Randomly pivoted Cholesky: practical approximation of a kernel matrix with few entry evaluations

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In this very interesting paper, the authors study the following question: What are the best algorithms for finding a low-rank approximation of a large positive semi-definite kernel matrix? The question is motivated in part by kernel methods which are used in machine learning to do various tasks for example interpolation, regression, clustering, and summarization of data for a large number of points. The authors introduce an algorthim they call a randomly pivoted Cholesky algorithm (RPCholesky) which computes a factorized rank-\(k\) appoximation of an \(N\times N\) positive-semidefinite matrix. The algorithm requires only \((k+1)N\) entry evaluations with an additional \(O(k^{2}N)\) arithmetic operations and is in particular very useful in approximating a kernel matrix when the number of entries is large. The paper gives a very detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of the algorthm and show hiw it beats many other classical algorithms in many applications.



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