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Many data-fitting applications require the solution of an optimization problem involving a sum of large number of functions of high dimensional parameter. Here, we consider the problem of minimizing a sum of $n$ functions over a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Michael W. Mahoney

Sparsity finds applications in areas as diverse as statistics, machine learning, and signal processing. Computations over sparse structures are less complex compared to their dense counterparts, and their storage consumes less space. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Omar M. Sleem , M. E. Ashour , N. S. Aybat , Constantino M. Lagoa

We present a unified framework for quantum sensitivity sampling, extending the advantages of quantum computing to a broad class of classical approximation problems. Our unified framework provides a streamlined approach for constructing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Lichen Zhang

A new lower bound on the average reconstruction error variance of multidimensional sampling and reconstruction is presented. It applies to sampling on arbitrary lattices in arbitrary dimensions, assuming a stochastic process with constant,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Erik Agrell , Balázs Csébfalvi

In this work, we propose a new randomized algorithm for computing a low-rank approximation to a given matrix. Taking an approach different from existing literature, our method first involves a specific biased sampling, with an element being…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Prateek Jain , Sujay Sanghavi

We prove that SVP$_p$ is NP-hard to approximate within a factor of $2^{\log^{1 - \varepsilon} n}$, for all constants $\varepsilon > 0$ and $p > 2$, under standard deterministic Karp reductions. This result is also the first proof that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Isaac M. Hair , Amit Sahai

It is well known that $\ell_1$ minimization can be used to recover sufficiently sparse unknown signals from compressed linear measurements. In fact, exact thresholds on the sparsity, as a function of the ratio between the system dimensions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-08 M. Amin Khajehnejad , Weiyu Xu , A. Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

Concentration of measure has been argued to be the fundamental cause of adversarial vulnerability. Mahloujifar et al. presented an empirical way to measure the concentration of a data distribution using samples, and employed it to find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jack Prescott , Xiao Zhang , David Evans

Despite the undeniable progress in visual recognition tasks fueled by deep neural networks, there exists recent evidence showing that these models are poorly calibrated, resulting in over-confident predictions. The standard practices of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Balamurali Murugesan , Bingyuan Liu , Adrian Galdran , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

We establish improved sample-complexity bounds for sample-based Lindbladian simulation based on the Wave Matrix Lindbladization (WML) algorithm. For a jump operator $L$ with dimension $d$, we derive an explicit non-asymptotic sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Siheon Park , Youngjin Seo , Byeongseon Go , Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde , Hyukjoon Kwon

We reconsider randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices such as Laplacian and kernel matrices that arise in data analysis and machine learning applications. Our main results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Alex Gittens , Michael W. Mahoney

We consider the approximation rates of shallow neural networks with respect to the variation norm. Upper bounds on these rates have been established for sigmoidal and ReLU activation functions, but it has remained an important open problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-10 Jonathan W. Siegel , Jinchao Xu

The Lp regression problem takes as input a matrix $A \in \Real^{n \times d}$, a vector $b \in \Real^n$, and a number $p \in [1,\infty)$, and it returns as output a number ${\cal Z}$ and a vector $x_{opt} \in \Real^d$ such that ${\cal Z} =…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Anirban Dasgupta , Petros Drineas , Boulos Harb , Ravi Kumar , Michael W. Mahoney

When randomized ensembles such as bagging or random forests are used for binary classification, the prediction error of the ensemble tends to decrease and stabilize as the number of classifiers increases. However, the precise relationship…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Miles E. Lopes

Hyperedge prediction is crucial in hypergraph analysis for understanding complex multi-entity interactions in various web-based applications, including social networks and e-commerce systems. Traditional methods often face difficulties in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Shilin Qu , Weiqing Wang , Yuan-Fang Li , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Compressed Sensing aims to capture attributes of a sparse signal using very few measurements. Cand\`{e}s and Tao showed that sparse reconstruction is possible if the sensing matrix acts as a near isometry on all $\boldsymbol{k}$-sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-18 Robert Calderbank , Stephen Howard , Sina Jafarpour

We consider the approximate recovery of multivariate periodic functions from a discrete set of function values taken on a rank-$s$ integration lattice. The main result is the fact that any (non-)linear reconstruction algorithm taking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Glenn Byrenheid , Lutz Kämmerer , Tino Ullrich , Toni Volkmer

The maximum-entropy remote sampling problem (MERSP) is to select a subset of s random variables from a set of n random variables, so as to maximize the information concerning a set of target random variables that are not directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Gabriel Ponte , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee

We study the circumradius of a random section of an $\ell_p$-ellipsoid, $0<p\le \infty$, and compare it with the minimal circumradius over all sections with subspaces of the same codimension. Our main result is an upper bound for random…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Aicke Hinrichs , Joscha Prochno , Mathias Sonnleitner

Randomized smoothing, using just a simple isotropic Gaussian distribution, has been shown to produce good robustness guarantees against $\ell_2$-norm bounded adversaries. In this work, we show that extending the smoothing technique to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Aounon Kumar , Alexander Levine , Tom Goldstein , Soheil Feizi