Faster least squares approximation

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DOI10.1007/S00211-010-0331-6zbMATH Open1218.65037arXiv0710.1435OpenAlexW2007399394MaRDI QIDQ623334FDOQ623334

Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 14 February 2011

Published in: Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Least squares approximation is a technique to find an approximate solution to a system of linear equations that has no exact solution. In a typical setting, one lets n be the number of constraints and d be the number of variables, with nggd. Then, existing exact methods find a solution vector in O(nd2) time. We present two randomized algorithms that provide very accurate relative-error approximations to the optimal value and the solution vector of a least squares approximation problem more rapidly than existing exact algorithms. Both of our algorithms preprocess the data with the Randomized Hadamard Transform. One then uniformly randomly samples constraints and solves the smaller problem on those constraints, and the other performs a sparse random projection and solves the smaller problem on those projected coordinates. In both cases, solving the smaller problem provides relative-error approximations, and, if n is sufficiently larger than d, the approximate solution can be computed in O(ndlogd) time.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1435





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