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The computation of approximating e^tA B, where A is a large sparse matrix and B is a rectangular matrix, serves as a crucial element in numerous scientific and engineering calculations. A powerful way to consider this problem is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-29 H. Barkouki , A. H. Bentbib , K. Jbilou

We consider the approximation of $B^T (A+sI)^{-1} B$ for large s.p.d. $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ with dense spectrum and $B\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$, $p\ll n$. We target the computations of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transfer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Vladimir Druskin , Jörn Zimmerling

The zero-temperature single-particle Green's function of correlated fermion models with moderately large Hilbert-space dimensions can be calculated by means of Krylov-space techniques. The conventional Lanczos approach consists of finding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-22 Matthias Balzer , Nadine Gdaniec , Michael Potthoff

The Lanczos method with implicit restarting is one of the most popular methods for finding a few exterior eigenpairs of a large symmetric matrix $A$. Usually based on polynomial filtering, restarting is crucial to limit memory and the cost…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Angelo A. Casulli , Daniel Kressner , Nian Shao

We propose inexact subspace iteration for solving high-dimensional eigenvalue problems with low-rank structure. Inexactness stems from low-rank compression, enabling efficient representation of high-dimensional vectors in a low-rank tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Alec Dektor , Peter DelMastro , Erika Ye , Roel Van Beeumen , Chao Yang

Good approximate eigenstates of a Hamiltionian operator which poesses a point as well as a continuous spectrum have beeen obtained using the Lanczos algorithm. Iterating with the bare Hamiltonian operator yields spurious solutions which can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-09 J. A. Secrest , J. M. Conroy , H. G. Miller

The starting point of this paper is that a spectral method is essentially a combination of an orthonormal basis of the underlying Hilbert space with Galerkin conditions. The choice of an orthonormal basis depends on a number of desirable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Arieh Iserles , Marcus Webb

An iterative algorithm is presented for solving the RPA equations of linear response. The method optimally computes the energy-weighted moments of the strength function, allowing one to match the computational effort to the intrinsic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. W. Johnson , G. F. Bertsch , W. D. Hazelton

We establish a direct correspondence between the Lanczos approach and the orthogonal polynomials approach in random matrix theory. In the large-$N$ and continuum limits, the average Lanczos coefficients and the recursion coefficients become…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Le-Chen Qu

Objectives involving bilinear forms $u^\top f(A(\theta))v$ for Hermitian $A$ arise widely in scientific computing and probabilistic machine learning. For large matrices, Lanczos efficiently approximates these quantities, but differentiating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Navjot Singh , Kipton Barros , Xiaoye Sherry Li

We give a novel spectral approximation algorithm for the balanced separator problem that, given a graph G, a constant balance b \in (0,1/2], and a parameter \gamma, either finds an \Omega(b)-balanced cut of conductance O(\sqrt(\gamma)) in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Lorenzo Orecchia , Sushant Sachdeva , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

A generalized skew-symmetric Lanczos bidiagonalization (GSSLBD) method is proposed to compute several extreme eigenpairs of a large matrix pair $(A,B)$, where $A$ is skew-symmetric and $B$ is symmetric positive definite. The underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Jinzhi Huang

Inhomogeneous dynamical mean-field theory has been employed to solve many interesting strongly interacting problems from transport in multilayered devices to the properties of ultracold atoms in a trap. The main computational step,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-17 Pierre Carrier , Jok M. Tang , Yousef Saad , James K. Freericks

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

An outstanding problem when computing a function of a matrix, $f(A)$, by using a Krylov method is to accurately estimate errors when convergence is slow. Apart from the case of the exponential function which has been extensively studied in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Jie Chen , Yousef Saad

The $k$-step Lanczos bidiagonalization reduces a matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ into a bidiagonal form $B_k\in\mathbb{R}^{(k+1)\times k}$ while generates two orthonormal matrices $U_{k+1}\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times (k+1)}$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Haibo Li , Guangming Tan , Tong Zhao

The Graphical Lasso (GLasso) algorithm is fast and widely used for estimating sparse precision matrices (Friedman et al., 2008). Its central role in the literature of high-dimensional covariance estimation rivals that of Lasso regression…

Computation · Statistics 2024-03-20 Aramayis Dallakyan , Mohsen Pourahmadi

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

In an unnormalized Krylov subspace framework for solving symmetric systems of linear equations, the orthogonal vectors that are generated by a Lanczos process are not necessarily on the form of gradients. Associating each orthogonal vector…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Anders Forsgren , Tove Odland

We study the universal properties of the Lanczos algorithm applied to finite-size many-body quantum systems. Focusing on autocorrelation functions of local operators and on their infinite-time behaviour at finite size, we conjecture that in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Luca Capizzi , Leonardo Mazza , Sara Murciano