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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

Quantile-based randomized Kaczmarz (QRK) was recently introduced to efficiently solve sparsely corrupted linear systems $\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x}^*+\mathbf{\epsilon} = \mathbf{b}$ [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 43(2), 605-637], where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Jian-Feng Cai , Junren Chen , Anna Ma , Tong Wu

Tile low rank representations of dense matrices partition them into blocks of roughly uniform size, where each off-diagonal tile is compressed and stored as its own low rank factorization. They offer an attractive representation for many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Wajih Boukaram , Stefano Zampini , George Turkiyyah , David Keyes

We introduce a randomized algorithm, namely RCHOL, to construct an approximate Cholesky factorization for a given Laplacian matrix (a.k.a., graph Laplacian). From a graph perspective, the exact Cholesky factorization introduces a clique in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Chao Chen , Tianyu Liang , George Biros

Direct factorization methods for the solution of large, sparse linear systems that arise from PDE discretizations are robust, but typically show poor time and memory scalability for large systems. In this paper, we describe an efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Jeffrey N. Chadwick , David S. Bindel

Randomized sampling has recently been proven a highly efficient technique for computing approximate factorizations of matrices that have low numerical rank. This paper describes an extension of such techniques to a wider class of matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

In this article, an efficient numerical method for computing both the matrix exponential and a finite horizon controllability Gramian in Cholesky-factored form is proposed. The method is applicable to general dense matrices of moderate size…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Tony Stillfjord , Filip Tronarp

Randomized sampling has recently been demonstrated to be an efficient technique for computing approximate low-rank factorizations of matrices for which fast methods for computing matrix vector products are available. This paper describes an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

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

As Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an essential medical test, many techniques have been proposed to reconstruct high-quality images using a smaller amount of radiation. One approach is to employ algebraic factorization methods to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Mónica Chillarón , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Vicente Vidal , Gumersindo Verdú

We present Flip-Flop Spectrum-Revealing QR (Flip-Flop SRQR) factorization, a significantly faster and more reliable variant of the QLP factorization of Stewart, for low-rank matrix approximations. Flip-Flop SRQR uses SRQR factorization to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Yuehua Feng , Jianwei Xiao , Ming Gu

We present an overview of randomized orthogonalization techniques that construct a well-conditioned basis whose sketch is orthonormal. Randomized orthogonalization has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for reducing the computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Jean-Guillaume de Damas , Laura Grigori , Igor Simunec , Edouard Timsit

This paper studies the estimation of a large covariance matrix. We introduce a novel procedure called ChoSelect based on the Cholesky factor of the inverse covariance. This method uses a dimension reduction strategy by selecting the pattern…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-13 Nicolas Verzelen

This paper highlights a formal connection between two families of widely used matrix factorization algorithms in numerical linear algebra. One family consists of the Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm and its variants for computing the Hermitian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Isabel Detherage , Rikhav Shah

Cholesky factorization is a widely used method for solving linear systems involving symmetric, positive-definite matrices, and can be an attractive choice in applications where a high degree of numerical stability is needed. One such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Felix Liu , Albin Fredriksson , Stefano Markidis

The dominant cost in solving least-square problems using Newton's method is often that of factorizing the Hessian matrix over multiple values of the regularization parameter ($\lambda$). We propose an efficient way to interpolate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Da Kuang , Alex Gittens , Raffay Hamid

We present a fast direct algorithm for computing symmetric factorizations, i.e. $A = WW^T$, of symmetric positive-definite hierarchical matrices with weak-admissibility conditions. The computational cost for the symmetric factorization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Sivaram Ambikasaran , Michael O'Neil , Karan Raj Singh

We present a fast sparse matrix permutation algorithm tailored to linear systems arising from triangle meshes. Our approach produces nested-dissection-style permutations while significantly reducing permutation runtime overhead. Rather than…

In this paper an approach for finding a sparse incomplete Cholesky factor through an incomplete orthogonal factorization with Givens rotations is discussed and applied to Gaussian Markov random fields (GMRFs). The incomplete Cholesky factor…

Computation · Statistics 2013-07-05 Xiangping Hu , Daniel Simpson , Håvard Rue

Square matrices appear in many machine learning problems and models. Optimization over a large square matrix is expensive in memory and in time. Therefore an economic approximation is needed. Conventional approximation approaches factorize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ruslan Khalitov , Tong Yu , Lei Cheng , Zhirong Yang