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Cholesky linear solvers are a critical bottleneck in challenging applications within computer graphics and scientific computing. These applications include but are not limited to elastodynamic barrier methods such as Incremental Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Behrooz Zarebavani , Danny M. Kaufman , David I. W. Levin , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

This paper presents new quadrature rules for functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space using nodes drawn by a sampling algorithm known as randomly pivoted Cholesky. The resulting computational procedure compares favorably to previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Ethan N. Epperly , Elvira Moreno

We present three methods for distributed memory parallel inverse factorization of block-sparse Hermitian positive definite matrices. The three methods are a recursive variant of the AINV inverse Cholesky algorithm, iterative refinement, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Anton G. Artemov , Elias Rudberg , Emanuel H. Rubensson

Inference for state-of-the-art deep neural networks is computationally expensive, making them difficult to deploy on constrained hardware environments. An efficient way to reduce this complexity is to quantize the weight parameters and/or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

Prior to computing the Cholesky factorization of a sparse, symmetric positive definite matrix, a reordering of the rows and columns is computed so as to reduce both the number of fill elements in Cholesky factor and the number of arithmetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Robert Luce , Esmond Ng

The randomly pivoted partial Cholesky algorithm (RPCholesky) computes a factorized rank-k approximation of an N x N positive-semidefinite (psd) matrix. RPCholesky requires only (k + 1) N entry evaluations and O(k^2 N) additional arithmetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Yifan Chen , Ethan N. Epperly , Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber

The accuracy and complexity of machine learning algorithms based on kernel optimization are limited by the set of kernels over which they are able to optimize. An ideal set of kernels should: admit a linear parameterization (for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Brendon K. Colbert , Matthew M. Peet

Efficient and accurate low-rank approximations of multiple data sources are essential in the era of big data. The scaling of kernel-based learning algorithms to large datasets is limited by the O(n^2) computation and storage complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Martin Stražar , Tomaž Curk

Dense kernel matrices $\Theta \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times N}$ obtained from point evaluations of a covariance function $G$ at locations $\{ x_{i} \}_{1 \leq i \leq N} \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$ arise in statistics, machine learning, and numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Florian Schäfer , T. J. Sullivan , Houman Owhadi

We present memory-efficient and scalable algorithms for kernel methods used in machine learning. Using hierarchical matrix approximations for the kernel matrix the memory requirements, the number of floating point operations, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Elizaveta Rebrova , Gustavo Chavez , Yang Liu , Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Many neural learning algorithms require to solve large least square systems in order to obtain synaptic weights. Moore-Penrose inverse matrices allow for solving such systems, even with rank deficiency, and they provide minimum-norm vectors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Pierre Courrieu

Sketching is widely used in randomized linear algebra for low-rank matrix approximation, column subset selection, and many other problems, and it has gained significant traction in machine learning applications. However, sketching large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hussam Al Daas , Grey Ballard , Laura Grigori , Md Taufique Hussain , Suraj Kumar , Mohammad Marufur Rahman , Kathryn Rouse

Dense linear algebra kernels, such as linear solvers or tensor contractions, are fundamental components of many scientific computing applications. In this work, we present a novel method of deriving parallel I/O lower bounds for this broad…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Tal Ben-Nun , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Timo Schneider , Maciej Besta , Torsten Hoefler

In this work, we focus on Shifted CholeskyQR (SCholeskyQR) for sparse matrices. We provide a new shifted item $s$ for Shifted CholeskyQR3 (SCholeskyQR3) based on the number of non-zero elements (nnze) and the element with the largest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Haoran Guan , Yuwei Fan

We present parallel and sequential dense QR factorization algorithms for tall and skinny matrices and general rectangular matrices that both minimize communication, and are as stable as Householder QR. The sequential and parallel algorithms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-09-16 James Demmel , Laura Grigori , Mark Hoemmen , Julien Langou

Most kernel-based methods, such as kernel or Gaussian process regression, kernel PCA, ICA, or $k$-means clustering, do not scale to large datasets, because constructing and storing the kernel matrix $\mathbf{K}_n$ requires at least…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Daniele Calandriello , Alessandro Lazaric , Michal Valko

We study the limits of communication efficiency for function computation in collocated networks within the framework of multi-terminal block source coding theory. With the goal of computing a desired function of sources at a sink, nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Prakash Ishwar , Piyush Gupta

Reducing communication - either between levels of a memory hierarchy or between processors over a network - is a key component of performance optimization (in both time and energy) for many problems, including dense linear algebra, particle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Grace Dinh , James Demmel

We present parallel and sequential dense QR factorization algorithms that are both optimal (up to polylogarithmic factors) in the amount of communication they perform, and just as stable as Householder QR. We prove optimality by extending…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-08-21 James Demmel , Laura Grigori , Mark Hoemmen , Julien Langou

We present scalable parallel algorithms with sublinear per-processor communication volume and low latency for several fundamental problems related to finding the most relevant elements in a set, for various notions of relevance: We begin…

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