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Main Authors: Chen, Tyler, Huber, Caroline, Lin, Ethan, Zaid, Hajar
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18717
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  • We describe a randomized variant of the block conjugate gradient method for solving a single positive-definite linear system of equations. Our method provably outperforms preconditioned conjugate gradient with a broad-class of Nyström-based preconditioners, without ever explicitly constructing a preconditioner. In analyzing our algorithm, we derive theoretical guarantees for new variants of Nyström preconditioned conjugate gradient which may be of separate interest. We also describe how our approach yields state-of-the-art algorithms for key data-science tasks such as computing the entire ridge regression regularization path and generating multiple independent samples from a high-dimensional Gaussian distribution.