Title
Random projections for the nonnegative least-squares problem
Abstract
Constrained least-squares regression problems, such as the Nonnegative Least Squares (NNLS) problem, where the variables are restricted to take only nonnegative values, often arise in applications. Motivated by the recent development of the fast Johnson–Lindestrauss transform, we present a fast random projection type approximation algorithm for the NNLS problem. Our algorithm employs a randomized Hadamard transform to construct a much smaller NNLS problem and solves this smaller problem using a standard NNLS solver. We prove that our approach finds a nonnegative solution vector that, with high probability, is close to the optimum nonnegative solution in a relative error approximation sense. We experimentally evaluate our approach on a large collection of term-document data and verify that it does offer considerable speedups without a significant loss in accuracy. Our analysis is based on a novel random projection type result that might be of independent interest. In particular, given a tall and thin matrix Φ∈Rn×d (n≫d) and a vector y∈Rd, we prove that the Euclidean length of Φy can be estimated very accurately by the Euclidean length of Φ∼y, where Φ∼ consists of a small subset of (appropriately rescaled) rows of Φ.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.laa.2009.03.026
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Non negative least-squares,Sampling,Hadamard transform,Randomized algorithm,Random projections
Least squares,Non-negative least squares,Random projection,Approximation algorithm,Randomized algorithm,Combinatorics,Matrix (mathematics),Euclidean distance,Hadamard transform,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
431
5
0024-3795
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.61
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christos Boutsidis161033.37
Petros Drineas22165201.55