Randomized SVD Approximations for Spectral Co-Clustering of Word-Document Matrices

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Randomized SVD for spectral co-clustering

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2026-09-16

This is classical unsupervised text mining rather than LLM work, but if the reader runs spectral co-clustering at scale, the random-projection variant is cheap to implement on a single machine and warrants workload-specific validation of cluster quality against the runtime saved.

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   The methods replace the full SVD used in normalized spectral co-clustering of word-document matrices with a random-projection randomized SVD or a partial SVD combined with element-wise sampling. The cost is approximation error in the spectral embedding, which can degrade cluster quality, and the added implementation complexity of maintaining two algorithm variants. The sampling-based variant can fail on already sparse text matrices, where it provides limited benefit, so the choice of approximation depends on the sparsity structure of the data.

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   Both randomized approximations reduce runtime relative to the full-SVD baseline, with the random-projection variant the more reliable across tested settings; no specific speedup factor is stated.

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