Exploiting Low-Rank Objective Structure in Discrete Quadratic Optimization
arXiv:2602. 20376v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a complex-valued quadratic form over the $K^{\text{th}}$ roots of unity.
arXiv:2607. 04062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the fundamental classification problem of computing a separating hyperplane for a binary-labeled dataset of size $n$ with normalized $d$-dimensional features.
arXiv:2602. 20376v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a complex-valued quadratic form over the $K^{\text{th}}$ roots of unity.
arXiv:2608. 10523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: \texttt{TensorSketch} by~\cite{pham2013fast,kar2012random} provides efficient sketching algorithms for high-dimensional polynomial kernels $\vec{x}^{\otimes p} \in \R^{d^p}$.
arXiv:2507.19290v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of learning a structured approximation (low-rank, sparse, banded, etc.) to an unknown matrix $A$ given access to matrix-...
\texttt{TensorSketch} by~\cite{pham2013fast,kar2012random} provides efficient sketching algorithms for high-dimensional polynomial kernels $\vec{x}^{\otimes p} \in \R^{d^p}$. \cite{kar2012random} uses dense Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL)-type projections with computational cost $O(pDd)$, where $D$ denotes the sketch dimension, whereas~\cite{pham2013fast} extends the sparse \texttt{CountSketch}~\citep{count_sketch} algorithm, yielding a faster algorithm for high-dimensional sparse inputs with running time $O\big(p(\nnz{\vec{x}} + D \log D)\big)$.
arXiv:2609. 03762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The computation of the Bures-Wasserstein (BW) barycenter of an ensemble of positive definite matrices arises throughout machine learning, optimal transport, and quantum information.
arXiv:2511.02821v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop new accelerated first-order algorithms in the Frank-Wolfe (FW) family for minimizing smooth convex functions over compact convex s...
arXiv:2504.09409v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we study nonconvex constrained stochastic zeroth-order optimization problems with exact constraints and stochastic objective e...
arXiv:2609.38834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive learning is a successful paradigm for learning $d$-dimensional geometric representations from a collection of ``anchor--positive--negativ...
arXiv:2509. 20848v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the classic point location problem, one is given an arbitrary dataset $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points with query access to an unknown halfspace $f : \mathbb{R}^d \to \{0,1\}$, and the goal is to learn the label of every point in $X$.
arXiv:2609.38561v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zeroth-order optimization methods are essential for solving black-box problems where gradient information is unavailable or expensive to compute. Thi...
Randomized sketch-and-solve algorithms accelerate overconstrained $\ell_2$ regression by replacing the input with a smaller problem. Standard subspace embeddings guarantee that the cost of the regress...
arXiv:2606. 23867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The exact computation of the Normalized Maximum Likelihood (NML) codelength for regular non-smooth estimators (e.