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LSQR and LSMR are iterative methods, based on the Golub-Kahan bidiagonalization algorithm, widely used for large-scale linear least squares problems. FLSQR and FLSMR are flexible variants of LSQR and LSMR, respectively, based on a flexible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Alberto Bucci , Silvia Gazzola , Leonardo Robol

This paper presents a new algorithmic framework for computing sparse solutions to large-scale linear discrete ill-posed problems. The approach is motivated by recent perspectives on iteratively reweighted norm schemes, viewed through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Lucas Onisk , Malena Sabaté Landman

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for analysis-based sparsity reconstruction. It can solve the generalized problem by structured sparsity regularization with an orthogonal basis and total variation regularization. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Chen Chen , Junzhou Huang , Lei He , Hongsheng Li

This work provides simple algorithms for multi-class (and multi-label) prediction in settings where both the number of examples n and the data dimension d are relatively large. These robust and parameter free algorithms are essentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Alekh Agarwal , Sham M. Kakade , Nikos Karampatziakis , Le Song , Gregory Valiant

Probabilistic linear solvers (PLSs) return probability distributions that quantify uncertainty due to limited computation in the solution of linear systems. The literature has traditionally distinguished between Bayesian PLSs, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Disha Hegde , Marvin Pförtner , Jon Cockayne

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,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yonghan Sun , Hou-Duo Qi , Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

We study randomized sketching methods for approximately solving least-squares problem with a general convex constraint. The quality of a least-squares approximation can be assessed in different ways: either in terms of the value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

We address the numerical solution of minimal norm residuals of {\it nonlinear} equations in finite dimensions. We take inspiration from the problem of finding a sparse vector solution by using greedy algorithms based on iterative residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Juliane Sigl

Recent development on mixed precision techniques has largely enhanced the performance of various linear algebra solvers, one of which being the solver for the least squares problem $\min_{x}\lVert b-Ax\rVert_{2}$. By transforming least…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Bowen Gao , Yuxin Ma , Meiyue Shao

In this paper, we study the \emph{sparse integer least squares problem} (SILS), an NP-hard variant of least squares with sparse $\{0, \pm 1\}$-vectors. We propose an $\ell_1$-based SDP relaxation, and a randomized algorithm for SILS, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Alberto Del Pia , Dekun Zhou

Various approaches to iterative refinement (IR) for least-squares problems have been proposed in the literature and it may not be clear which approach is suitable for a given problem. We consider three approaches to IR for least-squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Erin Carson , Ieva Daužickaitė

We propose a randomized first order optimization algorithm Gradient Projection Iterative Sketch (GPIS) and an accelerated variant for efficiently solving large scale constrained Least Squares (LS). We provide theoretical convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Junqi Tang , Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike Davies

Solving sparse linear systems from discretized PDEs is challenging. Direct solvers have in many cases quadratic complexity (depending on geometry), while iterative solvers require problem dependent preconditioners to be robust and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Kai Yang , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

Instead of minimizing the sum of all $n$ squared residuals as the classical least squares (LS) does, Rousseeuw (1984) proposed to minimize the sum of $h$ ($n/2 \leq h < n$) smallest squared residuals, the resulting estimator is called least…

Computation · Statistics 2022-10-13 Yijun Zuo

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

In this paper, we study the problem of multipath channel estimation for direct sequence spread spectrum signals. To resolve multipath components arriving within a short interval, we propose a new algorithm called the least-squares based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Wooseok Nam , Seung-Hyun Kong

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

This paper focuses on solving large-scale, ill-conditioned, and overdetermined sparse least squares problems that arise from numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), mainly from the random feature method. To address these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Jingrun Chen , Longze Tan

Randomized iterative algorithms have attracted much attention in recent years because they can approximately solve large-scale linear systems of equations without accessing the entire coefficient matrix. In this paper, we propose two novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Kui Du , Xiao-Hui Sun

We describe a parallel iterative least squares solver named \texttt{LSRN} that is based on random normal projection. \texttt{LSRN} computes the min-length solution to $\min_{x \in \mathbb{R}^n} \|A x - b\|_2$, where $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m…

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