17. LightOn AI Meetup: Overview of Recent Advancements in RandNLA

LightOn is redefining computing for some of today’s largest software/hardware challenges in AI and HPC, such as extreme-scale foundation models. Our vision is to lower the barrier to entry of Transformative AI for small and large businesses, in a sustainable way. We gather experts, engineers, researchers, who are shaping the world of tomorrow. We are back for our 17th edition!

Our meetups will happen online in order to keep our attendees safe until further notice.

This event takes place at 16:00, Paris time (UTC+1)

A Zoom link will be provided prior to the meetup.

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Agenda
16:00 – Introduction by LightOn

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16:05 – Overview of Recent ADvancements in RandNLA
by Vivak Patel, Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Daniel Adrian Maldonado, Assistant Energy Systems Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory

Abstract: In this talk, we offer a survey of recent advances in randomized numerical linear algebra (RNLA). By leveraging randomness, these methods offer extraordinary convergence properties and become important tools to tackle problems where large quantities of data are involved. We also introduce a class of solvers, the Random Partial Rotation (RPR), which generalize and span between high-memory-footprint random sketching methods and low-memory-footprint generalized randomized Kaczmarz (GRK) methods.