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We introduce a fast algorithm for computing sparse Fourier transforms supported on smooth curves or surfaces. This problem appear naturally in several important problems in wave scattering and reflection seismology. The main observation is…

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Randomized Hadamard Transforms (RHTs) have emerged as a computationally efficient alternative to the use of dense unstructured random matrices across a range of domains in computer science and machine learning. For several applications such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Jelani Nelson

Large language models require massive memory footprints, severely limiting deployment on consumer hardware. Quantization reduces memory through lower numerical precision, but extreme 2-bit quantization suffers from catastrophic performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Bingxin Xu , Zhen Dong , Oussama Elachqar , Yuzhang Shang

The successful training of deep neural networks requires addressing challenges such as overfitting, numerical instabilities leading to divergence, and increasing variance in the residual stream. A common solution is to apply regularization…

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In addition to recent developments in computing speed and memory, methodological advances have contributed to significant gains in the performance of stochastic simulation. In this paper, we focus on variance reduction for matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-28 Anant Mathur , Sarat Moka , Zdravko Botev

Large foundation models are becoming ubiquitous, but training them from scratch is prohibitively expensive. Thus, efficiently adapting these powerful models to downstream tasks is increasingly important. In this paper, we study a principled…

This paper introduces the interpolative butterfly factorization for nearly optimal implementation of several transforms in harmonic analysis, when their explicit formulas satisfy certain analytic properties and the matrix representations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Yingzhou Li , Haizhao Yang

We develop and analyze a broad family of stochastic/randomized algorithms for inverting a matrix. We also develop specialized variants maintaining symmetry or positive definiteness of the iterates. All methods in the family converge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Robert M. Gower , Peter Richtárik

Matrix factorization is a well-studied task in machine learning for compactly representing large, noisy data. In our approach, instead of using the traditional concept of matrix rank, we define a new notion of link-rank based on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-02 Pouya Pezeshkpour , Carlos Guestrin , Sameer Singh

Random matrix theory (RMT) is based on two assumptions: (1) matrix-element independence, and (2) base invariance. Most of the proposed generalizations keep the first assumption and violate the second. Recently, several authors presented…

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This paper introduces the multidimensional butterfly factorization as a data-sparse representation of multidimensional kernel matrices that satisfy the complementary low-rank property. This factorization approximates such a kernel matrix of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Yingzhou Li , Haizhao Yang , Lexing Ying

Spectral and numerical properties of classes of random orthogonal butterfly matrices, as introduced by Parker (1995), are discussed, including the uniformity of eigenvalue distributions. These matrices are important because the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Thomas Trogdon

Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) are widely used to reduce memory and computational costs in deep learning. However, existing implementations, including standard FFT and real FFT (rFFT), cannot achieve true in-place computation. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xinyu Ding , Bangtian Liu , Siyu Liao , Zhongfeng Wang

The purpose of this text is to provide an accessible introduction to a set of recently developed algorithms for factorizing matrices. These new algorithms attain high practical speed by reducing the dimensionality of intermediate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We formulate gaussian and circular random-matrix models representing a coupled system consisting of an absorbing and an amplifying resonator, which are mutually related by a generalized time-reversal symmetry. Motivated by optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 Christopher Birchall , Henning Schomerus

Several recent randomized linear algebra algorithms rely upon fast dimension reduction methods. A popular choice is the Subsampled Randomized Hadamard Transform (SRHT). In this article, we address the efficacy, in the Frobenius and spectral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Christos Boutsidis , Alex Gittens

Randomized algorithms for low-rank approximation of quaternion matrices have gained increasing attention in recent years. However, existing methods overlook pass efficiency, the ability to limit the number of passes over the input…

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Normalizing flows model complex probability distributions using maps obtained by composing invertible layers. Special linear layers such as masked and 1x1 convolutions play a key role in existing architectures because they increase…

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Probabilistic Transformer (PT), a white-box probabilistic model for contextual word representation, has demonstrated substantial similarity to standard Transformers in both computational structure and downstream task performance on small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Penghao Kuang , Haoyi Wu , Kewei Tu

The deterministic recursive pivot-free algorithms for the computation of generalized Bruhat decomposition of the matrix in the field and for the computation of the inverse matrix are presented. This method has the same complexity as…

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