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Sparse matrix reordering can significantly reduce the fill-in during matrix factorization, thereby decreasing the computational and storage requirements in sparse matrix computations. Finding a minimal fill-in ordering is known to be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziwei Li , Tao Yuan , Shuzi Niu , Huiyuan Li

Recovering low-rank and sparse matrices from incomplete or corrupted observations is an important problem in machine learning, statistics, bioinformatics, computer vision, as well as signal and image processing. In theory, this problem can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hanghang Tong , James Cheng , Hong Cheng

Matrix factorization is a popular approach to solving matrix estimation problems based on partial observations. Existing matrix factorization is based on least squares and aims to yield a low-rank matrix to interpret the conditional sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-06 Rui Zhu , Di Niu , Linglong Kong , Zongpeng Li

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of random sampling has been consistently efficient in its empirical studies by many scientists who applied it with various sparse and structured multipliers, but adequate formal support for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Victor Y. Pan , Liang Zhao

Matrix factorization is a well-studied task in machine learning for compactly representing large, noisy data. In our approach, instead of using the traditional concept of matrix rank, we define a new notion of link-rank based on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-02 Pouya Pezeshkpour , Carlos Guestrin , Sameer Singh

Fill-ins are new nonzero elements in the summation of the upper and lower triangular factors generated during LU factorization. For large sparse matrices, they will increase the memory usage and computational time, and be reduced through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ziwei Li , Shuzi Niu , Tao Yuan , Huiyuan Li , Wenjia Wu

We present an algorithm to reduce the computational effort for the multiplication of a given matrix with an unknown column vector. The algorithm decomposes the given matrix into a product of matrices whose entries are either zero or integer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ralf R. Müller , Bernhard Gäde , Ali Bereyhi

Matrix factorization (MF) is a widely used collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm for recommendation systems (RSs), due to its high prediction accuracy, great flexibility and high efficiency in big data processing. However, with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yining Wu , Shengyu Duan , Gaole Sai , Chenhong Cao , Guobing Zou

The sparse factorization of a large matrix is fundamental in modern statistical learning. In particular, the sparse singular value decomposition and its variants have been utilized in multivariate regression, factor analysis, biclustering,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-19 Kun Chen , Ruipeng Dong , Wanwan Xu , Zemin Zheng

Low-rank matrix factorization (MF) is an important technique in data science. The key idea of MF is that there exists latent structures in the data, by uncovering which we could obtain a compressed representation of the data. By factorizing…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Yuan Lu , Jie Yang

We propose a flexible and theoretically supported framework for scalable nonnegative matrix factorization. The goal is to find nonnegative low-rank components directly from compressed measurements, accessing the original data only once or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Abraar Chaudhry , Elizaveta Rebrova

In this paper, we consider the matrices approximated in H2 format. The direct solution, as well as the preconditioning, of systems with such matrices is a challenging problem. We propose a non-extensive sparse factorization of the H2 matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Daria Sushnikova , Ivan Oseledets

We consider the problem of matrix completion with side information (\textit{inductive matrix completion}). In real-world applications many side-channel features are typically non-informative making feature selection an important part of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-09 Ivan Nazarov , Boris Shirokikh , Maria Burkina , Gennady Fedonin , Maxim Panov

Neural networks are often challenging to work with due to their large size and complexity. To address this, various methods aim to reduce model size by sparsifying or decomposing weight matrices, such as magnitude pruning and low-rank or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Vladimír Boža , Vladimír Macko

Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (SymNMF) is a technique in data analysis and machine learning that approximates a symmetric matrix with a product of a nonnegative, low-rank matrix and its transpose. To design faster and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Koby Hayashi , Sinan G. Aksoy , Grey Ballard , Haesun Park

Rearranging the rows or columns of a sparse matrix using an appropriate ordering can significantly reduce fill-ins, i.e., new nonzeros introduced during matrix factorization, decreasing memory usage and runtime. However, finding an ordering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziwei Li , Tao Yuan , Fangfang Liu , Shuzi Niu , Huiyuan Li , Wenjia Wu

Nonnegative matrix factorization arises widely in machine learning and data analysis. In this paper, for a given factorization of rank r, we consider the sparse stochastic matrix factorization (SSMF) of decomposing a prescribed m-by-n…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Guiyun Xiao , Zheng-Jian Bai , Wai-Ki Ching

The increasing size of transformer-based models in NLP makes the question of compressing them important. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of factorization based model compression techniques. Specifically, we focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ashim Gupta , Sina Mahdipour Saravani , P. Sadayappan , Vivek Srikumar

In this paper, we propose a low-rank approximation method based on discrete least-squares for the approximation of a multivariate function from random, noisy-free observations. Sparsity inducing regularization techniques are used within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Mathilde Chevreuil , Régis Lebrun , Anthony Nouy , Prashant Rai

In this work, we develop a new fast algorithm, spaQR -- sparsified QR, for solving large, sparse linear systems. The key to our approach is using low-rank approximations to sparsify the separators in a Nested Dissection based Householder QR…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Eric Darve