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In this paper we present a novel algorithm developed for computing the QR factorisation of extremely ill-conditioned tall-and-skinny matrices on distributed memory systems. The algorithm is based on the communication-avoiding CholeskyQR2…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Nenad Mijić , Abhiram Kaushik , Davor Davidović

Despite the growing availability of large datasets, causal structure learning remains computationally prohibitive at scale. We revisit sparsest-permutation learning for linear structural equation models and show that exact Cholesky…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Sunmin Oh , Sang-Yun Oh , Gunwoong Park

The problem of structured matrix estimation has been studied mostly under strong noise dependence assumptions. This paper considers a general framework of noisy low-rank-plus-sparse matrix recovery, where the noise matrix may come from any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Jinhang Chai , Jianqing Fan

In recent years, there has been widespread adoption of machine learning-based approaches to automate the solving of partial differential equations (PDEs). Among these approaches, Gaussian processes (GPs) and kernel methods have garnered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Yifan Chen , Houman Owhadi , Florian Schäfer

We introduce the Structured Sparsity Specification (S$^3$), an algebraic framework for defining, composing, and implementing structured sparse patterns. S$^3$ specifies sparsity through three components: a View that reshapes the tensor via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ayoub Ghriss

We study the sparse non-negative least squares (S-NNLS) problem. S-NNLS occurs naturally in a wide variety of applications where an unknown, non-negative quantity must be recovered from linear measurements. We present a unified framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-03 Igor Fedorov , Alican Nalci , Ritwik Giri , Bhaskar D. Rao , Truong Q. Nguyen , Harinath Garudadri

We present a fast sparse matrix permutation algorithm tailored to linear systems arising from triangle meshes. Our approach produces nested-dissection-style permutations while significantly reducing permutation runtime overhead. Rather than…

Dense kernel matrices resulting from pairwise evaluations of a kernel function arise naturally in machine learning and statistics. Previous work in constructing sparse approximate inverse Cholesky factors of such matrices by minimizing…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-12 Stephen Huan , Joseph Guinness , Matthias Katzfuss , Houman Owhadi , Florian Schäfer

Sparse coding--that is, modelling data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements--is widely used in machine learning, neuroscience, signal processing, and statistics. This paper focuses on the large-scale matrix factorization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-02-11 Julien Mairal , Francis Bach , Jean Ponce , Guillermo Sapiro

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

Square matrices appear in many machine learning problems and models. Optimization over a large square matrix is expensive in memory and in time. Therefore an economic approximation is needed. Conventional approximation approaches factorize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ruslan Khalitov , Tong Yu , Lei Cheng , Zhirong Yang

Prior to computing the Cholesky factorization of a sparse, symmetric positive definite matrix, a reordering of the rows and columns is computed so as to reduce both the number of fill elements in Cholesky factor and the number of arithmetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Robert Luce , Esmond Ng

Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) constructs an extremely sparse probabilistic model with very competitive generalization. However, SBL needs to invert a big covariance matrix with complexity $O(M^3)$ (M: feature size) for updating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jiahua Luo , Chi-Man Wong , Chi-Man Vong

CholeskyQR is a simple and fast QR decomposition via Cholesky decomposition, while it has been considered highly sensitive to the condition number. In this paper, we provide a randomized preconditioner framework for CholeskyQR algorithm.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Yuwei Fan , Yixiao Guo , Ting Lin

Estimation of large sparse covariance matrices is of great importance for statistical analysis, especially in the high-dimensional settings. The traditional approach such as the sample covariance matrix performs poorly due to the high…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Xiaoning Kang , Xinwei Deng

A new algorithm to approximate Hermitian matrices by positive semidefinite Hermitian matrices based on modified Cholesky decompositions is presented. In contrast to existing algorithms, this algorithm allows to specify bounds on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Joscha Reimer

Sparse matrices, as prevalent primitive of various scientific computing algorithms, persist as a bottleneck in processing. A skew-symmetric matrix flips signs of symmetric pairs in a symmetric matrix. Our work, Parallel 3-Way Banded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Selin Yildirim , Murat Manguoglu

This paper examines a general class of noisy matrix completion tasks where the goal is to estimate a matrix from observations obtained at a subset of its entries, each of which is subject to random noise or corruption. Our specific focus is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-18 Akshay Soni , Swayambhoo Jain , Jarvis Haupt , Stefano Gonella

We give a self-contained randomized algorithm based on shifted inverse iteration which provably computes the eigenvalues of an arbitrary matrix $M\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ up to backward error $\delta\|M\|$ in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Jess Banks , Jorge Garza-Vargas , Nikhil Srivastava

Learned Sparse Retrieval (LSR) is an effective IR approach that exploits pre-trained language models for encoding text into a learned bag of words. Several efforts in the literature have shown that sparsity is key to enabling a good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Franco Maria Nardini , Thong Nguyen , Cosimo Rulli , Rossano Venturini , Andrew Yates