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The Cholesky decomposition is a fundamental tool for solving linear systems with symmetric and positive definite matrices which are ubiquitous in linear algebra, optimization, and machine learning. Its numerical stability can be improved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Filip de Roos , Fabio Muratore

Low-rank matrix approximation is extremely useful in the analysis of data that arises in scientific computing, engineering applications, and data science. However, as data sizes grow, traditional low-rank matrix approximation methods, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Bolong Zhang , Michael Mascagni

Low rank approximation of matrices has been well studied in literature. Singular value decomposition, QR decomposition with column pivoting, rank revealing QR factorization (RRQR), Interpolative decomposition etc are classical deterministic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 N. Kishore Kumar , Jan Shneider

Dense kernel matrices resulting from pairwise evaluations of a kernel function arise naturally in machine learning and statistics. Previous work in constructing sparse approximate inverse Cholesky factors of such matrices by minimizing…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-12 Stephen Huan , Joseph Guinness , Matthias Katzfuss , Houman Owhadi , Florian Schäfer

This paper considers the problem of robustly estimating a structured covariance matrix with an elliptical underlying distribution with known mean. In applications where the covariance matrix naturally possesses a certain structure, taking…

Applications · Statistics 2016-06-29 Ying Sun , Prabhu Babu , Daniel P. Palomar

We develop an accelerated algorithm for computing an approximate eigenvalue decomposition of bistochastic normalized kernel matrices. Our approach constructs a low rank approximation of the original kernel matrix by the pivoted partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Chris Vales , Dimitrios Giannakis

Randomized sketching is currently introduced into every area of numerical linear algebra. In Krylov subspace methods, it allows runtime savings at the cost of small accuracy reductions. This work offers a different view on sketching in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Kai Bergermann

Matrices with low-rank structure are ubiquitous in scientific computing. Choosing an appropriate rank is a key step in many computational algorithms that exploit low-rank structure. However, estimating the rank has been done largely in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Maike Meier , Yuji Nakatsukasa

We give proofs of QR factorization, Cholesky's factorization, and LDU factorization using the inverse function theorem. As a consequence, we obtain analytic dependence of these matrix factorizations which does not follow immediately using…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Paul W. Y. Lee

Alternating Minimization is a widely used and empirically successful heuristic for matrix completion and related low-rank optimization problems. Theoretical guarantees for Alternating Minimization have been hard to come by and are still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Moritz Hardt

Low-latency gravitational wave search pipelines such as GstLAL take advantage of low-rank factorization of the template matrix via singular value decomposition (SVD). With unprecedented improvements in detector bandwidth and sensitivity in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 Amit Reza , Anirban Dasgupta , Anand S. Sengupta

The method of random projection (RP) is the standard technique in machine learning and many other areas, for dimensionality reduction, approximate near neighbor search, compressed sensing, etc. Basically, RP provides a simple and effective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-26 Xiaoyun Li , Ping Li

We investigate the continuous analogue of the Cholesky factorization, namely the pivoted Cholesky algorithm. Our analysis establishes quantitative convergence guarantees for kernels of minimal smoothness. We prove that for a symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Sungwoo Jeong , Alex Townsend

Sparse linear algebra routines are fundamental building blocks of a large variety of scientific applications. Direct solvers, which are methods for solving linear systems via the factorization of matrices into products of triangular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Valentin Le Fèvre , Tetsuzo Usui , Marc Casas

Randomized algorithms for low-rank matrix approximation are investigated, with the emphasis on the fixed-precision problem and computational efficiency for handling large matrices. The algorithms are based on the so-called QB factorization,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Wenjian Yu , Yu Gu , Yaohang Li

Recently, convex formulations of low-rank matrix factorization problems have received considerable attention in machine learning. However, such formulations often require solving for a matrix of the size of the data matrix, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Benjamin D. Haeffele , Rene Vidal

We present a new algorithm for spectral clustering based on a column-pivoted QR factorization that may be directly used for cluster assignment or to provide an initial guess for k-means. Our algorithm is simple to implement, direct, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Anil Damle , Victor Minden , Lexing Ying

We consider the problem of finding the optimal coefficient vector that maximizes the computation rate at a relay in the compute-and-forward scheme. Based on the idea of sphere decoding, we propose a highly efficient algorithm that finds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jinming Wen , Baojian Zhou , Wai Ho Mow , Xiao-Wen Chang

A QR factorization of a tall and skinny matrix with n columns can be represented as a reduction. The operation used along the reduction tree has in input two n-by-n upper triangular matrices and in output an n-by-n upper triangular matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-24 Julien Langou

Quadratic regression (QR) models naturally extend linear models by considering interaction effects between the covariates. To conduct model selection in QR, it is important to maintain the hierarchical model structure between main effects…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-15 Ning Hao , Yang Feng , Hao Helen Zhang