A fast random sampling algorithm for sparsifying matrices

  • Authors:
  • Sanjeev Arora;Elad Hazan;Satyen Kale

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;Computer Science Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;Computer Science Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  • Venue:
  • APPROX'06/RANDOM'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, and 10th international conference on Randomization and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We describe a simple random-sampling based procedure for producing sparse matrix approximations. Our procedure and analysis are extremely simple: the analysis uses nothing more than the Chernoff-Hoeffding bounds. Despite the simplicity, the approximation is comparable and sometimes better than previous work. Our algorithm computes the sparse matrix approximation in a single pass over the data. Further, most of the entries in the output matrix are quantized, and can be succinctly represented by a bit vector, thus leading to much savings in space.