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We classify a family of matrices of shift operators that can be factorised in a computationally tractable manner with the Cholesky algorithm. Such matrices arise in the linear quadratic regulator problem, and related areas. We use the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Julia Adlercreutz , Richard Pates

In this paper, we introduce an efficient algorithm for column subset selection that combines the column-pivoted QR factorization with sparse subspace embeddings. The proposed method, SE-QRSC, is particularly effective for wide matrices with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Israa Fakih , Laura Grigori

Given a fixed matrix, the problem of column subset selection requests a column submatrix that has favorable spectral properties. Most research from the algorithms and numerical linear algebra communities focuses on a variant called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Joel A. Tropp

We consider the problem of computing a QR (or QZ) decomposition of a real, dense, tall and very skinny matrix. That is, the number of columns is tiny compared to the number of rows, rendering most computations completely or partially…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jonas Thies , Melven Röhrig-Zöllner

Incomplete factorizations have long been popular general-purpose algebraic preconditioners for solving large sparse linear systems of equations. Guaranteeing the factorization is breakdown free while computing a high quality preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma

The Cholesky decomposition is a fundamental tool for solving linear systems with symmetric and positive definite matrices which are ubiquitous in linear algebra, optimization, and machine learning. Its numerical stability can be improved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Filip de Roos , Fabio Muratore

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

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 propose a very simple preprocessing algorithm for semidefinite programming. Our algorithm inspects the constraints of the problem, deletes redundant rows and columns in the constraints, and reduces the size of the variable matrix. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Preston Faulk , Gabor Pataki , Quoc Tran-Dinh

Nonnegative matrix factorization arises widely in machine learning and data analysis. In this paper, for a given factorization of rank r, we consider the sparse stochastic matrix factorization (SSMF) of decomposing a prescribed m-by-n…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Guiyun Xiao , Zheng-Jian Bai , Wai-Ki Ching

We introduce a new sparse sliced inverse regression estimator called Cholesky matrix penalization and its adaptive version for achieving sparsity in estimating the dimensions of the central subspace. The new estimators use the Cholesky…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-21 Linh Nghiem , Francis K. C. Hui , Samuel Mueller , A. H. Welsh

The Cholesky decomposition plays an important role in finding the inverse of the correlation matrices. As it is a fast and numerically stable for linear system solving, inversion, and factorization compared to singular valued decomposition…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Vanita Pawar , Krishna Naik Karamtot

Preconditioned stochastic optimization algorithms, exemplified by Shampoo, outperform first-order optimizers by offering theoretical convergence benefits and practical gains in large-scale neural network training. However, they incur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jingyang Li , Kuangyu Ding , Kim-Chuan Toh , Pan Zhou

A CUR approximation of a matrix $A$ is a particular type of low-rank approximation $A \approx C U R$, where $C$ and $R$ consist of columns and rows of $A$, respectively. One way to obtain such an approximation is to apply column subset…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Alice Cortinovis , Daniel Kressner

We present a matrix-factorization algorithm that scales to input matrices with both huge number of rows and columns. Learned factors may be sparse or dense and/or non-negative, which makes our algorithm suitable for dictionary learning,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Arthur Mensch , Julien Mairal , Bertrand Thirion , Gael Varoquaux

In this paper, we introduce a novel estimator for vision-aided inertial navigation systems (VINS), the Preconditioned Cholesky-based Square Root Information Filter (PC-SRIF). When solving linear systems, employing Cholesky decomposition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Tong Ke , Parth Agrawal , Yun Zhang , Weikun Zhen , Chao X. Guo , Toby Sharp , Ryan C. Dutoit

The sparse Cholesky parametrization of the inverse covariance matrix can be interpreted as a Gaussian Bayesian network; however its counterpart, the covariance Cholesky factor, has received, with few notable exceptions, little attention so…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-03 Irene Córdoba , Concha Bielza , Pedro Larrañaga , Gherardo Varando

Many kernel methods suffer from high time and space complexities and are thus prohibitive in big-data applications. To tackle the computational challenge, the Nystr\"om method has been extensively used to reduce time and space complexities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Shusen Wang , Zhihua Zhang

Our interest lies in the robust and efficient solution of large sparse linear least-squares problems. In recent years, hardware developments have led to a surge in interest in exploiting mixed precision arithmetic within numerical linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma

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