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We present parallel and sequential dense QR factorization algorithms that are both optimal (up to polylogarithmic factors) in the amount of communication they perform, and just as stable as Householder QR. Our first algorithm, Tall Skinny…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2008-08-29 James Demmel , Laura Grigori , Mark Hoemmen , Julien Langou

This paper studies a regularized matrix tri-factorization \(A\approx PDQ\), where \(P\) and \(Q\) are side factors and \(D\) is a central core whose conditioning can be explicitly regularized or constrained. The formulation is a structured…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Ronald Katende

Large kernel systems are prone to be ill-conditioned. Pivoted Cholesky decomposition (PCD) render a stable and efficient solution to the systems without a perturbation of regularization. This paper proposes a new PCD algorithm by tuning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Dishi Liu , Hermann G. Matthies

We introduce a randomized algorithm, namely RCHOL, to construct an approximate Cholesky factorization for a given Laplacian matrix (a.k.a., graph Laplacian). From a graph perspective, the exact Cholesky factorization introduces a clique in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Chao Chen , Tianyu Liang , George Biros

It is well known that matrices with low Hessenberg-structured displacement rank enjoy fast algorithms for certain matrix factorizations. We show how $n\times n$ principal finite sections of the Gram matrix for the orthogonal polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Karim Gumerov , Samantha Rigg , Richard Mikael Slevinsky

We present two novel, explicit representations of Cholesky factor of a nonsingular correlation matrix. The first representation uses semi-partial correlation coefficients as its entries. The second, uses an equivalent form of the square…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-27 Vered Madar

In this paper an approach for finding a sparse incomplete Cholesky factor through an incomplete orthogonal factorization with Givens rotations is discussed and applied to Gaussian Markov random fields (GMRFs). The incomplete Cholesky factor…

Computation · Statistics 2013-07-05 Xiangping Hu , Daniel Simpson , Håvard Rue

We present randomized algorithms for estimating the log-determinant of regularized symmetric positive semi-definite matrices. The algorithms access the matrix only through matrix vector products, and are based on the introduction of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Alice Cortinovis , Daniele Toni

Efficient and accurate low-rank approximations of multiple data sources are essential in the era of big data. The scaling of kernel-based learning algorithms to large datasets is limited by the O(n^2) computation and storage complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Martin Stražar , Tomaž Curk

Quantile-based randomized Kaczmarz (QRK) was recently introduced to efficiently solve sparsely corrupted linear systems $\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x}^*+\mathbf{\epsilon} = \mathbf{b}$ [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 43(2), 605-637], where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Jian-Feng Cai , Junren Chen , Anna Ma , Tong Wu

In this work, we develop a new fast algorithm, spaQR -- sparsified QR, for solving large, sparse linear systems. The key to our approach is using low-rank approximations to sparsify the separators in a Nested Dissection based Householder QR…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Eric Darve

Recovering low-rank and sparse matrices from incomplete or corrupted observations is an important problem in machine learning, statistics, bioinformatics, computer vision, as well as signal and image processing. In theory, this problem can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hanghang Tong , James Cheng , Hong Cheng

In this paper, we extend the work of Liesen et al. (2002), which analyzes how the condition number of an orthonormal matrix Q changes when a column is added ([Q, c]), particularly focusing on the perpendicularity of c to the span of Q.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Ali Lotfi , Julien Langou , Mohammad Meysami

Low-rank matrix approximations, such as the truncated singular value decomposition and the rank-revealing QR decomposition, play a central role in data analysis and scientific computing. This work surveys and extends recent research which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Nathan Halko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson , Joel A. Tropp

This paper investigates preconditioned conjugate gradient techniques for solving kernel ridge regression (KRR) problems with a medium to large number of data points ($10^4 \leq N \leq 10^7$), and it describes two methods with the strongest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Mateo Díaz , Ethan N. Epperly , Zachary Frangella , Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber

This paper highlights a formal connection between two families of widely used matrix factorization algorithms in numerical linear algebra. One family consists of the Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm and its variants for computing the Hermitian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Isabel Detherage , Rikhav Shah

Smoothness of the subdiagonals of the Cholesky factor of large covariance matrices is closely related to the degrees of nonstationarity of autoregressive models for time series and longitudinal data. Heuristically, one expects for a nearly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Aramayis Dallakyan , Mohsen Pourahmadi

In this work, we develop a fast hierarchical solver for solving large, sparse least squares problems. We build upon the algorithm, spaQR (sparsified QR), that was developed by the authors to solve large sparse linear systems. Our algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Eric Darve

We examine a special case of the multilevel factor model, with covariance given by multilevel low rank (MLR) matrix~\cite{parshakova2023factor}. We develop a novel, fast implementation of the expectation-maximization algorithm, tailored for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Tetiana Parshakova , Trevor Hastie , Stephen Boyd

Quantile Regression (QR) provides a way to approximate a single conditional quantile. To have a more informative description of the conditional distribution, QR can be merged with deep learning techniques to simultaneously estimate multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Axel Brando , Joan Gimeno , Jose A. Rodríguez-Serrano , Jordi Vitrià