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Motivated by recent developments in serverless systems for large-scale computation as well as improvements in scalable randomized matrix algorithms, we develop OverSketched Newton, a randomized Hessian-based optimization algorithm to solve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Vipul Gupta , Swanand Kadhe , Thomas Courtade , Michael W. Mahoney , Kannan Ramchandran

Modern data stream applications demand memory-efficient solutions for accurately tracking frequent items, such as heavy hitters and heavy changers, under strict resource constraints. Traditional sketches face inherent accuracy-memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zicang Xu , Yuxuan Tian , Yuhan Wu , Tong Yang

We propose a fast algorithm for computing the entire ridge regression regularization path in nearly linear time. Our method constructs a basis on which the solution of ridge regression can be computed instantly for any value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

We develop an algorithm for estimating the values of a vector x in R^n over a support S of size k from a randomized sparse binary linear sketch Ax of size O(k). Given Ax and S, we can recover x' with ||x' - x_S||_2 <= eps ||x - x_S||_2 with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-22 Eric Price

This paper argues that randomized linear sketching is a natural tool for on-the-fly compression of data matrices that arise from large-scale scientific simulations and data collection. The technical contribution consists in a new algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

Constrained least squares problems arise in many applications. Their memory and computation costs are expensive in practice involving high-dimensional input data. We employ the so-called "sketching" strategy to project the least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Ke Chen , Ruhui Jin

Sketches are probabilistic data structures that can provide approximate results within mathematically proven error bounds while using orders of magnitude less memory than traditional approaches. They are tailored for streaming data analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fatih Taşyaran , Kerem Yıldırır , Kamer Kaya , Mustafa Kemal Taş

Sparse linear algebra is a cornerstone of many scientific computing and machine learning applications. Python has become a popular choice for these applications due to its simplicity and ease of use. Yet high performance sparse kernels in…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Keshvi Tuteja , Gregor Olenik , Roman Mishchuk , Yu-Hsiang Tsai , Markus Götz , Achim Streit , Hartwig Anzt , Charlotte Debus

We present a new approach for computing compact sketches that can be used to approximate the inner product between pairs of high-dimensional vectors. Based on the Weighted MinHash algorithm, our approach admits strong accuracy guarantees…

We have formulated the problem of generating periodic dense paritcle packings as an optimization problem called the Adaptive Shrinking Cell (ASC) formulation [S. Torquato and Y. Jiao, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 80}, 041104 (2009)]. Because the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-15 Sal Torquato , Yang Jiao

Dynamic connectivity is a fundamental dynamic graph problem, and recent algorithmic breakthroughs on dynamic graph sketching have reshaped what is theoretically possible: by encoding the graph as per-vertex linear sketches, these algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Quinten De Man , Gilvir Gill , Michael A. Bender , Laxman Dhulipala , David Tench

The power of randomized algorithms in numerical methods have led to fast solutions which use the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) as a core routine. However, given the large data size of modern and the modest runtime of SVD, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Hui Han Chin , Paul Pu Liang

Among randomized numerical linear algebra strategies, so-called sketching procedures are emerging as effective reduction means to accelerate the computation of Krylov subspace methods for, e.g., the solution of linear systems, eigenvalue…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Davide Palitta , Marcel Schweitzer , Valeria Simoncini

We introduce a novel technique for ``lifting'' dimension lower bounds for linear sketches in the real-valued setting to dimension lower bounds for linear sketches with polynomially-bounded integer entries when the input is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Elena Gribelyuk , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Huacheng Yu , Samson Zhou

Motivated by the randomized sketch to solve a variety of problems in scientific computation, we improve both the maximal weighted residual Kaczmarz method and the randomized block average Kaczmarz method using two new randomized sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Haochen Jiang , Dongdong Liu , Xianping Wu , Xu Yang

The translation of linear algebra computations into efficient sequences of library calls is a non-trivial task that requires expertise in both linear algebra and high-performance computing. Almost all high-level languages and libraries for…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Henrik Barthels , Christos Psarras , Paolo Bientinesi

In this chapter, we describe the Parallel Sparse Computation Toolkit (PSCToolkit), a suite of libraries for solving large-scale linear algebra problems in an HPC environment. In particular, we focus on the tools provided for the solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone

With the increase in computational power for the available hardware, the demand for high-resolution data in computer graphics applications increases. Consequently, classical geometry processing techniques based on linear algebra solutions…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Filippo Maggioli , Daniele Baieri , Zorah Lähner , Simone Melzi

In this paper, we present resolvent4py, a parallel Python package for the analysis, model reduction and control of large-scale linear systems with millions or billions of degrees of freedom. This package provides the user with a friendly…

Many approaches to transform classification problems from non-linear to linear by feature transformation have been recently presented in the literature. These notably include sparse coding methods and deep neural networks. However, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Alessandro Montalto , Giovanni Tessitore , Roberto Prevete