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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

We propose a fast greedy algorithm to compute sparse representations of signals from continuous dictionaries that are factorizable, i.e., with atoms that can be separated as a product of sub-atoms. Existing algorithms strongly reduce the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Gilles Monnoyer de Galland , Luc Vandendorpe , Laurent Jacques

Greedy methods have recently been successfully applied to generalized kernel interpolation, or the recovery of a function from data stemming from the evaluation of linear functionals, including the approximation of solutions of linear PDEs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Bernard Haasdonk , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel , Daniel Winkle

We propose a fine-grained hypergraph model for sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM), a key computational kernel in scientific computing and data analysis whose performance is often communication bound. This model correctly describes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Grey Ballard , Alex Druinsky , Nicholas Knight , Oded Schwartz

Multiplication of a sparse matrix with another (dense or sparse) matrix is a fundamental operation that captures the computational patterns of many data science applications, including but not limited to graph algorithms, sparsely connected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Aydın Buluç

In complex visual recognition tasks it is typical to adopt multiple descriptors, that describe different aspects of the images, for obtaining an improved recognition performance. Descriptors that have diverse forms can be fused into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Andreas Spanias

Matrices resulting from the discretization of a kernel function, e.g., in the context of integral equations or sampling probability distributions, can frequently be approximated by interpolation. In order to improve the efficiency, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Steffen Börm

The integration of renewable energy sources and distributed generation in the power system calls for fast and reliable predictions of grid dynamics to achieve efficient control and ensure stability. In this work, we present a novel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Carlos Moreno-Blazquez , Filiberto Fele , Teodoro Alamo

A nearly optimal explicitly-sparse representation for oscillatory kernels is presented in this work by developing a curvelet based method. Multilevel curvelet-like functions are constructed as the transform of the original nodal basis. Then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Yanchuang Cao , Jun Liu , Dawei Chen

This paper proposes an efficient general alternating-direction implicit (GADI) framework for solving large sparse linear systems. The convergence property of the GADI framework is discussed. Most of the existing ADI methods can be viewed as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Kai Jiang , Xuehong Su , Juan Zhang

In recent years, there has been widespread adoption of machine learning-based approaches to automate the solving of partial differential equations (PDEs). Among these approaches, Gaussian processes (GPs) and kernel methods have garnered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Yifan Chen , Houman Owhadi , Florian Schäfer

The sparse pseudo-input Gaussian process (SPGP) is a new approximation method for speeding up GP regression in the case of a large number of data points N. The approximation is controlled by the gradient optimization of a small set of M…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Edward Snelson , Zoubin Ghahramani

Selected inversion is essential for applications such as Bayesian inference, electronic structure calculations, and inverse covariance estimation, where computing only specific elements of large sparse matrix inverses significantly reduces…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Esmail Abdul Fattah , Hatem Ltaief , Havard Rue , David Keyes

Learning the kernel parameters for Gaussian processes is often the computational bottleneck in applications such as online learning, Bayesian optimization, or active learning. Amortizing parameter inference over different datasets is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Matthias Bitzer , Mona Meister , Christoph Zimmer

Graphs are useful to interpret widely used image processing methods, e.g., bilateral filtering, or to develop new ones, e.g., kernel based techniques. However, simple graph constructions are often used, where edge weight and connectivity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

We propose a new method to create compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by exploiting sparse convolutions. Different from previous works that learn sparsity in models, we directly employ hand-crafted kernels with regular sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Marco Pistoia , Gwo Giun Lee

Kernel-based clustering algorithm can identify and capture the non-linear structure in datasets, and thereby it can achieve better performance than linear clustering. However, computing and storing the entire kernel matrix occupy so large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Li Chen , Shuisheng Zhou , Jiajun Ma

Gaussian processes (GPs) are an important tool in machine learning and statistics with applications ranging from social and natural science through engineering. They constitute a powerful kernelized non-parametric method with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-20 Manuel Schürch , Dario Azzimonti , Alessio Benavoli , Marco Zaffalon

This article advocates the use of conformal prediction (CP) methods for Gaussian process (GP) interpolation to enhance the calibration of prediction intervals. We begin by illustrating that using a GP model with parameters selected by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Aurélien Pion , Emmanuel Vazquez

Accurate channel state information (CSI) is critical for current and next-generation multi-antenna systems. Yet conventional pilot-based estimators incur prohibitive overhead as antenna counts grow. In this paper, we address this challenge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Syed Luqman Shah , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Italo Atzeni