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Inversion of sparse matrices with standard direct solve schemes is robust, but computationally expensive. Iterative solvers, on the other hand, demonstrate better scalability; but, need to be used with an appropriate preconditioner (e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Hadi Pouransari , Pieter Coulier , Eric Darve

Sparse linear regression is the well-studied inference problem where one is given a design matrix $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{M\times N}$ and a response vector $\mathbf{b} \in \mathbb{R}^M$, and the goal is to find a solution $\mathbf{x}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Aparna Gupte , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

For constrained, not necessarily monotone submodular maximization, all known approximation algorithms with ratio greater than $1/e$ require continuous ideas, such as queries to the multilinear extension of a submodular function and its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yixin Chen , Ankur Nath , Chunli Peng , Alan Kuhnle

Efficient algorithms for the sparse solution of under-determined linear systems $Ax = b$ are known for matrices $A$ satisfying suitable assumptions like the restricted isometry property (RIP). Without such assumptions little is known and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 G. Welper

It is well known that sparse approximation problem is \textsf{NP}-hard under general dictionaries. Several algorithms have been devised and analyzed in the past decade under various assumptions on the \emph{coherence} $\mu$ of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Ali Çivril

In this paper, we show a way to exploit sparsity in the problem data in a primal-dual potential reduction method for solving a class of semidefinite programs. When the problem data is sparse, the dual variable is also sparse, but the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Gun Srijuntongsiri , Stephen A. Vavasis

We study the problem of maximizing a non-negative monotone submodular objective $f$ subject to the intersection of $k$ arbitrary matroid constraints. The natural greedy algorithm guarantees $(k+1)$-approximation for this problem, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Moran Feldman , Justin Ward

One specific subset of quantum algorithms is Grovers Ordered Search Problem (OSP), the quantum counterpart of the classical binary search algorithm, which utilizes oracle functions to produce a specified value within an ordered database.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Jupinder Parmar , Saarim Rahman , Jesse Thiara

We introduce and compare new compression approaches to obtain regularized solutions of large linear systems which are commonly encountered in large scale inverse problems. We first describe how to approximate matrix vector operations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Sergey Voronin , Dylan Mikesell , Guust Nolet

We consider the well-studied Sparse Fourier transform problem, where one aims to quickly recover an approximately Fourier $k$-sparse vector $\widehat{x} \in \mathbb{C}^{n^d}$ from observing its time domain representation $x$. In the exact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Karl Bringmann , Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Vasileios Nakos , Amir Yagudin , Amir Zandieh

The null space condition for $\ell_1$ minimization in compressed sensing is a necessary and sufficient condition on the sensing matrices under which a sparse signal can be uniquely recovered from the observation data via $\ell_1$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Myung Cho , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Weiyu Xu

Sparse matrix factorization is a popular tool to obtain interpretable data decompositions, which are also effective to perform data completion or denoising. Its applicability to large datasets has been addressed with online and randomized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Arthur Mensch , Julien Mairal , Bertrand Thirion , Gaël Varoquaux

We study an ill-posed linear inverse problem, where a binary sequence will be reproduced using a sparce matrix. According to the previous study, this model can theoretically provide an optimal compression scheme for an arbitrary distortion…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Tatsuto Murayama

We investigate the performance of a deterministic GREEDY algorithm for the problem of maximizing functions under a partition matroid constraint. We consider non-monotone submodular functions and monotone subadditive functions. Even though…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Frank Neumann , Francesco Quinzan , Ralf Rothenberger

Generalized inverses play a fundamental role in numerical linear algebra, particularly when matrices are rectangular, singular, or rank deficient. Even when the input matrix is sparse, generalized inverses such as the M-P pseudoinverse are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Ananias Machado , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee

We investigate the problem of factorizing a matrix into several sparse matrices and propose an algorithm for this under randomness and sparsity assumptions. This problem can be viewed as a simplification of the deep learning problem where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Behnam Neyshabur , Rina Panigrahy

We consider the problem of optimally compressing and caching data across a communication network. Given the data generated at edge nodes and a routing path, our goal is to determine the optimal data compression ratios and caching decisions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jian Li , Faheem Zafari , Don Towsley , Kin K. Leung , Ananthram Swami

Cost-efficient compressive sensing is challenging when facing large-scale data, {\em i.e.}, data with large sizes. Conventional compressive sensing methods for large-scale data will suffer from low computational efficiency and massive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Sung-Hsien Hsieh , Chun-Shien Lu , Soo-Chang Pei

Rearranging the rows or columns of a sparse matrix using an appropriate ordering can significantly reduce fill-ins, i.e., new nonzeros introduced during matrix factorization, decreasing memory usage and runtime. However, finding an ordering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziwei Li , Tao Yuan , Fangfang Liu , Shuzi Niu , Huiyuan Li , Wenjia Wu

Consider the empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem, which is stated as follows. Let $K_1, \dots, K_m$ be compact convex sets with $K_i \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{n_i}$ for $i \in [m]$, $n = \sum_{i=1}^m n_i$, and $n_i\le C_K$ for some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Colin Tang , Albert Weng , Junzhao Yang