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This work addresses the issue of large covariance matrix estimation in high-dimensional statistical analysis. Recently, improved iterative algorithms with positive-definite guarantee have been developed. However, these algorithms cannot be…

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We address the problem of robust sparse estimation of the precision matrix for heavy-tailed distributions in high-dimensional settings. In such high-dimensional contexts, we observe that the covariance matrix can be approximated by a…

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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

We present fast classification techniques for sparse generalized linear and additive models. These techniques can handle thousands of features and thousands of observations in minutes, even in the presence of many highly correlated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiachang Liu , Chudi Zhong , Margo Seltzer , Cynthia Rudin

We present a sparse Gauss-Newton solver for accelerated sensitivity analysis with applications to a wide range of equilibrium-constrained optimization problems. Dense Gauss-Newton solvers have shown promising convergence rates for inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Jonas Zehnder , Stelian Coros , Bernhard Thomaszewski

In this paper, a method via sparse-sparse iteration for computing a sparse incomplete factorization of the inverse of a symmetric positive definite matrix is proposed. The resulting factorized sparse approximate inverse is used as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-08-03 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Faezeh Toutounian

We introduce a new algorithm, called adaptive sparse backfitting algorithm, for solving high dimensional Sparse Additive Model (SpAM) utilizing symmetric, non-negative definite smoothers. Unlike the previous sparse backfitting algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-13 Yan Li

Although some preconditioners are available for solving dense linear systems, there are still many matrices for which preconditioners are lacking, in particular in cases where the size of the matrix $N$ becomes very large. There remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Pieter Coulier , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

Calculating the log-determinant of a matrix is useful for statistical computations used in machine learning, such as generative learning which uses the log-determinant of the covariance matrix to calculate the log-likelihood of model…

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To precondition a large and sparse linear system, two direct methods for approximate factoring of the inverse are devised. The algorithms are fully parallelizable and appear to be more robust than the iterative methods suggested for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Mikko Byckling , Marko Huhtanen

This paper studies the problem of estimating a large coefficient matrix in a multiple response linear regression model when the coefficient matrix could be both of low rank and sparse in the sense that most nonzero entries concentrate on a…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-18 Zhuang Ma , Zongming Ma , Tingni Sun

Computation of the large sparse matrix exponential has been an important topic in many fields, such as network and finite-element analysis. The existing scaling and squaring algorithm (SSA) is not suitable for the computation of the large…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Feng Wu , Kailing Zhang , Li Zhu , Jiayao Hu

We study the problem of estimating precision matrices in Gaussian distributions that are multivariate totally positive of order two ($\mathrm{MTP}_2$). The precision matrix in such a distribution is an M-matrix. This problem can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jian-Feng Cai , José Vinícius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar , Jiaxi Ying

The computation of the Log-determinant of large, sparse, symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices is essential in many scientific computational fields such as numerical linear algebra and machine learning. In low dimensions, Cholesky is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Verlon Roel Mbingui , Antoine Tambue , Issa Karambal

Efficient solutions of large-scale, ill-conditioned and indefinite algebraic equations are ubiquitously needed in numerous computational fields, including multiphysics simulations, machine learning, and data science. Because of their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiaoye Sherry Li , Yang Liu

Matrix determinants play an important role in data analysis, in particular when Gaussian processes are involved. Due to currently exploding data volumes, linear operations - matrices - acting on the data are often not accessible directly…

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We present an efficient numerical method for computing Hamiltonian matrix elements between non-orthogonal Slater determinants, focusing on the most time-consuming component of the calculation that involves a sparse array. In the usual case…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-22 Yutaka Utsuno , Noritaka Shimizu , Takaharu Otsuka , Takashi Abe

This article presents a new method to compute matrices from numerical simulations based on the ideas of sparse sampling and compressed sensing. The method is useful for problems where the determination of the entries of a matrix constitutes…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 Jacob N. Sanders , Xavier Andrade , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We propose a stochastic variance reduced optimization algorithm for solving sparse learning problems with cardinality constraints. Sufficient conditions are provided, under which the proposed algorithm enjoys strong linear convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Xingguo Li , Raman Arora , Han Liu , Jarvis Haupt , Tuo Zhao

Precision matrix is of significant importance in a wide range of applications in multivariate analysis. This paper considers adaptive minimax estimation of sparse precision matrices in the high dimensional setting. Optimal rates of…

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