arXiv Machine Learning By Michael R. Metel

Uniform Sampling from High-dimensional Spectral Norm Balls

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arXiv:2606. 24134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by an application in machine learning optimization, this paper focuses on the challenges of sampling a matrix uniformly from the unit spectral norm ball.

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