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Gaussian processes (GPs) offer appealing properties but are costly to train at scale. Sparse variational GP (SVGP) approximations reduce cost yet still rely on Cholesky decompositions of kernel matrices, ill-suited to low-precision,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Stefano Cortinovis , Laurence Aitchison , Stefanos Eleftheriadis , Mark van der Wilk

The estimation of a precision matrix is a crucial problem in various research fields, particularly when working with high dimensional data. In such settings, the most common approach is to use the penalized maximum likelihood. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-10 Vahe Avagyan

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

Large-scale optimization problems that seek sparse solutions have become ubiquitous. They are routinely solved with various specialized first-order methods. Although such methods are often fast, they usually struggle with not-so-well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Valentina De Simone , Daniela di Serafino , Jacek Gondzio , Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Marco Viola

We propose a new class of multi-layer iterative schemes for solving sparse linear systems in saddle point structure. The new scheme consist of an iterative preconditioner that is based on the (approximate) nullspace method, combined with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Murat Manguoğlu , Volker Mehrmann

An adaptive scheme to generate reduced-order models for parametric nonlinear dynamical systems is proposed. It aims to automatize the POD-Greedy algorithm combined with empirical interpolation. At each iteration, it is able to adaptively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Sridhar Chellappa , Lihong Feng , Peter Benner

We propose a Multi-step Screening Procedure (MSP) for the recovery of sparse linear models in high-dimensional data. This method is based on a repeated small penalty strategy that quickly converges to an estimate within a few iterations.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-13 Yuehan Yang , Ji Zhu , Edward I. George

Approximate inference via information projection has been recently introduced as a general-purpose approach for efficient probabilistic inference given sparse variables. This manuscript goes beyond classical sparsity by proposing efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-13 Rajiv Khanna , Joydeep Ghosh , Russell Poldrack , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Sparse matrix ordering is a vital optimization technique often employed for solving large-scale sparse matrices. Its goal is to minimize the matrix bandwidth by reorganizing its rows and columns, thus enhancing efficiency. Conventional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tao Tang , Youfu Jiang , Yingbo Cui , Jianbin Fang , Peng Zhang , Lin Peng , Chun Huang

In sparse optimization, enforcing hard constraints using the $\ell_0$ pseudo-norm offers advantages like controlled sparsity compared to convex relaxations. However, many real-world applications demand not only sparsity constraints but also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 William de Vazelhes , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Bin Gu

Estimation of the precision matrix (or inverse covariance matrix) is of great importance in statistical data analysis and machine learning. However, as the number of parameters scales quadratically with the dimension $p$, computation…

Computation · Statistics 2022-11-02 Qian LI , Binyan Jiang , Defeng Sun

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are powerful kernelized methods for non-parameteric regression used in many applications. However, their use is limited to a few thousand of training samples due to their cubic time complexity. In order to scale GPs…

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

We propose new methods for multivariate linear regression when the regression coefficient matrix is sparse and the error covariance matrix is dense. We assume that the error covariance matrix has equicorrelation across the response…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-13 Daeyoung Ham , Bradley S. Price , Adam J. Rothman

Generative models based on flow matching have attracted significant attention for their simplicity and superior performance in high-resolution image synthesis. By leveraging the instantaneous change-of-variables formula, one can directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yasi Zhang , Peiyu Yu , Yaxuan Zhu , Yingshan Chang , Feng Gao , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong

The recovery of sparse data is at the core of many applications in machine learning and signal processing. While such problems can be tackled using $\ell_1$-regularization as in the LASSO estimator and in the Basis Pursuit approach,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Christian Kümmerle , Claudio Mayrink Verdun , Dominik Stöger

This paper introduces a sparse matrix discrete interpolation method to effectively compute matrix approximations in the reduced order modeling framework. The sparse algorithm developed herein relies on the discrete empirical interpolation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Răzvan Ştefănescu , Adrian Sandu

In inverse problems, it is widely recognized that the incorporation of a sparsity prior yields a regularization effect on the solution. This approach is grounded on the a priori assumption that the unknown can be appropriately represented…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Giovanni S. Alberti , Luca Ratti , Matteo Santacesaria , Silvia Sciutto

In ill-posed dynamic inverse problems expected spatial features and temporal correlation between frames can be leveraged to improve the quality of the computed solution, in particular when the available data are limited and the…

In this paper, we present an advanced approach to solving the inverse rig problem in blendshape animation, using high-quality corrective blendshapes. Our algorithm introduces novel enhancements in three key areas: ensuring high data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Stevo Racković , Cláudia Soares , Dušan Jakovetić

In this paper we propose and analyze new efficient sparse approximate inverse (SPAI) smoothers for solving the two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) Laplacian linear system with geometric multigrid methods. Local Fourier analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Yunhui He , Jun Liu , Xiang-Sheng Wang