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Recently a novel family of eigensolvers, called spectral indicator methods (SIMs), was proposed. Given a region on the complex plane, SIMs first compute an indicator by the spectral projection. The indicator is used to test if the region…

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Randomized sketching is currently introduced into every area of numerical linear algebra. In Krylov subspace methods, it allows runtime savings at the cost of small accuracy reductions. This work offers a different view on sketching in…

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In the Sparse Linear Regression (SLR) problem, given a $d \times n$ matrix $M$ and a $d$-dimensional query $q$, the goal is to compute a $k$-sparse $n$-dimensional vector $\tau$ such that the error $||M \tau-q||$ is minimized. This problem…

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We introduce a linear-scaling stochastic method to compute real-space maps of any positive local spectral operator in a tight-binding model. By employing positive-definite estimators, the sampling error at each site can be rigorously…

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In this paper, we consider an efficient iterative approach to the solution of the discrete Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet, Neumann and Sommerfeld-like boundary conditions based on a compact sixth order approximation scheme and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Yury Gryazin

We compute a \emph{sparse} solution to the classical least-squares problem $\min_x||A x -b||,$ where $A$ is an arbitrary matrix. We describe a novel algorithm for this sparse least-squares problem. The algorithm operates as follows: first,…

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In this paper, we address the accuracy of the results for the overdetermined full rank linear least squares problem. We recall theoretical results obtained in Arioli, Baboulin and Gratton, SIMAX 29(2):413--433, 2007, on conditioning of the…

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In the numerical treatment of large-scale Sylvester and Lyapunov equations, projection methods require solving a reduced problem to check convergence. As the approximation space expands, this solution takes an increasing portion of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Davide Palitta , Valeria Simoncini

We consider the problem of approximating the von Neumann entropy of a large, sparse, symmetric positive semidefinite matrix $A$, defined as $\operatorname{tr}(f(A))$ where $f(x)=-x\log x$. After establishing some useful properties of this…

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A classical problem in matrix computations is the efficient and reliable approximation of a given matrix by a matrix of lower rank. The truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) is known to provide the best such approximation for any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Ming Gu

Sequences of parametrized Lyapunov equations can be encountered in many application settings. Moreover, solutions of such equations are often intermediate steps of an overall procedure whose main goal is the computation of…

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Preconditioned Krylov subspace (KSP) methods are widely used for solving large-scale sparse linear systems arising from numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs). These linear systems are often nonsymmetric due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Aditi Ghai , Cao Lu , Xiangmin Jiao

The Nystr\"om method is a popular choice for finding a low-rank approximation to a symmetric positive semi-definite matrix. The method can fail when applied to symmetric indefinite matrices, for which the error can be unboundedly large. In…

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Multivariate global polynomial approximations - such as polynomial chaos or stochastic collocation methods - are now in widespread use for sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification. The pseudospectral variety of these methods uses…

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Matrix--vector algorithms, particularly Krylov subspace methods, are widely viewed as the most effective algorithms for solving large systems of linear equations. This paper establishes lower bounds on the worst-case number of…

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The sufficiently scattered condition (SSC) is a key condition in the study of identifiability of various matrix factorization problems, including nonnegative, minimum-volume, symmetric, simplex-structured, and polytopic matrix…

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We consider the approximation of $B^T (A+sI)^{-1} B$ for large s.p.d. $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ with dense spectrum and $B\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$, $p\ll n$. We target the computations of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transfer…

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We propose a closed-form spectral framework for relative log-density estimation in linearly parameterized probabilistic models, including unnormalized and conditional models. This is achieved by representing the Kullback-Leibler (KL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Francis Bach

Many problems in data science can be treated as estimating a low-rank matrix from highly incomplete, sometimes even corrupted, observations. One popular approach is to resort to matrix factorization, where the low-rank matrix factors are…

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We propose an adaptive randomized truncation estimator for Krylov subspace methods that optimizes the trade-off between the solution variance and the computational cost, while remaining unbiased. The estimator solves a constrained…

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