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Quantum Krylov algorithms have emerged as a promising approach for ground-state energy estimation in the near-term quantum computing era. A major challenge, however, lies in their inherently substantial sampling cost, primarily due to the…

Power iteration can improve the accuracy of randomized SVD, but requires multiple data passes, making it impractical in streaming or memory-constrained settings. We introduce a lightweight yet effective sketch-power iteration, allowing…

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Randomized numerical linear algebra is proved to bridge theoretical advancements to offer scalable solutions for approximating tensor decomposition. This paper introduces fast randomized algorithms for solving the fixed Tucker-rank problem…

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Computing the null space of a large sparse matrix $A$ is a challenging computational problem, especially if the nullity -- the dimension of the null space -- is not small. When applying a block Lanczos method to $A^\mathsf{T} A$ for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Daniel Kressner , Nian Shao

The spectral decomposition of a real skew-symmetric matrix $A$ can be mathematically transformed into a specific structured singular value decomposition (SVD) of $A$. Based on such equivalence, a skew-symmetric Lanczos bidiagonalization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Jinzhi Huang , Zhongxiao Jia

We propose a thick-restart block Lanczos method, which is an extension of the thick-restart Lanczos method with the block algorithm, as an eigensolver of the large-scale shell-model calculations. This method has two advantages over the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Noritaka Shimizu , Takahiro Mizusaki , Yutaka Utsuno , Yusuke Tsunoda

We propose a new variational Monte Carlo (VMC) approach based on the Krylov subspace for large-scale shell-model calculations. A random walker in the VMC is formulated with the $M$-scheme representation, and samples a small number of…

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Compared to the classical Lanczos algorithm, the $s$-step Lanczos variant has the potential to improve performance by asymptotically decreasing the synchronization cost per iteration. However, this comes at a cost. Despite being…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Erin Carson , Tomáš Gergelits

We show that the standard Lanczos algorithm can be efficiently implemented statistically and self consistently improved, using the stochastic reconfigurat ion method, which has been recently introduced to stabilize the Monte Carlo sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-05 S. Sorella

We extend the error bounds from [SIMAX, Vol. 43, Iss. 2, pp. 787-811 (2022)] for the Lanczos method for matrix function approximation to the block algorithm. Numerical experiments suggest that our bounds are fairly robust to changing block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Qichen Xu , Tyler Chen

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most powerful tools in machine learning. The simplest method for PCA, the power iteration, requires $\mathcal O(1/\Delta)$ full-data passes to recover the principal component of a matrix with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Christopher De Sa , Bryan He , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Christopher Ré , Peng Xu

This article introduces randomized block Gram-Schmidt process (RBGS) for QR decomposition. RBGS extends the single-vector randomized Gram-Schmidt (RGS) algorithm and inherits its key characteristics such as being more efficient and having…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Oleg Balabanov , Laura Grigori

We provide convergence rates for Krylov subspace solutions to the trust-region and cubic-regularized (nonconvex) quadratic problems. Such solutions may be efficiently computed by the Lanczos method and have long been used in practice. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Yair Carmon , John C. Duchi

This paper revisits the error analysis of the Stochastic Lanczos Quadrature (SLQ) method for approximating the trace of matrix functions, with a specific focus on asymmetric Lanczos quadrature rules. We reexplain an existing theoretical…

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Spectral clustering is one of the most important algorithms in data mining and machine intelligence; however, its computational complexity limits its application to truly large scale data analysis. The computational bottleneck in spectral…

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Aiming to provide a faster and convenient truncated SVD algorithm for large sparse matrices from real applications (i.e. for computing a few of largest singular values and the corresponding singular vectors), a dynamically shifted power…

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Many large-scale stochastic optimization algorithms involve repeated solutions of linear systems or evaluations of log-determinants. In these regimes, computing exact solutions is often unnecessary; it is more computationally efficient to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Tianshi Xu , Difeng Cai , Hua Huang , Edmond Chow , Yuanzhe Xi

The Lanczos algorithm, introduced by Cornelius Lanczos, has been known for a long time and is widely used in computational physics. While often employed to approximate extreme eigenvalues and eigenvectores of an operator, recently interest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-12 J. Eckseler , M. Pieper , J. Schnack

We present randUBV, a randomized algorithm for matrix sketching based on the block Lanzcos bidiagonalization process. Given a matrix $\bf{A}$, it produces a low-rank approximation of the form ${\bf UBV}^T$, where $\bf{U}$ and $\bf{V}$ have…

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