Efficient Sketching-Based Summation of Tucker Tensors

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Main Authors: Smith, Rudi, Pasha, Mirjeta, Galindo-Olarte, Andrés, Daas, Hussam Al, Ballard, Grey, Nakao, Joseph, Qiu, Jing-Mei, Taitano, William
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author Smith, Rudi
Pasha, Mirjeta
Galindo-Olarte, Andrés
Daas, Hussam Al
Ballard, Grey
Nakao, Joseph
Qiu, Jing-Mei
Taitano, William
author_facet Smith, Rudi
Pasha, Mirjeta
Galindo-Olarte, Andrés
Daas, Hussam Al
Ballard, Grey
Nakao, Joseph
Qiu, Jing-Mei
Taitano, William
contents We present efficient, sketching-based methods for the summation of tensors in Tucker format. Leveraging the algebraic structure of Khatri-Rao and Kronecker products, our approach enables compressed arithmetic on Tucker tensors while controlling rank growth and computational cost. The proposed sketching framework avoids the explicit formation of large intermediate tensors, instead operating directly on the factor matrices and core tensors to produce accurate low-rank approximations of tensor sums. Furthermore, we analyze the computational complexity and the theoretical approximation properties of the proposed methodology. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on four problems: two synthetic test cases, a parameter-dependent elliptic equation (commonly referred to as the cookie problem) solved via GMRES, and a one-dimensional linear transport problem discretized via high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods, where repeated tensor summation arises as a core computational bottleneck. Across these examples, the sketching-based summation achieves substantial computational savings while preserving high accuracy relative to direct summation and re-compression.
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spellingShingle Efficient Sketching-Based Summation of Tucker Tensors
Smith, Rudi
Pasha, Mirjeta
Galindo-Olarte, Andrés
Daas, Hussam Al
Ballard, Grey
Nakao, Joseph
Qiu, Jing-Mei
Taitano, William
Numerical Analysis
15A69, 65F10, 65F55, 65M60, 68W20, 35L65
We present efficient, sketching-based methods for the summation of tensors in Tucker format. Leveraging the algebraic structure of Khatri-Rao and Kronecker products, our approach enables compressed arithmetic on Tucker tensors while controlling rank growth and computational cost. The proposed sketching framework avoids the explicit formation of large intermediate tensors, instead operating directly on the factor matrices and core tensors to produce accurate low-rank approximations of tensor sums. Furthermore, we analyze the computational complexity and the theoretical approximation properties of the proposed methodology. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on four problems: two synthetic test cases, a parameter-dependent elliptic equation (commonly referred to as the cookie problem) solved via GMRES, and a one-dimensional linear transport problem discretized via high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods, where repeated tensor summation arises as a core computational bottleneck. Across these examples, the sketching-based summation achieves substantial computational savings while preserving high accuracy relative to direct summation and re-compression.
title Efficient Sketching-Based Summation of Tucker Tensors
topic Numerical Analysis
15A69, 65F10, 65F55, 65M60, 68W20, 35L65
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13532