May 18 – 22, 2026
Virginia Tech
America/New_York timezone

Accelerating Spectral Clustering of Time Series by approximating the Similarity Matrix using Randomly Pivoted Cholesky

May 18, 2026, 2:25 PM
25m
Torgersen Hall 1040 (Virginia Tech)

Torgersen Hall 1040

Virginia Tech

Minisymposium Talk Low-Complexity Data-driven or Classical Algorithms and Applications Low-Complexity Data-driven or Classical Algorithms and Applications

Speaker

Raf Vandebril (Dept. Computer Science, KU Leuven)

Description

A major problem for time series clustering is that computing the similarity matrix for the most used similarity measures becomes infeasible if number amount or length of time series becomes too large. However, since this similarity matrix typically has low-rank structure, it can be approximated using a low-rank approximation. In this work, we show that existing numerical linear algebra methods, more specifically Randomly Pivoted Cholesky can be used in the context of time series clustering to drastically reduce the computational cost of calculating the similarity matrix, while maintaining the clustering quality. This shows that low-rank approximation algorithms are an effective and scalable technique that can be used in time series clustering.

Authors

Raf Vandebril (Dept. Computer Science, KU Leuven) Sander Das (KU Leuven) Thijs Steel (KU Leuven) Dr Wannes Meert

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