“random sketches”

Abstract: Random embedding techniques, such as random Fourier features, are widely used to sketch initial data to a new, kernelised feature space. In this work, we leverage a specific property of random rank-one projection operators, the sign product embedding, to approximate a quadratic polynomial kernel using the scalar product of a pair asymmetric vector embeddings, with one taking only binary values.

Abstract: Random data sketching (or projection) is now a classical technique enabling, for instance, approximate numerical linear algebra and machine learning algorithms with reduced computational complexity and memory. In this context, the possibility of performing data processing (such as pattern detection or classification) directly in the sketched domain without accessing the original data was previously achieved for linear random sketching methods and compressive sensing.

Abstract: Many signal processing and machine learning applications are built from evaluating a kernel on pairs of signals, e.g. to assess the similarity of an incoming query to a database of known signals.