Column Subset Selection Problem is UG-hard

  • Authors:
  • A. Çivril

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

We address two problems related to selecting an optimal subset of columns from a matrix. In one of these problems, we are given a matrix A@?R^m^x^n and a positive integer k, and we want to select a sub-matrix C of k columns to minimize @?A-@P"CA@?"F, where @P"C=CC^+ denotes the matrix of projection onto the space spanned by C. In the other problem, we are given A@?R^m^x^n, positive integers c and r, and we want to select sub-matrices C and R of c columns and r rows of A, respectively, to minimize @?A-CUR@?"F, where U@?R^c^x^r is the pseudo-inverse of the intersection between C and R. Although there is a plethora of algorithmic results, the complexity of these problems has not been investigated thus far. We show that these two problems are NP-hard assuming UGC.