Sampling methods for the Nyström method

  • Authors:
  • Sanjiv Kumar;Mehryar Mohri;Ameet Talwalkar

  • Affiliations:
  • Google Research, New York, NY;Courant Institute and Google Research, New York, NY;University of California, Berkeley, Division of Computer Science, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Nyström method is an efficient technique to generate low-rank matrix approximations and is used in several large-scale learning applications. A key aspect of this method is the procedure according to which columns are sampled from the original matrix. In this work, we explore the efficacy of a variety of fixed and adaptive sampling schemes. We also propose a family of ensemble-based sampling algorithms for the Nyström method. We report results of extensive experiments that provide a detailed comparison of various fixed and adaptive sampling techniques, and demonstrate the performance improvement associated with the ensemble Nyström method when used in conjunction with either fixed or adaptive sampling schemes. Corroborating these empirical findings, we present a theoretical analysis of the Nyström method, providing novel error bounds guaranteeing a better convergence rate of the ensemble Nyström method in comparison to the standard Nyström method.