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Matrix trace estimation is ubiquitous in machine learning applications and has traditionally relied on Hutchinson's method, which requires $O(\log(1/\delta)/\epsilon^2)$ matrix-vector product queries to achieve a $(1 \pm…
We consider algorithms with access to an unknown matrix $M\in\mathbb{F}^{n \times d}$ via matrix-vector products, namely, the algorithm chooses vectors $\mathbf{v}^1, \ldots, \mathbf{v}^q$, and observes $M\mathbf{v}^1,\ldots,…
Provenance sketches, light-weight indexes that record what data is needed (is relevant) for answering a query, can significantly improve performance of important classes of queries (e.g., HAVING and top-k queries). Given a horizontal…
Randomized algorithms, such as randomized sketching or stochastic optimization, are a promising approach to ease the computational burden in analyzing large datasets. However, randomized algorithms also produce non-deterministic outputs,…
We initiate a systematic study of linear sketching over $\mathbb F_2$. For a given Boolean function $f \colon \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ a randomized $\mathbb F_2$-sketch is a distribution $\mathcal M$ over $d \times n$ matrices with elements…
For linear systems $Ax=b$ we develop iterative algorithms based on a sketch-and-project approach. By using judicious choices for the sketch, such as the history of residuals, we develop weighting strategies that enable short recursive…
We investigate iterative methods with randomized preconditioners for solving overdetermined least-squares problems, where the preconditioners are based on a random embedding of the data matrix. We consider two distinct approaches: the…
Let $X$ be a set of $n$ points of norm at most $1$ in the Euclidean space $R^k$, and suppose $\varepsilon>0$. An $\varepsilon$-distance sketch for $X$ is a data structure that, given any two points of $X$ enables one to recover the square…
The Count-Min sketch is an important and well-studied data summarization method. It allows one to estimate the count of any item in a stream using a small, fixed size data sketch. However, the accuracy of the sketch depends on…
Sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for speeding up problems in numerical linear algebra, such as regression. In the overconstrained regression problem, one is given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$, with $n \gg d$, as well as an $n…
We consider a method for approximate inference in hidden Markov models (HMMs). The method circumvents the need to evaluate conditional densities of observations given the hidden states. It may be considered an instance of Approximate…
This article focuses on drawing computationally-efficient predictive inference from Gaussian process (GP) regressions with a large number of features when the response is conditionally independent of the features given the projection to a…
We consider the following oblivious sketching problem: given $\epsilon \in (0,1/3)$ and $n \geq d/\epsilon^2$, design a distribution $\mathcal{D}$ over $\mathbb{R}^{k \times nd}$ and a function $f: \mathbb{R}^k \times \mathbb{R}^{nd}…
We consider the problem of sketching set valuation functions, defined as the expectation of a valuation function applied to independent random item values. For valuation functions that are monotone and either subadditive or submodular, and…
Recently, randomly mapping vectorial data to strings of discrete symbols (i.e., sketches) for fast and space-efficient similarity searches has become popular. Such random mapping is called similarity-preserving hashing and approximates a…
We reconsider randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices such as Laplacian and kernel matrices that arise in data analysis and machine learning applications. Our main results…
Computation of the trace of a matrix function plays an important role in many scientific computing applications, including applications in machine learning, computational physics (e.g., lattice quantum chromodynamics), network analysis and…
In this work, we study distributed sketching methods for large scale regression problems. We leverage multiple randomized sketches for reducing the problem dimensions as well as preserving privacy and improving straggler resilience in…
Thanks to its great potential in reducing both computational cost and memory requirements, combining sketching and Krylov subspace techniques has attracted a lot of attention in the recent literature on projection methods for linear…
Sketching is one of the most fundamental tools in large-scale machine learning. It enables runtime and memory saving via randomly compressing the original large problem into lower dimensions. In this paper, we propose a novel sketching…