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48 results for stochastic sketch

We derive optimal statistical and computational complexity bounds for exp-concave stochastic minimization in terms of the effective dimension. For common eigendecay patterns of the population covariance matrix, this quantity is significantly smaller than the ambient dimension. Our results reveal interesting connections…

2018-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New method solves constrained stochastic optimization problems efficiently.

problem Online statistical inference of constrained stochastic nonlinear optimization problems.
method Stochastic Sequential Quadratic Programming (StoSQP) with iterative sketching solver.
result The rescaled primal-dual sequence converges to a mean-zero Gaussian distribution.

Sketching is more fundamental to human cognition than speech. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art in speech-related tasks but have not made significant development in generating stroke-based sketches a.k.a sketches in vector format. Though there are Variational Auto Encoders (VAEs) for genera…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Matrix sketching is a recently developed data compression technique. An input matrix A is efficiently approximated with a smaller matrix B, so that B preserves most of the properties of A up to some guaranteed approximation ratio. In so doing numerical operations on big data sets become faster. Sketching algorithms gen…

2019-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method uses matrix sketches for efficient graph clustering in dynamic environments.

problem Efficiently clustering large, dynamic graphs in distributed memory systems.
method Inspired by spectral clustering, the approach uses random dimension-reducing projections to derive matrix sketches.
result The method produces embeddings that yield performant clustering results in a fully-dynamic stochastic block model stream.

Sketching, a dimensionality reduction technique, has received much attention in the statistics community. In this paper, we study sketching in the context of Newton's method for solving finite-sum optimization problems in which the number of variables and data points are both large. We study two forms of sketching that…

2017-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops precise expressions for random projections for better machine learning tasks.

problem Improving the accuracy of dimensionality reduction in machine learning tasks.
method Exploits recent developments in spectral analysis of random matrices to derive accurate expressions for random projection matrices.
result Provides precise expressions that reflect the practical performance of sketching methods, including Gaussian and Rademacher sketches.

New method for online inference of constrained optimization problems.

problem Online inference of constrained stochastic optimization problems.
method Random scaling of Sketched Stochastic Sequential Quadratic Programming (SSQP).
result Asymptotically valid confidence intervals and matrix-free computation.

Sketching and stochastic gradient methods are arguably the most common techniques to derive efficient large scale learning algorithms. In this paper, we investigate their application in the context of nonparametric statistical learning. More precisely, we study the estimator defined by stochastic gradient with mini bat…

2018-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Sketch-BERT learns vector sketches using BERT-like self-supervised learning.

problem Lack of effective vector sketch representation for recognition and retrieval tasks.
method Generalized BERT to sketch domain with novel embedding networks and self-supervised sketch gestalt learning.
result Improved performance on sketch recognition, retrieval, and gestalt tasks.

This note develops a stochastic model of asset volatility. The volatility obeys a continuous-time autoregressive equation. Conditions under which the process is asymptotically stationary and possesses long memory are characterised. Connections with the class of ARCH(\infty) processes are sketched.

2012-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a mechanism to compute a sketch (succinct summary) of how a complex modular deep network processes its inputs. The sketch summarizes essential information about the inputs and outputs of the network and can be used to quickly identify key components and summary statistics of the inputs. Furthermore, the sket…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Localized sketching improves matrix multiplication and ridge regression complexity.

problem Efficiently approximate matrix multiplication and ridge regression with limited data availability.
method Localized sketching matrices for block diagonal structure, reducing sample complexity.
result Localized sketching achieves sample complexity matching global sketching methods.

We introduce a new sub-linear space sketch---the Weight-Median Sketch---for learning compressed linear classifiers over data streams while supporting the efficient recovery of large-magnitude weights in the model. This enables memory-limited execution of several statistical analyses over streams, including online featu…

2017-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper sharpens the analysis of sketch-and-project methods using randomized singular value decomposition.

problem Improving convergence rates of sketch-and-project methods for solving linear systems and non-linear optimization problems.
method Developing a theoretical framework and new spectral bounds for the expected sketched projection matrix.
result The convergence rate improves linearly with sketch size and even faster with certain spectral decays.

New method reduces linear regret in high-dimensional bandit problems.

problem Heavy spectral tails in streaming matrices lead to linear regret in sketch-based linear bandits.
method Dyadic Block Sketching, a multi-scale matrix sketching approach.
result Achieves sublinear regret bounds without prior knowledge of streaming matrix properties.

New guarantees for asymmetric sketching in compressive learning.

problem Statistical guarantees for compressive learning with asymmetric feature maps.
method Proves existing guarantees carry over to asymmetric scheme with LPD property, applies to quantized sketches.
result Existing statistical guarantees for compressive learning extend to asymmetric schemes with controlled error.

Spectral clustering has been one of the widely used methods for community detection in networks. However, large-scale networks bring computational challenges to the eigenvalue decomposition therein. In this paper, we study the spectral clustering using randomized sketching algorithms from a statistical perspective, whe…

2020-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New analysis proves sketching operators' RIP guarantees for mixture models without importance sampling.

problem Proving sketching operators' Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) for mixture models without assuming importance sampling.
method Proposed alternative analysis based on new deterministic bounds and concentration inequalities.
result Theoretical guarantees for sketching operators without importance sampling.

A fast sketching algorithm solves regularized least squares problems efficiently.

problem Solving large-scale optimization problems with convex or nonconvex regularization.
method Sketching for Regularized Optimization (SRO) algorithm that generates a sketch of the original data matrix and solves the sketched problem.
result General theoretical results for the approximation error between the original and sketched problems, including minimax rates for sparse signal estimation.

A new method for estimating large-scale linear models with improved precision.

problem Estimating large-scale linear statistical models efficiently.
method Sequential Least-Squares Estimators with Fast Randomized Sketching (SLSE-FRS), integrating Sketch-and-Solve and Iterative-Sketching methods.
result SLSE-FRS produces high-precision estimators, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

DiPS learns to optimize sketching policies for better recommendation quality.

problem Optimizing sketching policies for long-term user interest prediction in recommender systems.
method Differentiable policy for sketching that learns from training data.
result DiPS requires up to 50% fewer sketch items to achieve the same recommendation quality.

Improved sketching for logistic and 1\ell_1 regression with near-linear dimensions.

problem Efficiently approximate 1\ell_1 and logistic regression problems.
method New sketching techniques achieving near-linear dimensions for both problems.
result Achieved near-linear sketching dimensions for 1\ell_1 and logistic regression.

We introduce a few variants on Frank-Wolfe style algorithms suitable for large scale optimization. We show how to modify the standard Frank-Wolfe algorithm using stochastic gradients, approximate subproblem solutions, and sketched decision variables in order to scale to enormous problems while preserving (up to constan…

2018-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Randomized algorithm solves vector-valued regression problems with low-rank operators.

problem Vector-valued regression problems involving infinite-dimensional spaces.
method Randomized Reduced Rank Regression (R4) using Gaussian sketching for optimization.
result R4 estimators are efficient and accurate, with empirical risk close to optimal.

Unified bounds for sketched bilinear forms in machine learning and statistics.

problem Uniform bounds on sketched bilinear forms for modern analyses.
method Generic chaining and new techniques for handling suprema over pairs of sets.
result Improved convergence bounds for sketched Federated Learning and bandit algorithms.

We improve prediction risk estimation for large datasets using sketching and ridge regression.

problem Estimating prediction risks for large datasets efficiently and accurately.
method Random matrix theory, generalized cross validation, sketched ridge regression ensembles, and ensemble trick.
result Consistent risk estimation and prediction intervals for large-scale datasets.

This article explores and analyzes the unsupervised clustering of large partially observed graphs. We propose a scalable and provable randomized framework for clustering graphs generated from the stochastic block model. The clustering is first applied to a sub-matrix of the graph's adjacency matrix associated with a re…

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We present sketch-rnn, a recurrent neural network (RNN) able to construct stroke-based drawings of common objects. The model is trained on thousands of crude human-drawn images representing hundreds of classes. We outline a framework for conditional and unconditional sketch generation, and describe new robust training …

2017-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗