Related papers: Matrix best approximation in the spectral norm
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When approximating elliptic problems by using specialized approximation techniques, we obtain large structured matrices whose analysis provides information on the stability of the method. Here we provide spectral and norm estimates for…
Suppose that the matrix equation $AXB=C$ with unknown matrix $X$ is given, where $A$, $B$, and $C$\ are known matrices of suitable sizes. The matrix nearness problem is considered over the general and least squares solutions of the matrix…
We present a spectral analysis for matrix scaling and operator scaling. We prove that if the input matrix or operator has a spectral gap, then a natural gradient flow has linear convergence. This implies that a simple gradient descent…
The main goal of this thesis is to show the crucial role that plays the symbol in analysing the spectrum the sequence of matrices resulting from PDE approximation and in designing a fast method to solve the associated linear problem. In the…
The subspace approximation problem Subspace($k$,$p$) asks for a $k$-dimensional linear subspace that fits a given set of points optimally, where the error for fitting is a generalization of the least squares fit and uses the $\ell_{p}$ norm…
The low-rank matrix completion problem can be succinctly stated as follows: given a subset of the entries of a matrix, find a low-rank matrix consistent with the observations. While several low-complexity algorithms for matrix completion…
We establish new results concerning projectors on max-plus spaces, as well as separating half-spaces, and derive an explicit formula for the distance in Hilbert's projective metric between a point and a half-space over the max-plus…
Mixture models, such as Gaussian mixture models, are widely used in machine learning to represent complex data distributions. A key challenge, especially in high-dimensional settings, is to determine the mixture order and estimate the…
We present a distributed asynchronous algorithm for approximating a single component of the solution to a system of linear equations $Ax = b$, where $A$ is a positive definite real matrix, and $b \in \mathbb{R}^n$. This is equivalent to…
The decomposition or approximation of a linear operator on a matrix space as a sum of Kronecker products plays an important role in matrix equations and low-rank modeling. The approximation problem in Frobenius norm admits a well-known…
We give an efficient algorithm which can obtain a relative error approximation to the spectral norm of a matrix, combining the power iteration method with some techniques from matrix reconstruction which use random sampling.
Binary quadratic programming problems have attracted much attention in the last few decades due to their potential applications. This type of problems are NP-hard in general, and still considered a challenge in the design of efficient…
We initiate the study of approximating the largest induced expander in a given graph $G$. Given a $\Delta$-regular graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, the goal is to find the set with the largest induced expansion of size at least $\delta \cdot…
Lasserre's moment-SOS hierarchy consists of approximating instances of the generalized moment problem (GMP) with moment relaxations and sums-of-squares (SOS) strenghtenings that boil down to convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problems.…