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We study randomized sketching methods for approximately solving least-squares problem with a general convex constraint. The quality of a least-squares approximation can be assessed in different ways: either in terms of the value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

This paper studies the solution of nonsymmetric linear systems by preconditioned Krylov methods based on the normal equations, LSQR in particular. On some examples, preconditioned LSQR is seen to produce errors many orders of magnitude…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Ethan N. Epperly , Anne Greenbaum , Yuji Nakatsukasa

We propose iterative projection methods for solving square or rectangular consistent linear systems Ax = b. Existing projection methods use sketching matrices (possibly randomized) to generate a sequence of small projected subproblems, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Johannes J. Brust , Michael A. Saunders

We propose APLICUR, an adaptive preconditioning framework for large-scale linear least-squares (LLS) problems. Using a single small sketch computed once at initialization, APLICUR incrementally refines a CUR-based preconditioner throughout…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Jung Eun Huh , Coralia Cartis , Yuji Nakatsukasa

Least squares method is one of the simplest and most popular techniques applied in data fitting, imaging processing and high dimension data analysis. The classic methods like QR and SVD decomposition for solving least squares problems has a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Long Chen , Huiwen Wu

In this paper, we study a class of approximation problems, appearing in data approximation and signal processing. The approximations are constructed as combinations of polynomial splines (piecewise polynomials), whose parameters are subject…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Zahra Roshan Zamir , Nadezda Sukhorukova

This paper focuses on solving large-scale, ill-conditioned, and overdetermined sparse least squares problems that arise from numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), mainly from the random feature method. To address these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Jingrun Chen , Longze Tan

In this research, to solve the large indefinite least squares problem, we firstly transform its normal equation into a sparse block three-by-three linear systems, then use GMRES method with an accelerated preconditioner to solve it. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Jun Li , Lingsheng Meng

In this paper, we revisit the large-scale constrained linear regression problem and propose faster methods based on some recent developments in sketching and optimization. Our algorithms combine (accelerated) mini-batch SGD with a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

This paper develops the preconditioning technique as a method to address the accuracy issue caused by ill-conditioning. Given a preconditioner $M$ for an ill-conditioned linear system $Ax=b$, we show that, if the inverse of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Qiang Ye

We propose a new random sketching approach for embedding high-dimensional Hilbert-Schmidt operators, using random input-output pairs. Such operator can then be approximated in a low-dimensional subspace of operators by solving a small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Oleg Balabanov , Anthony Nouy , Alexandre Pasco

This survey highlights the recent advances in algorithms for numerical linear algebra that have come from the technique of linear sketching, whereby given a matrix, one first compresses it to a much smaller matrix by multiplying it by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-11 David P. Woodruff

Non-linear least squares solvers are used across a broad range of offline and real-time model fitting problems. Most improvements of the basic Gauss-Newton algorithm tackle convergence guarantees or leverage the sparsity of the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Huu Le , Christopher Zach , Edward Rosten , Oliver J. Woodford

For linear systems $Ax=b$ we develop iterative algorithms based on a sketch-and-project approach. By using judicious choices for the sketch, such as the history of residuals, we develop weighting strategies that enable short recursive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Johannes J Brust , Michael A Saunders

Sketching techniques have gained popularity in numerical linear algebra to accelerate the solution of least squares problems. The so-called $\varepsilon$-subspace embedding property of a sketching matrix $S$ has been largely used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Davide Palitta , Valeria Simoncini

In this paper, we present explicit expressions for the mixed and componentwise condition numbers of the truncated total least squares (TTLS) solution of $A\boldsymbol{x} \approx \boldsymbol{b} $ under the genericity condition, where $A$ is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Qing-Le Meng , Huai-An Diao , Zheng-Jian Bai

In this paper, we propose a space-time least-squares isogeometric method to solve parabolic evolution problems, well suited for high-degree smooth splines in the space-time domain. We focus on the linear solver and its computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Monica Montardini , Matteo Negri , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

We present Sketch 'n Solve, an open-source Python package that implements efficient randomized numerical linear algebra (RandNLA) techniques for solving large-scale least squares problems. While sketch-and-solve algorithms have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Alex Lavaee

In this paper, we are concerned with efficiently solving the sequences of regularized linear least squares problems associated with employing Tikhonov-type regularization with regularization operators designed to enforce edge recovery. An…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Matthias Bolten , Scott P. MacLachlan , Misha E. Kilmer

We present a stationary iteration based upon a block splitting for a class of indefinite least squares problem. Convergence of the proposed method is investigated and optimal value of the involving parameter is used. The induced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh