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The massive scale of pretrained models has made efficient compression essential for practical deployment. Low-rank decomposition based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) provides a principled approach for model reduction, but its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki

We develop a novel randomized conjugate gradient least squares (RCGLS) method for solving least-squares problems, in which iterative sketching is employed at each step to reduce the dimension and hence the computational cost. In particular,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yun Zeng , Jian-Feng Cai , Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

In this paper we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from linear measurements. Our algorithm, which we call Procrustes Flow, starts from an initial estimate obtained by a thresholding scheme followed by gradient descent on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Stephen Tu , Ross Boczar , Max Simchowitz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Benjamin Recht

Randomly pivoted Cholesky (RPCholesky) is an algorithm for constructing a low-rank approximation of a positive-semidefinite matrix using a small number of columns. This paper develops an accelerated version of RPCholesky that employs block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Ethan N. Epperly , Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber

Reinforcement learning (RL) problems are fundamental in online decision-making and have been instrumental in finding an optimal policy for Markov decision processes (MDPs). Function approximations are usually deployed to handle large or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jiashuo Jiang , Yiming Zong , Yinyu Ye

We consider the problem of computing tractable approximations of time-dependent d x d large positive semi-definite (PSD) matrices defined as solutions of a matrix differential equation. We propose to use "low-rank plus diagonal" PSD…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Silvère Bonnabel , Marc Lambert , Francis Bach

Random projections (RP) are a popular tool for reducing dimensionality while preserving local geometry. In many applications the data set to be projected is given to us in advance, yet the current RP techniques do not make use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Nick Ryder , Zohar Karnin , Edo Liberty

Randomized sampling has recently been demonstrated to be an efficient technique for computing approximate low-rank factorizations of matrices for which fast methods for computing matrix vector products are available. This paper describes an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

For many applications in signal processing and machine learning, we are tasked with minimizing a large sum of convex functions subject to a large number of convex constraints. In this paper, we devise a new random projection method (RPM) to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Zhichun Yang , Fu-quan Xia , Kai Tu , Man-Chung Yue

The state of the art in approximation algorithms for facility location problems are complicated combinations of various techniques. In particular, the currently best 1.488-approximation algorithm for the uncapacitated facility location…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Jaroslaw Byrka , Shanfei Li , Bartosz Rybicki

Many data analysis applications deal with large matrices and involve approximating the matrix using a small number of ``components.'' Typically, these components are linear combinations of the rows and columns of the matrix, and are thus…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-08-29 Petros Drineas , Michael W. Mahoney , S. Muthukrishnan

We propose new approximate alternating projection methods, based on randomized sketching, for the low-rank nonnegative matrix approximation problem: find a low-rank approximation of a nonnegative matrix that is nonnegative, but whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Sergey A. Matveev , Stanislav Budzinskiy

The linear combination of unitaries (LCU) is a fundamental quantum algorithm primitive that embeds non-unitary operators via post-selection on an ancilla register. In standard LCU, only the $|0\dots0\rangle$ ancilla outcome is retained; the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ammar Daskin

We consider the problem of approximating a given matrix by a low-rank matrix so as to minimize the entrywise $\ell_p$-approximation error, for any $p \geq 1$; the case $p = 2$ is the classical SVD problem. We obtain the first provably good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Flavio Chierichetti , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Ravi Kumar , Silvio Lattanzi , Rina Panigrahy , David P. Woodruff

In this paper, we focus on developing randomized algorithms for the computation of low multilinear rank approximations of tensors based on the random projection and the singular value decomposition. Following the theory of the singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Maolin Che , Yimin Wei , Hong Yan

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

Low-rank representation~(LRR) has been a significant method for segmenting data that are generated from a union of subspaces. It is, however, known that solving the LRR program is challenging in terms of time complexity and memory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Jie Shen , Ping Li , Huan Xu

1. A standard Gaussian random matrix has full rank with probability 1 and is well-conditioned with a probability quite close to 1 and converging to 1 fast as the matrix deviates from square shape and becomes more rectangular. 2. If we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Victor Y. Pan , Liang Zhao

In this paper, we present a novel low rank representation (LRR) algorithm for data lying on the manifold of square root densities. Unlike traditional LRR methods which rely on the assumption that the data points are vectors in the Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Yifan Fu , Junbin Gao , Xia Hong , David Tien

Random Utility Models (RUMs), which subsume Plackett-Luce model (PL) as a special case, are among the most popular models for preference learning. In this paper, we consider RUMs with features and their mixtures, where each alternative has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Zhibing Zhao , Ao Liu , Lirong Xia