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In this paper, we further investigate and refine the subspace-constrained preconditioning technique to enhance the theoretical and numerical convergence properties of randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems. In particular,…

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Many real-world applications are addressed through a linear least-squares problem formulation, whose solution is calculated by means of an iterative approach. A huge amount of studies has been carried out in the optimization field to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Anastasia Cornelio , Federica Porta , Marco Prato , Luca Zanni

We develop a family of accelerated stochastic algorithms that minimize sums of convex functions. Our algorithms improve upon the fastest running time for empirical risk minimization (ERM), and in particular linear least-squares regression,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-25 Roy Frostig , Rong Ge , Sham M. Kakade , Aaron Sidford

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

We present iterative solvers to approximate the solution of numerical schemes for stochastic Stefan problems. After briefly talking about the convergence results, we tackle the question of efficient strategies for solving the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Muhammad Awais Khan , Jérôme Droniou , Kim-Ngan Le , Iuliu Sorin Pop

Sketching is a probabilistic data compression technique that has been largely developed in the computer science community. Numerical operations on big datasets can be intolerably slow; sketching algorithms address this issue by generating a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-04 Daniel Ahfock , William J. Astle , Sylvia Richardson

Linear regression is a fundamental and primitive problem in supervised machine learning, with applications ranging from epidemiology to finance. In this work, we propose methods for speeding up distributed linear regression. We do so by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Neophytos Charalambides , Hessam Mahdavifar , Mert Pilanci , Alfred O. Hero

Two widely used randomized algorithms are the sketch-and-solve method for least-squares regression and the randomized SVD for low-rank approximation. These algorithms apply a random embedding to compress a target matrix, and they perform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Ethan N. Epperly , Robert J. Webber

Iterative Hessian sketch (IHS) is an effective sketching method for modeling large-scale data. It was originally proposed by Pilanci and Wainwright (2016; JMLR) based on randomized sketching matrices. However, it is computationally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-10 Aijun Zhang , Hengtao Zhang , Guosheng Yin

In this paper we propose a quantum algorithm to determine the Tikhonov regularization parameter and solve the ill-conditioned linear equations, for example, arising from the finite element discretization of linear or nonlinear inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Changpeng Shao , Hua Xiang

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

The randomized row method is a popular representative of the iterative algorithm because of its efficiency in solving the overdetermined and consistent systems of linear equations. In this paper, we present an extended randomized multiple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Nian-Ci Wu , Chengzhi Liu , Yatian Wang , Qian Zuo

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

Motivated by the randomized sketch to solve a variety of problems in scientific computation, we improve both the maximal weighted residual Kaczmarz method and the randomized block average Kaczmarz method using two new randomized sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Haochen Jiang , Dongdong Liu , Xianping Wu , Xu Yang

Linear sketching algorithms have been widely used for processing large-scale distributed and streaming datasets. Their popularity is largely due to the fact that linear sketches can be naturally composed in the distributed model and be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Jiecao Chen , Qin Zhang

Least squares approximation is a technique to find an approximate solution to a system of linear equations that has no exact solution. In a typical setting, one lets $n$ be the number of constraints and $d$ be the number of variables, with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Petros Drineas , Michael W. Mahoney , S. Muthukrishnan , Tamas Sarlos

The Dirac-Frenkel variational principle is a widely used building block for using nonlinear parametrizations in the context of model reduction and numerically solving partial differential equations; however, it typically leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Yijun Dong , Paul Schwerdtner , Benjamin Peherstorfer

We provide an exact analysis of a class of randomized algorithms for solving overdetermined least-squares problems. We consider first-order methods, where the gradients are pre-conditioned by an approximation of the Hessian, based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

Sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for speeding up problems in numerical linear algebra, such as regression. In the overconstrained regression problem, one is given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$, with $n \gg d$, as well as an $n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Eric Price , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff

We develop a novel, fundamental and surprisingly simple randomized iterative method for solving consistent linear systems. Our method has six different but equivalent interpretations: sketch-and-project, constrain-and-approximate, random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Robert M. Gower , Peter Richtárik