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Summer 2011 (TA)

• Research: Gram Matrix approximation
  • Recap:
    • Problem: kernel methods gram matrix is O(N^2), which is computational and memory usage infeasible for large-scale datasets
    • Previous Work:
      • Low rank matrix approximation:
        • using EigneDecomposition: Optimal solution but requires O(N^3) computation to construct the low rank matrix
        • Solution: use Nytsrom theorem to approximate the EigenDecomposition of the matrix which requires O(m^2N) where m << N.

• • • • • Problem: In this methods in despite of reducing the computation complexity still we need O(N^2) to store the matrix, so the next methods reduce both computation and memory.

• • • • Efficient implementation for computing the kernel matrix:
        • Using Spatial Indexing:

using Z-order, H-order, kd-tress and other spatial indexing techniques to order the points in the space and then using sliding window where the kernel function computed only between points in that window.

• • • • • • Problems: requires O(NlogN) as preprocessing to order the points, fails for very high dimensional Data and hard to parallel

So we proposed a method that works fine for large-scale and highly dimensional data that overcomes all pervious works drawbacks, easy to parallel, requires linear time preprocessing and reduce both computation and memory usage down form quadratic to subquadratic:

• • • • • Using Spatial Hashing or Locality sensitive hashing:

where the kernel function and the cluster methods works on the buckets individually.

• • • • • • LSH families :
            • Random projection: Hamming distance, Euclidean Distance, Cosine Distance

Problem: They assume data uniformly distributed solution:

• • • • • • • Spectral Hashing: overcomes previous families problmes

General Problem for random projection, it' doesn’t take in account if data are in a kernel space, Solution

• • • • • • • Kernelized LSH : Problem: more complex to compute

• • In progress: Comparing different LSH families

Spring 2011 (TA/RA)

• Courses:
  • CMPT 885: Special Topics in Computer Architecture
  • CMPT 886: Special Topics in Operating Systems

Fall 2010 (FAS-GF/RA)

• Courses:
  • CMPT 705: Design/Analysis Algorithms
  • CMPT 820: Multimedia Systems

• Worked on Gram matrix approximation, High Performance/large scale application case studies

Summer 2010 (TA)

• Worked on large Scale Kernel methods

Spring 2010 (RA)

• Courses:
  • CMPT 768: Sound Synthesis

• Worked on Locality sensitive hashing families and their applications and implementations