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Efficient error estimators for Generalized Nystr\"om

Numerical Analysis 2026-01-19 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Randomized algorithms in numerical linear algebra have proven to be effective in ameliorating issues of scalability when working with large matrices, efficiently producing accurate low-rank approximations. A key remaining challenge, however, is to efficiently assess the approximation accuracy of randomized methods without additional expensive matrix accesses. Recent work has addressed this issue by deriving fast leave-one-out error estimators for the randomized SVD and Nystr\"om decomposition, enabling accurate error estimation with no additional matrix accesses. In this work, we extend the leave-one-out framework to the generalized Nystr\"om decomposition, an approach that can be applied to general rectangular matrices. We do this by deriving three new leave-one-out error estimators and validating their effectiveness through numerical experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2601.11493,
  title  = {Efficient error estimators for Generalized Nystr\"om},
  author = {Lorenzo Lazzarino and Katherine J. Pearce and Nathaniel Pritchard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11493},
  year   = {2026}
}
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