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In this paper we propose and analyze an algorithm for identifying spectral gaps of a real symmetric matrix $A$ by simultaneously approximating the traces of spectral projectors associated with multiple different spectral slices. Our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Michele Benzi , Michele Rinelli , Igor Simunec

The trace $\tr(q(\ma{L} + q\ma{I})^{-1})$, where $\ma{L}$ is a symmetric diagonally dominant matrix, is the quantity of interest in some machine learning problems. However, its direct computation is impractical if the matrix size is large.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Yusuf Yigit Pilavci , Pierre-Olivier Amblard , Simon Barthelme , Nicolas Tremblay

Consider the problem of estimating the entries of a large matrix, when the observed entries are noisy versions of a small random fraction of the original entries. This problem has received widespread attention in recent times, especially…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Sourav Chatterjee

We present a randomized algorithm for producing a quasi-optimal hierarchically semi-separable (HSS) approximation to an $N\times N$ matrix $A$ using only matrix-vector products with $A$ and $A^T$. We prove that, using $O(k \log(N/k))$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Noah Amsel , Tyler Chen , Feyza Duman Keles , Diana Halikias , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , David Persson

The Matrix-based Renyi's entropy enables us to directly measure information quantities from given data without the costly probability density estimation of underlying distributions, thus has been widely adopted in numerous statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-17 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Shujian Yu , Chen Li

Efficient matrix trace estimation is essential for scalable computation of log-determinants, matrix norms, and distributional divergences. In many large-scale applications, the matrices involved are too large to store or access in full,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Kingsley Yeon , Promit Ghosal , Mihai Anitescu

Finding a good approximation of the top eigenvector of a given $d\times d$ matrix $A$ is a basic and important computational problem, with many applications. We give two different quantum algorithms that, given query access to the entries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Yanlin Chen , András Gilyén , Ronald de Wolf

In recent years, various subspace algorithms have been developed to handle large-scale optimization problems. Although existing subspace Newton methods require fewer iterations to converge in practice, the matrix operations and full…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Taisei Miyaishi , Ryota Nozawa , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

We present randomized algorithms for estimating the trace and deter- minant of Hermitian positive semi-definite matrices. The algorithms are based on subspace iteration, and access the matrix only through matrix vector products. We analyse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Arvind K. Saibaba , Alen Alexanderian , Ilse C. F. Ipsen

Understanding the singular value spectrum of a matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ is a fundamental task in countless applications. In matrix multiplication time, it is possible to perform a full SVD and directly compute the singular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Cameron Musco , Praneeth Netrapalli , Aaron Sidford , Shashanka Ubaru , David P. Woodruff

We present a new heuristic point-to-point routing algorithm based on contraction hierarchies (CH). Given an epsilon >= 0, we can prove that the length of the path computed by our algorithm is at most (1+epsilon) times the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-05 Robert Geisberger

This paper studies the problem of finding an $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate solution to positive semidefinite programs. These are semidefinite programs in which all matrices in the constraints and objective are positive semidefinite and all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Richard Peng , Kanat Tangwongsan , Peng Zhang

We study the problem of approximating a matrix $\mathbf{A}$ with a matrix that has a fixed sparsity pattern (e.g., diagonal, banded, etc.), when $\mathbf{A}$ is accessed only by matrix-vector products. We describe a simple randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Noah Amsel , Tyler Chen , Feyza Duman Keles , Diana Halikias , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

This work presents a novel matrix-based method for constructing an approximation Hessian using only function evaluations. The method requires less computational power than interpolation-based methods and is easy to implement in matrix-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-07 W. Hare , G. Jarry-Bolduc , C. Planiden

Methods for stochastic trace estimation often require the repeated evaluation of expressions of the form $z^T p_n(A)z$, where $A$ is a symmetric matrix and $p_n$ is a degree $n$ polynomial written in the standard or Chebyshev basis. We show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Eric Hallman

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Wenhao Li , Yixuan Huang , Shengxin Zhu

In this paper we present a new algorithm for computing a low rank approximation of the product $A^TB$ by taking only a single pass of the two matrices $A$ and $B$. The straightforward way to do this is to (a) first sketch $A$ and $B$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-27 Shanshan Wu , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Sujay Sanghavi , Alexandros G. Dimakis

This paper describes a suite of algorithms for constructing low-rank approximations of an input matrix from a random linear image of the matrix, called a sketch. These methods can preserve structural properties of the input matrix, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

This paper studies an optimization problem on the sum of traces of matrix quadratic forms in $m$ semi-orthogonal matrices, which can be considered as a generalization of the synchronization of rotations. While the problem is nonconvex, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Joong-Ho Won , Teng Zhang , Hua Zhou

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