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We adapt a well known streaming algorithm for approximating item frequencies to the matrix sketching setting. The algorithm receives the rows of a large matrix $A \in \R^{n \times m}$ one after the other in a streaming fashion. It maintains…
Completing low-rank matrices from subsampled measurements has received much attention in the past decade. Existing works indicate that $\mathcal{O}(nr\log^2(n))$ datums are required to theoretically secure the completion of an $n \times n$…
Low-rank approximation in data streams is a fundamental and significant task in computing science, machine learning and statistics. Multiple streaming algorithms have emerged over years and most of them are inspired by randomized…
Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search and Approximate Kernel Density Estimation (A-KDE) are fundamental problems at the core of modern machine learning, with broad applications in data analysis, information systems, and large-scale…
In this work, we study distributed sketching methods for large scale regression problems. We leverage multiple randomized sketches for reducing the problem dimensions as well as preserving privacy and improving straggler resilience in…
A matrix algorithm runs superfast (aka at sublinear cost) if it involves much fewer flops and memory cells than an input matrix has entries. Big Data are frequently represented by matrices of immense sizes that cannot be handled directly…
Randomized linear system solvers have become popular as they have the potential to reduce floating point complexity while still achieving desirable convergence rates. One particularly promising class of methods, random sketching solvers,…
We derive optimal statistical and computational complexity bounds for exp-concave stochastic minimization in terms of the effective dimension. For common eigendecay patterns of the population covariance matrix, this quantity is…
We consider the problem of fitting the parameters of a high-dimensional linear regression model. In the regime where the number of parameters $p$ is comparable to or exceeds the sample size $n$, a successful approach uses an…
Recent work has explored transforming data sets into smaller, approximate summaries in order to scale Bayesian inference. We examine a related problem in which the parameters of a Bayesian model are very large and expensive to store in…
We present the first efficient averaging sampler that achieves asymptotically optimal randomness complexity and near-optimal sample complexity. For any $\delta < \varepsilon$ and any constant $\alpha > 0$, our sampler uses $m + O(\log (1 /…
Sketching-based preconditioners have been shown to accelerate the solution of dense least-squares problems with coefficient matrices having substantially more rows than columns. The cost of generating these preconditioners can be reduced by…
We show how to approximate a data matrix $\mathbf{A}$ with a much smaller sketch $\mathbf{\tilde A}$ that can be used to solve a general class of constrained k-rank approximation problems to within $(1+\epsilon)$ error. Importantly, this…
We study the problem of learning a structured approximation (low-rank, sparse, banded, etc.) to an unknown matrix $A$ given access to matrix-vector product (matvec) queries of the form $x \rightarrow Ax$ and $x \rightarrow A^Tx$. This…
In this paper, based on an optimization problem, a sketch-and-project method for solving the linear matrix equation AXB = C is proposed. We provide a thorough convergence analysis for the new method and derive a lower bound on the…
This paper is concerned with the approximation of a function $u$ in a given approximation space $V_m$ of dimension $m$ from evaluations of the function at $n$ suitably chosen points. The aim is to construct an approximation of $u$ in $V_m$…
Randomized matrix sparsification has proven to be a fruitful technique for producing faster algorithms in applications ranging from graph partitioning to semidefinite programming. In the decade or so of research into this technique, the…
We initiate a broad study of classical problems in the streaming model with insertions and deletions in the setting where we allow the approximation factor $\alpha$ to be much larger than $1$. Such algorithms can use significantly less…
The demand of computational resources for the modeling process increases as the scale of the datasets does, since traditional approaches for regression involve inverting huge data matrices. The main problem relies on the large data size,…
Iterative Hessian sketch (IHS) is an effective sketching method for modeling large-scale data. It was originally proposed by Pilanci and Wainwright (2016; JMLR) based on randomized sketching matrices. However, it is computationally…