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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Kai Bergermann , Martin Stoll

A Krylov subspace recycling method for the efficient evaluation of a sequence of matrix functions acting on a set of vectors is developed. The method improves over the recycling methods presented in [Burke et al., arXiv:2209.14163, 2022] in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Liam Burke , Stefan Güttel

A common way to approximate $F(A)b$ -- the action of a matrix function on a vector -- is to use the Arnoldi approximation. Since a new vector needs to be generated and stored in every iteration, one is often forced to rely on restart…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Andreas Frommer , Karsten Kahl , Marcel Schweitzer , Manuel Tsolakis

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Michele Benzi , Michele Rinelli , Igor Simunec

We study a reliable pole selection for the rational approximation of the resolvent of fractional powers of operators in both the finite and infinite dimensional setting. The analysis exploits the representation in terms of hypergeometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Lidia Aceto , Paolo Novati

This paper studies theoretical lower bounds for estimating the trace of a matrix function, $\text{tr}(f(A))$, focusing on methods that use Hutchinson's method along with Block Krylov techniques. These methods work by approximating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Shi Jie Yu

We introduce an algorithm for estimating the trace of a matrix function $f(\mathbf{A})$ using implicit products with a symmetric matrix $\mathbf{A}$. Existing methods for implicit trace estimation of a matrix function tend to treat…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Tyler Chen , Eric Hallman

An a posteriori estimate for the error of a standard Krylov approximation to the matrix exponential is derived. The estimate is based on the defect (residual) of the Krylov approximation and is proven to constitute a rigorous upper bound on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Tobias Jawecki , Winfried Auzinger , Othmar Koch

An efficient Krylov subspace algorithm for computing actions of the $\varphi$ matrix function for large matrices is proposed. This matrix function is widely used in exponential time integration, Markov chains and network analysis and many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Mike A. Botchev , Leonid A. Knizhnerman , Eugene E. Tyrtyshnikov

This work is concerned with approximating matrix functions for banded matrices, hierarchically semiseparable matrices, and related structures. We develop a new divide-and-conquer method based on (rational) Krylov subspace methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Alice Cortinovis , Daniel Kressner , Stefano Massei

The resolvent Krylov subspace method builds approximations to operator functions $f(A)$ times a vector $v$. For the semigroup and related operator functions, this method is proved to possess the favorable property that the convergence is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Volker Grimm , Tanja Göckler

The numerical computation of matrix functions such as $f(A)V$, where $A$ is an $n\times n$ large and sparse square matrix, $V$ is an $n \times p$ block with $p\ll n$ and $f$ is a nonlinear matrix function, arises in various applications…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 A. H. Bentbib , M. El Ghomari , K. Jbilou

Many scientific applications require the evaluation of the action of the matrix function over a vector and the most common methods for this task are those based on the Krylov subspace. Since the orthogonalization cost and memory requirement…

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Krylov subspace methods are a ubiquitous tool for computing near-optimal rank $k$ approximations of large matrices. While "large block" Krylov methods with block size at least $k$ give the best known theoretical guarantees, block size one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Raphael A. Meyer , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

We present two algorithms for constructing orthonormal bases of rational function vectors with respect to a discrete inner product, and discuss how to use them for a rational approximation problem. Building on the pencil-based formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Robbe Vermeiren

Krylov subspace methods for approximating a matrix function $f(A)$ times a vector $v$ are analyzed in this paper. For the Arnoldi approximation to $e^{-\tau A}v$, two reliable a posteriori error estimates are derived from the new bounds and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Zhongxiao Jia , Hui Lv

Randomized orthogonal projection methods (ROPMs) can be used to speed up the computation of Krylov subspace methods in various contexts. Through a theoretical and numerical investigation, we establish that these methods produce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Edouard Timsit , Laura Grigori , Oleg Balabanov

We develop and analyze an inexact regularized alternating projection method for nonconvex feasibility problems. Such a method employs inexact projections on one of the two sets, according to a set of well-defined conditions. We prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Stefania Bellavia , Simone Rebegoldi , Mattia Silei

We show how rational function approximations to the logarithm, such as $\log z \approx (z^2 - 1)/(z^2 + 6z + 1)$, can be turned into fast algorithms for approximating the determinant of a very large matrix. We empirically demonstrate that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Thomas Colthurst , Srinivas Vasudevan , James Lottes , Brian Patton

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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Cecilia Chen , John Urschel