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The geometric mean of two matrices is considered and analyzed from a computational viewpoint. Some useful theoretical properties are derived and an analysis of the conditioning is performed. Several numerical algorithms based on different…
We present a class of algorithms based on rational Krylov methods to compute the action of a generalized matrix function on a vector. These algorithms incorporate existing methods based on the Golub-Kahan bidiagonalization as a special…
Matrix square roots and their inverses arise frequently in machine learning, e.g., when sampling from high-dimensional Gaussians $\mathcal{N}(\mathbf 0, \mathbf K)$ or whitening a vector $\mathbf b$ against covariance matrix $\mathbf K$.…
A coarse grid correction (CGC) approach is proposed to enhance the efficiency of the matrix exponential and $\varphi$ matrix function evaluations. The approach is intended for iterative methods computing the matrix-vector products with…
This paper addresses the numerical solution of the matrix square root problem. Two fixed point iterations are proposed by rearranging the nonlinear matrix equation $A - X^2 = 0$ and incorporating a positive scaling parameter. The proposals…
Bivariate matrix functions provide a unified framework for various tasks in numerical linear algebra, including the solution of linear matrix equations and the application of the Fr\'echet derivative. In this work, we propose a novel…
Krylov subspace methods are a powerful tool for efficiently solving high-dimensional linear algebra problems. In this work, we study the approximation quality that a Krylov subspace provides for estimating the numerical range of a matrix.…
We address the general mathematical problem of computing the inverse $p$-th root of a given matrix in an efficient way. A new method to construct iteration functions that allow calculating arbitrary $p$-th roots and their inverses of…
In the present paper, we propose Krylov-based methods for solving large-scale differential Sylvester matrix equations having a low rank constant term. We present two new approaches for solving such differential matrix equations. The first…
In this paper, we propose a new choice of poles to define reliable rational Krylov methods. These methods are used for approximating function of positive definite matrices. In particular, the fractional power and the fractional resolvent…
Nowadays, many fields of study are have to deal with large and sparse data matrixes, but the most important issue is finding the inverse of these matrixes. Thankfully, Krylov subspace methods can be used in solving these types of problem.…
We compare two approaches to compute a portion of the spectrum of dense symmetric definite generalized eigenproblems: one is based on the reduction to tridiagonal form, and the other on the Krylov-subspace iteration. Two large-scale…
We examine some numerical iterative methods for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of real matrices. The five methods examined here range from the simple power iteration method to the more complicated QR iteration method. The…
In this work, we propose a reduced basis method for efficient solution of parametric linear systems. The coefficient matrix is assumed to be a linear matrix-valued function that is symmetric and positive definite for admissible values of…
We construct a family of iterations for computing the principal square root of a square matrix $A$ using Zolotarev's rational minimax approximants of the square root function. We show that these rational functions obey a recursion, allowing…
In this paper we develop randomized Krylov subspace methods for efficiently computing regularized solutions to large-scale linear inverse problems. Building on the recently developed randomized Gram-Schmidt process, where sketched inner…
Krylov methods rely on iterated matrix-vector products $A^k u_j$ for an $n\times n$ matrix $A$ and vectors $u_1,\ldots,u_m$. The space spanned by all iterates $A^k u_j$ admits a particular basis -- the \emph{maximal Krylov basis} -- which…
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…
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…
The article shows how two choices are possible whenever computing the geometric mean, and the repetition of this process can in general yield 2-to-the power N different values when the choices are compounded in the first N steps of…