Matrices have become essential data representations for many large-scale problems in data analytics, and hence matrix sketching is a critical task. Although much research has focused on improving the error/size tradeoff under various sketching paradigms, we find a simple heuristic iSVD, with no guarantees, tends to outperform all known approaches. In this paper we adapt the best performing guaranteed algorithm, FrequentDirections, in a way that preserves the guarantees, and nearly matches iSVD in practice. We also demonstrate an adversarial dataset for which iSVD performs quite poorly, but our new technique has almost no error. Finally, we provide easy replication of our studies on APT, a new testbed which makes available not only code and datasets, but also a computing platform with fixed environmental settings. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Ghashami, M., Desai, A., & Phillips, J. M. (2014). Improved practical matrix sketching with guarantees. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8737 LNCS, pp. 467–479). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44777-2_39
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