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Accurate principal component analysis via a few iterations of alternating least squares

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arxiv 1603.01765 v1 pith:EAYLWTPK submitted 2016-03-05 math.NA cs.NAstat.CO

Accurate principal component analysis via a few iterations of alternating least squares

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keywords alternatingleastsquaresaccurateapproximationsconvergenceiterationslow-rank
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A few iterations of alternating least squares with a random starting point provably suffice to produce nearly optimal spectral- and Frobenius-norm accuracies of low-rank approximations to a matrix; iterating to convergence is unnecessary. Thus, software implementing alternating least squares can be retrofitted via appropriate setting of parameters to calculate nearly optimally accurate low-rank approximations highly efficiently, with no need for convergence.

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