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Low-rank factorization is a popular model compression technique that minimizes the error $\delta$ between approximated and original weight matrices. Despite achieving performances close to the original models when $\delta$ is optimized, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Boyang Zhang , Daning Cheng , Yunquan Zhang , Fangming Liu , Jiake Tian

We propose to compute a sparse approximate inverse Cholesky factor $L$ of a dense covariance matrix $\Theta$ by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the Gaussian distributions $\mathcal{N}(0, \Theta)$ and $\mathcal{N}(0,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Florian Schäfer , Matthias Katzfuss , Houman Owhadi

Motivated by Tucker tensor decomposition, this paper imposes low-rank structures to the column and row spaces of coefficient matrices in a multivariate infinite-order vector autoregression (VAR), which leads to a supervised factor model…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-04 Feiqing Huang , Kexin Lu , Guodong Li

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

We present and analyze an efficient implementation of an iteratively reweighted least squares algorithm for recovering a matrix from a small number of linear measurements. The algorithm is designed for the simultaneous promotion of both a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Massimo Fornasier , Holger Rauhut , Rachel Ward

We consider the problem of estimating high-dimensional covariance matrices of a particular structure, which is a summation of low rank and sparse matrices. This covariance structure has a wide range of applications including factor analysis…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-10-17 Lin Zhang , Abhra Sarkar , Bani K. Mallick

In this paper, we propose a novel variable selection approach in the framework of multivariate linear models taking into account the dependence that may exist between the responses. It consists in estimating beforehand the covariance matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Marie Perrot-Dockès , Céline Lévy-Leduc , Laure Sansonnet , Julien Chiquet

The paper proposes a new covariance estimator for large covariance matrices when the variables have a natural ordering. Using the Cholesky decomposition of the inverse, we impose a banded structure on the Cholesky factor, and select the…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 Elizaveta Levina , Adam Rothman , Ji Zhu

Low-rank representation learning has emerged as a powerful tool for recovering missing values in power load data due to its ability to exploit the inherent low-dimensional structures of spatiotemporal measurements. Among various techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yan Xia , Hao Feng , Hongwei Sun , Junjie Wang , Qicong Hu

Large-scale matrix data has been widely discovered and continuously studied in various fields recently. Considering the multi-level factor structure and utilizing the matrix structure, we propose a multilevel matrix factor model with both…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-24 Yuteng Zhang , Yongchang Hui , Junrong Song , Shurong Zheng

In this paper, we consider the nonstationary matrix-valued time series with common stochastic trends. Unlike the traditional factor analysis which flattens matrix observations into vectors, we adopt a matrix factor model in order to fully…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-08-25 Degui Li , Yayi Yan , Qiwei Yao

We propose a generative model for robust tensor factorization in the presence of both missing data and outliers. The objective is to explicitly infer the underlying low-CP-rank tensor capturing the global information and a sparse tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Qibin Zhao , Guoxu Zhou , Liqing Zhang , Andrzej Cichocki , Shun-ichi Amari

Estimating large covariance matrices has been a longstanding important problem in many applications and has attracted increased attention over several decades. This paper deals with two methods based on pre-existing works to impose sparsity…

Applications · Statistics 2017-12-06 Ahmad W. Bitar , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez , Loong-Fah Cheong

Finding an unconstrained and statistically interpretable reparameterization of a covariance matrix is still an open problem in statistics. Its solution is of central importance in covariance estimation, particularly in the recent…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-02-09 Mohsen Pourahmadi

We present a geometric multilevel optimization approach that smoothly incorporates box constraints. Given a box constrained optimization problem, we consider a hierarchy of models with varying discretization levels. Finer models are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Sebastian Müller , Stefania Petra , Matthias Zisler

Last decade witnesses significant methodological and theoretical advances in estimating large precision matrices. In particular, there are scientific applications such as longitudinal data, meteorology and spectroscopy in which the ordering…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Yu Liu , Zhao Ren

This paper focuses on exploring the sparsity of the inverse covariance matrix $\bSigma^{-1}$, or the precision matrix. We form blocks of parameters based on each off-diagonal band of the Cholesky factor from its modified Cholesky…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-05-27 Clifford Lam

We propose a model to forecast large realized covariance matrices of returns, applying it to the constituents of the S\&P 500 daily. To address the curse of dimensionality, we decompose the return covariance matrix using standard firm-level…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-29 Rafael Alves , Diego S. de Brito , Marcelo C. Medeiros , Ruy M. Ribeiro

Tile low rank representations of dense matrices partition them into blocks of roughly uniform size, where each off-diagonal tile is compressed and stored as its own low rank factorization. They offer an attractive representation for many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Wajih Boukaram , Stefano Zampini , George Turkiyyah , David Keyes

Models in which the covariance matrix has the structure of a sparse matrix plus a low rank perturbation are ubiquitous in data science applications. It is often desirable for algorithms to take advantage of such structures, avoiding costly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Shany Shumeli , Petros Drineas , Haim Avron