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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…

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It is often desirable to reduce the dimensionality of a large dataset by projecting it onto a low-dimensional subspace. Matrix sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for performing such dimensionality reduction very efficiently. Even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Michał Dereziński , Feynman Liang , Zhenyu Liao , Michael W. Mahoney

Many learning tasks, such as cross-validation, parameter search, or leave-one-out analysis, involve multiple instances of similar problems, each instance sharing a large part of learning data with the others. We introduce a robust framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Vu Pham , Laurent El Ghaoui , Arturo Fernandez

We consider the problem of estimation of a low-rank matrix from a limited number of noisy rank-one projections. In particular, we propose two fast, non-convex \emph{proper} algorithms for matrix recovery and support them with rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

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

In this paper, we propose a low rank approximation method for efficiently solving stochastic partial differential equations. Specifically, our method utilizes a novel low rank approximation of the stiffness matrices, which can significantly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Yujun Zhu , Ju Ming , Jie Zhu , Zhongming Wang

A classical problem in matrix computations is the efficient and reliable approximation of a given matrix by a matrix of lower rank. The truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) is known to provide the best such approximation for any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Ming Gu

We present a new algorithm for finding a near optimal low-rank approximation of a matrix $A$ in $O(nnz(A))$ time. Our method is based on a recursive sampling scheme for computing a representative subset of $A$'s columns, which is then used…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Michael B. Cohen , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of structured random sampling has been consistently efficient in its extensive empirical studies around the globe, but adequate formal support for this empirical phenomenon has been missing so…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Victor Pan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

Randomized algorithms are overwhelming methods for low-rank approximation that can alleviate the computational expenditure with great reliability compared to deterministic algorithms. A crucial thought is generating a standard Gaussian…

Computation · Statistics 2025-06-05 Dandan Jiang , Bo Fu , Weiwei Xu

Many automated machine learning methods, such as those for hyperparameter and neural architecture optimization, are computationally expensive because they involve training many different model configurations. In this work, we present a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Martin Wistuba , Tejaswini Pedapati

We study the problem of learning latent variables in Gaussian graphical models. Existing methods for this problem assume that the precision matrix of the observed variables is the superposition of a sparse and a low-rank component. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-12 Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

While large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, their massive scale incurs prohibitive computational and memory costs for pre-training from scratch. Recent studies have investigated the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jiaxi Li , Lu Yin , Li Shen , Jinjin Xu , Liwu Xu , Tianjin Huang , Wenwu Wang , Shiwei Liu , Xilu Wang

We study the problem of learning mixtures of low-rank models, i.e. reconstructing multiple low-rank matrices from unlabelled linear measurements of each. This problem enriches two widely studied settings -- low-rank matrix sensing and mixed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-10 Yanxi Chen , Cong Ma , H. Vincent Poor , Yuxin Chen

This paper argues that randomized linear sketching is a natural tool for on-the-fly compression of data matrices that arise from large-scale scientific simulations and data collection. The technical contribution consists in a new algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

In this paper, we propose a low-rank approximation method based on discrete least-squares for the approximation of a multivariate function from random, noisy-free observations. Sparsity inducing regularization techniques are used within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Mathilde Chevreuil , Régis Lebrun , Anthony Nouy , Prashant Rai

We introduce a technique for estimating a structured covariance matrix from observations of a random vector which have been sketched. Each observed random vector $\boldsymbol{x}_t$ is reduced to a single number by taking its inner product…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

Sketching is a dimensionality reduction technique where one compresses a matrix by linear combinations that are chosen at random. A line of work has shown how to sketch the Hessian to speed up each iteration in a second order method, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff

Multi-task learning, which optimizes performance across multiple tasks, is inherently a multi-objective optimization problem. Various algorithms are developed to provide discrete trade-off solutions on the Pareto front. Recently, continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Weiyu Chen , James T. Kwok

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