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Finding the maximal component of a vector in sublinear time

Given a vector $u \in \Bbb R^n$, finding the value of the largest component of $u$ needs linear time in $n$. However, what if we additionally know that $u$ lies in some linear subspace $U \subset \Bbb ...
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Fastest algorithm for finding the closest semi-definite matrix?

Given a real-valued, symmetric matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$, I'm interested in finding the closest positive semi-definite matrix $X^*\in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$: $$ X^* = \mathop{\text{...
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