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For linear inverse problems with a large number of unknown parameters, uncertainty quantification remains a challenging task. In this work, we use Krylov subspace methods to approximate the posterior covariance matrix and describe efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Arvind K. Saibaba , Julianne Chung , Katrina Petroske

Randomized Krylov subspace methods that employ the sketch-and-solve paradigm to substantially reduce orthogonalization cost have recently shown great promise in speeding up computations for many core linear algebra tasks (e.g., solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Emil Krieger , Marcel Schweitzer

The overlap Dirac operator in lattice QCD requires the computation of the sign function of a matrix. While this matrix is usually Hermitian, it becomes non-Hermitian in the presence of a quark chemical potential. We show how the action of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-02-09 J. Bloch , A. Frommer , B. Lang , T. Wettig

We recently introduced a method to approximate functions of Hermitian Matrix Product Operators or Tensor Trains that are of the form $\mathsf{Tr} f(A)$. Functions of this type occur in several applications, most notably in quantum physics.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Moritz August , Thomas Huckle

We evaluate the performance of the Krylov subspace method by using highly efficient multiple precision sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV). BNCpack is our multiple precision numerical computation library based on MPFR/GMP, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tomonori Kouya

We describe a randomized Krylov-subspace method for estimating the spectral condition number of a real matrix A or indicating that it is numerically rank deficient. The main difficulty in estimating the condition number is the estimation of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Haim Avron , Alex Druinsky , Sivan Toledo

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Angelo Alberto Casulli , Igor Simunec

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Lidia Aceto , Daniele Bertaccini , Fabio Durastante , Paolo Novati

Mixed-effects models are widely used to model data with hierarchical grouping structures and high-cardinality categorical predictor variables. However, for high-dimensional crossed random effects, current standard computations relying on…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-15 Pascal Kündig , Fabio Sigrist

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

Given a set of matrices, modeled as samples of a matrix-valued function, we suggest a method to approximate the underline function using a product approximation operator. This operator extends known approximation methods by exploiting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Nira Dyn , Uri Itai , Nir Sharon

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Julianne Chung , Silvia Gazzola

We present a novel method to compute the overlap Dirac operator at zero and nonzero quark chemical potential. To approximate the sign function of large, sparse matrices, standard methods project the operator on a much smaller Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-05-19 Jacques C. R. Bloch , Simon Heybrock

We study the connection between block Krylov subspaces and matrix orthogonal functions. Under a no-deflation assumption, we show that polynomial block Krylov subspaces are isometrically isomorphic to spaces of matrix polynomials of bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Michele Rinelli , Raf Vandebril

Randomized sketching is currently introduced into every area of numerical linear algebra. In Krylov subspace methods, it allows runtime savings at the cost of small accuracy reductions. This work offers a different view on sketching in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Kai Bergermann

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

The convergence property of a stochastic algorithm for the self-consistent field (SCF) calculations of electron structures is studied. The algorithm is formulated by rewriting the electron charges as a trace/diagonal of a matrix function,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li

We consider generalizations of the Sylvester matrix equation, consisting of the sum of a Sylvester operator and a linear operator $\Pi$ with a particular structure. More precisely, the commutator of the matrix coefficients of the operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Elias Jarlebring , Giampaolo Mele , Davide Palitta , Emil Ringh

In this paper, we propose a second order optimization method to learn models where both the dimensionality of the parameter space and the number of training samples is high. In our method, we construct on each iteration a Krylov subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-11-21 Oriol Vinyals , Daniel Povey

We study distributed low rank approximation in which the matrix to be approximated is only implicitly represented across the different servers. For example, each of $s$ servers may have an $n \times d$ matrix $A^t$, and we may be interested…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-29 David P. Woodruff , Peilin Zhong