Fast and Accurate Interpolative Decompositions for General, Sparse, and Structured Tensors

Yifan Zhang, Mark Fornace, Michael Lindsey

Published: 2025, Last Modified: 08 May 2026CoRR 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: In this work, we develop deterministic and random sketching-based algorithms for two types of tensor interpolative decompositions (ID): the core interpolative decomposition (CoreID, also known as the structure-preserving HOSVD) and the satellite interpolative decomposition (SatID, also known as the HOID or CURT). We adopt a new adaptive approach that leads to ID error bounds independent of the size of the tensor. In addition to the adaptive approach, we use tools from random sketching to enable an efficient and provably accurate calculation of these decompositions. We also design algorithms specialized to tensors that are sparse or given as a sum of rank-one tensors, i.e., in the CP format. Besides theoretical analyses, numerical experiments on both synthetic and real-world data demonstrate the power of the proposed algorithms.
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