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Accelerated Stochastic Matrix Inversion: General Theory and Speeding up BFGS Rules for Faster Second-Order Optimization

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Robust Adaptive Decision Making: Bayesian Optimization and Beyond

Ilija Bogunovic

The central task in many interactive machine learning systems can be formalized as the sequential optimization of a black-box function. Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful model-based framework for \emph{adaptive} experimentation, where the primary go ...

EPFL2019

hm-toolbox: Matlab software for HODLR and HSS matrices

Daniel Kressner, Stefano Massei

Matrices with hierarchical low-rank structure, including HODLR and HSS matrices, constitute a versatile tool to develop fast algorithms for addressing large-scale problems. While existing software packages for such matrices often focus on linear systems, t ...

2019

MATHICSE Technical Report : On maximum volume submatrices and cross approximation for symmetric semidefinite and diagonally dominant matrices

Daniel Kressner, Stefano Massei, Alice Cortinovis

The problem of finding a

k\times k

submatrix of maximum volume of a matrix A is of interest in a variety of applications. For example, it yields a quasi-best low-rank approximation constructed from the rows and columns of A. We show that such a submatrix ...

MATHICSE2019

Mixing of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on strongly log-concave distributions 2: Numerical integrators

Oren Rami Mangoubi

We obtain quantitative bounds on the mixing properties of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm with target distribution in d-dimensional Euclidean space, showing that HMC mixes quickly whenever the target log-distribution is strongly concave and has ...

MICROTOME PUBLISHING2019

Accelerated Stochastic Matrix Inversion: General Theory and Speeding up BFGS Rules for Faster Second-Order Optimization

Sebastian Urban Stich

We present the first accelerated randomized algorithm for solving linear systems in Euclidean spaces. One essential problem of this type is the matrix inversion problem. In particular, our algorithm can be specialized to invert positive definite matrices i ...

2018

Algorithms For Clustering Problems

Ashkan Norouzi Fard

Clustering is a classic topic in combinatorial optimization and plays a central role in many areas, including data science and machine learning. In this thesis, we first focus on the dynamic facility location problem (i.e., the facility location problem in ...

EPFL2018

Unlabeled Sensing with Random Linear Measurements

Martin Vetterli, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, Saeid Haghighatshoar

We study the problem of solving a linear sensing system when the observations are unlabeled. Specifically we seek a solution to a linear system of equations y = Ax when the order of the observations in the vector y is unknown. Focusing on the setting in wh ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Body posture can greatly influence human performance when carrying out manipulation tasks. Adopting an appropriate pose helps us regulate our motion and strengthen our capability to achieve a given task. This effect is also observed in robotic manipulation ...

2018

Fixed-Rank Approximation of a Positive-Semidefinite Matrix from Streaming Data

Volkan Cevher, Alp Yurtsever

Several important applications, such as streaming PCA and semidefinite programming, involve a large-scale positive-semidefinite (psd) matrix that is presented as a sequence of linear updates. Because of storage limitations, it may only be possible to retai ...

2017

This work studies the problem of statistical inference for Fréchet means in the Wasserstein space of measures on Euclidean spaces,

\mathcal W_2 ( \mathbb R^d )

. This question arises naturally from the problem of separating amplitude and phase variation i ...

EPFL2017