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In an instance of the minimum eigenvalue problem, we are given a collection of $n$ vectors $v_1,\ldots, v_n \subset {\mathbb{R}^d}$, and the goal is to pick a subset $B\subseteq [n]$ of given vectors to maximize the minimum eigenvalue of…
We consider the eigenvalue problem $Ax = \lambda x$ where $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ and the eigenvalue is also real $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$. If we are given $A$, $\lambda$ and, additionally, the absolute value of the entries of $x$…
We propose a new technique for constructing low-rank approximations of matrices that arise in kernel methods for machine learning. Our approach pairs a novel automatically constructed analytic expansion of the underlying kernel function…
This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for finding the dominant generalized eigenvectors of a pair of symmetric matrices. Combining tools from approximation theory and convex optimization, we develop a simple scalable algorithm with…
We investigate an extension of classical empirical risk minimization, where the hypothesis space consists of a random subspace within a given Hilbert space. Specifically, we examine the Nystr\"om method where the subspaces are defined by a…
Kernel mean embeddings are a powerful tool to represent probability distributions over arbitrary spaces as single points in a Hilbert space. Yet, the cost of computing and storing such embeddings prohibits their direct use in large-scale…
The Kaczmarz and Gauss-Seidel methods aim to solve a linear $m \times n$ system $\boldsymbol{X} \boldsymbol{\beta} = \boldsymbol{y}$ by iteratively refining the solution estimate; the former uses random rows of $\boldsymbol{X}$ {to update…
In this paper, we propose a new trace finite element method for the {Laplace-Beltrami} eigenvalue problem. The method is proposed directly on a smooth manifold which is implicitly given by a level-set function and require high order…
This paper presents two novel algorithms for approximately projecting symmetric matrices onto the Positive Semidefinite (PSD) cone using Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (RNLA). Classical PSD projection methods rely on full-rank…
Tenfold improvements in computation speed can be brought to the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for Semidefinite Programming with virtually no decrease in robustness and provable convergence simply by projecting…
This paper studies the problem of finding an $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate solution to positive semidefinite programs. These are semidefinite programs in which all matrices in the constraints and objective are positive semidefinite and all…
We study the problem of finding the nearest $\Omega$-stable matrix to a certain matrix $A$, i.e., the nearest matrix with all its eigenvalues in a prescribed closed set $\Omega$. Distances are measured in the Frobenius norm. An important…
The standard approach for finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrix polynomials starts by embedding the coefficients of the polynomial into a matrix pencil, known as linearization. Building on the pioneering work of Nakatsukasa and…
Quantum phase estimation algorithm has been successfully adapted as a sub frame of many other algorithms applied to a wide variety of applications in different fields. However, the requirement of a good approximate eigenvector given as an…
We examine a method for solving an infinite-dimensional tensor eigenvalue problem $H x = \lambda x$, where the infinite-dimensional symmetric matrix $H$ exhibits a translational invariant structure. We provide a formulation of this type of…
In applications of linear algebra including nuclear physics and structural dynamics, there is a need to deal with uncertainty in the matrices. We focus on matrices that depend on a set of parameters $\omega$ and we are interested in the…
We consider the distance from a (square or rectangular) matrix pencil to the nearest matrix pencil in 2-norm that has a set of specified eigenvalues. We derive a singular value optimization characterization for this problem and illustrate…
For the generalized eigenvalue problem, a quotient function is devised for estimating eigenvalues in terms of an approximate eigenvector. This gives rise to an infinite family of quotients, all entirely arguable to be used in estimation.…
We study quantum algorithms for approximating Lasserre's hierarchy values for polynomial optimization. Let $f,g_1,\ldots,g_m$ be real polynomials in $n$ variables and $f^\star$ the infimum of $f$ over the semialgebraic set $S(g)=\{x:…
The randomized singular value decomposition (SVD) has become a popular approach to computing cheap, yet accurate, low-rank approximations to matrices due to its efficiency and strong theoretical guarantees. Recent work by Boull\'e and…