approximation problem. A parameterization of the…
We discuss the application of random projections to conic programming: notably linear, second-order and semidefinite programs. We prove general approximation results on feasibility and optimality using the framework of formally real Jordan…
We propose a general random subspace framework for unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems that requires a weak probabilistic assumption on the subspace gradient, which we show to be satisfied by various random matrix ensembles, such…
The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma is a fundamental result in probability with several applications in the design and analysis of algorithms in high dimensional geometry. Most known constructions of linear embeddings that satisfy the…
Rational approximation appears in many contexts throughout science and engineering, playing a central role in linear systems theory, special function approximation, and many others. There are many existing methods for solving the rational…
We study the use of "sign $\alpha$-stable random projections" (where $0<\alpha\leq 2$) for building basic data processing tools in the context of large-scale machine learning applications (e.g., classification, regression, clustering, and…
In 1733, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in France, set the ground of geometric probability theory by defining an enlightening problem: What is the probability that a needle thrown randomly on a ground made of equispaced parallel…
For various applications, the relations between the dependent and independent variables are highly nonlinear. Consequently, for large scale complex problems, neural networks and regression trees are commonly preferred over linear models…