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This article presents a randomized matrix-free method for approximating the trace of $f({\bf A})$, where ${\bf A}$ is a large symmetric matrix and $f$ is a function analytic in a closed interval containing the eigenvalues of ${\bf A}$. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Eric Hallman , Devon Troester

Stochastic trace estimation is a well-established tool for approximating the trace of a large symmetric matrix $\boldsymbol{B}$. Several applications involve a matrix that depends continuously on a parameter $t \in [a,b]$, and require trace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Fabio Matti , Haoze He , Daniel Kressner , Hei Yin Lam

This paper studies two potential modifications of XTrace (Epperly et al., SIMAX 45(1):1-23, 2024), a randomized algorithm for estimating the trace of a matrix. The first is a variance reduction step that averages the output of XTrace over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Eric Hallman

We report on the use of a stochastic trace estimator algorithm, based on mutually unbiased bases, for evaluating the trace of a matrix differential operator appearing in the context of lattice simulations for the discretized superstring…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-05-18 Valentina Forini , Bjoern Leder , Nils Wauschkuhn

Hutchinson estimators are widely employed in training divergence-based likelihoods for diffusion models to ensure optimal transport (OT) properties. However, this estimator often suffers from high variance and scalability concerns. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Xinyang Liu , Hengrong Du , Wei Deng , Ruqi Zhang

The paper establishes the new state-of-art in the accuracy analysis of Hutchinson's trace estimator. Leveraging tools that have not been previously used in this context, particularly hypercontractive inequalities and concentration…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Maciej Skorski

We consider estimating a matrix from noisy observations coming from an arbitrary additive bi-rotational invariant perturbation. We propose an estimator which is optimal among the class of rectangular rotational invariant estimators and can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Farzad Pourkamali , Nicolas Macris

This paper deals with the trace regression model where $n$ entries or linear combinations of entries of an unknown $m_1\times m_2$ matrix $A_0$ corrupted by noise are observed. We propose a new nuclear norm penalized estimator of $A_0$ and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Vladimir Koltchinskii , Alexandre B. Tsybakov , Karim Lounici

We derive a maximum a posteriori estimator for the linear observation model, where the signal and noise covariance matrices are both uncertain. The uncertainties are treated probabilistically by modeling the covariance matrices with prior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Dave Zachariah , Nafiseh Shariati , Mats Bengtsson , Magnus Jansson , Saikat Chatterjee

Motivated by the desire to understand stochastic algorithms for nonconvex optimization that are robust to their hyperparameter choices, we analyze a mini-batched prox-linear iterative algorithm for the problem of recovering an unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Mengqi Lou , Kabir Aladin Verchand , Ashwin Pananjady

In this paper, we develop a novel regularization method for deep neural networks by penalizing the trace of Hessian. This regularizer is motivated by a recent guarantee bound of the generalization error. We explain its benefits in finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yucong Liu , Shixing Yu , Tong Lin

The trace of a matrix function f(A), most notably of the matrix inverse, can be estimated stochastically using samples< x,f(A)x> if the components of the random vectors x obey an appropriate probability distribution. However such a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Andreas Frommer , Mostafa Nasr Khalil , Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo

We consider the problem of estimating the trace of a matrix function $f(A)$. In certain situations, in particular if $f(A)$ cannot be well approximated by a low-rank matrix, combining probing methods based on graph colorings with stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Andreas Frommer , Michele Rinelli , Marcel Schweitzer

Randomized trace estimation is a popular and well studied technique that approximates the trace of a large-scale matrix $B$ by computing the average of $x^T Bx$ for many samples of a random vector $X$. Often, $B$ is symmetric positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Alice Cortinovis , Daniel Kressner

We propose a novel iterative algorithm for estimating a deterministic but unknown parameter vector in the presence of model uncertainties. This iterative algorithm is based on a system model where an overall noise term describes both, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Oliver Lang , Michael Lunglmayr , Mario Huemer

We study the problem of estimating a rank one signal matrix from an observed matrix generated by corrupting the signal with additive rotationally invariant noise. We develop a new class of approximate message-passing algorithms for this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Rishabh Dudeja , Songbin Liu , Junjie Ma

The objective function of a matrix factorization model usually aims to minimize the average of a regression error contributed by each element. However, given the existence of stochastic noises, the implicit deviations of sample data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Guang-He Lee , Shao-Wen Yang , Shou-De Lin

Matrix approximation is a common tool in machine learning for building accurate prediction models for recommendation systems, text mining, and computer vision. A prevalent assumption in constructing matrix approximations is that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-16 Joonseok Lee , Seungyeon Kim , Guy Lebanon , Yoram Singer

We derive an estimate of statistical error in calculating the trace of a large matrix by using random vector, and show that {\em random phase vector} gives the results with the smallest statistical error for a given basis set. This result…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Toshiaki Iitaka , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

This paper examines a general class of noisy matrix completion tasks where the goal is to estimate a matrix from observations obtained at a subset of its entries, each of which is subject to random noise or corruption. Our specific focus is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-18 Akshay Soni , Swayambhoo Jain , Jarvis Haupt , Stefano Gonella