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Many relevant machine learning and scientific computing tasks involve high-dimensional linear operators accessible only via costly matrix-vector products. In this context, recent advances in sketched methods have enabled the construction of…

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We propose a new randomized optimization method for high-dimensional problems which can be seen as a generalization of coordinate descent to random subspaces. We show that an adaptive sampling strategy for the random subspace significantly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci , Marco Pavone

We study a dynamic version of the implicit trace estimation problem. Given access to an oracle for computing matrix-vector multiplications with a dynamically changing matrix A, our goal is to maintain an accurate approximation to A's trace…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Prathamesh Dharangutte , Christopher Musco

We study the problem of estimating the trace of a matrix $\mathbf{A}$ that can only be accessed through Kronecker-matrix-vector products. That is, for any Kronecker-structured vector $\mathrm{x} = \otimes_{i=1}^k \mathrm{x}_i$, we can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Raphael A. Meyer , Haim Avron

Matrix sketching is a powerful tool for reducing the size of large data matrices. Yet there are fundamental limitations to this size reduction when we want to recover an accurate estimator for a task such as least square regression. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Sachin Garg , Kevin Tan , Michał Dereziński

A methodology for using random sketching in the context of model order reduction for high-dimensional parameter-dependent systems of equations was introduced in [Balabanov and Nouy 2019, Part I]. Following this framework, we here construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Oleg Balabanov , Anthony Nouy

Estimating quantiles is one of the foundational problems of data sketching. Given $n$ elements $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ from some universe of size $U$ arriving in a data stream, a quantile sketch estimates the rank of any element with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Meghal Gupta , Mihir Singhal , Hongxun Wu

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

We consider the problem of doing fast and reliable estimation of the number of non-zero entries in a sparse boolean matrix product. This problem has applications in databases and computer algebra. Let n denote the total number of non-zero…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Rasmus Resen Amossen , Andrea Campagna , Rasmus Pagh

This paper considers unconstrained convex optimization problems with time-varying objective functions. We propose algorithms with a discrete time-sampling scheme to find and track the solution trajectory based on prediction and correction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Andrea Simonetto , Aryan Mokhtari , Alec Koppel , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

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

Computation of the trace of a matrix function plays an important role in many scientific computing applications, including applications in machine learning, computational physics (e.g., lattice quantum chromodynamics), network analysis and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Insu Han , Dmitry Malioutov , Haim Avron , Jinwoo Shin

The current best practice for computing optimal transport (OT) is via entropy regularization and Sinkhorn iterations. This algorithm runs in quadratic time as it requires the full pairwise cost matrix, which is prohibitively expensive for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

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

Matrix sketching is a recently developed data compression technique. An input matrix A is efficiently approximated with a smaller matrix B, so that B preserves most of the properties of A up to some guaranteed approximation ratio. In so…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Roberta Falcone , Angela Montanari , Laura Anderlucci

Given the ubiquity of streaming data, online algorithms have been widely used for parameter estimation, with second-order methods particularly standing out for their efficiency and robustness. In this paper, we study an online sketched…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Wei Kuang , Mihai Anitescu , Sen Na

In this paper, we consider an unconstrained optimization model where the objective is a sum of a large number of possibly nonconvex functions, though overall the objective is assumed to be smooth and convex. Our bid to solving such model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Xi Chen , Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shuzhong Zhang

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

We present the analysis of two recently proposed noise reduction techniques, Hutch++ and XTrace, both based on inexact deflation. These methods were proven to have a better asymptotic convergence to the solution than the classical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-12-15 Alessandro Cotellucci , Agostino Patella

In recent years, randomized methods for numerical linear algebra have received growing interest as a general approach to large-scale problems. Typically, the essential ingredient of these methods is some form of randomized dimension…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-05 Miles E. Lopes , Shusen Wang , Michael W. Mahoney