Independent Gaussian rows partly repeat one another, so some of the sketch width buys nothing. Orthogonalising the rows removes that redundancy and, in the paper measurements, almost always improves the quantizer.
References
Zandieh, A., Daliri, M. & Han, I. (2024). arXiv:2406.03482, section 4.1 (orthogonalized JL transform).
Examples
V <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Tqorth(V)
#> $S_orth
#> [,1]
#> [1,] 1
#> [2,] 0
#> [3,] 0
#> [4,] 0
#> [5,] 0
#> [6,] 0
#> [7,] 0
#> [8,] 0
#>
#> $estimate
#> [1] 1
#>
#> $m
#> [1] 8
#>
#> $d
#> [1] 1
#>
#> $orth_err
#> [1] 1
#>
#> $method
#> [1] "Orthogonalized JL sketch matrix"
#>
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "morie_rich_result" "list"
