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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…
Some important applicative problems require the evaluation of functions $\Psi$ of large and sparse and/or \emph{localized} matrices $A$. Popular and interesting techniques for computing $\Psi(A)$ and $\Psi(A)\mathbf{v}$, where $\mathbf{v}$…
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…
The aim of this work is to develop a fast algorithm for approximating the matrix function $f(A)$ of a square matrix $A$ that is symmetric and has hierarchically semiseparable (HSS) structure. Appearing in a wide variety of applications,…
We present a novel class of methods to compute functions of matrices or their action on vectors that are suitable for parallel programming. Solving appropriate simple linear systems of equations in parallel (or computing the inverse of…
Hessenberg decomposition is the basic tool used in computational linear algebra to approximate the eigenvalues of a matrix. In this article, we generalize Hessenberg decomposition to continuous matrix fields over topological spaces. This…
A new method to represent and approximate rotation matrices is introduced. The method represents approximations of a rotation matrix $Q$ with linearithmic complexity, i.e. with $\frac{1}{2}n\lg(n)$ rotations over pairs of coordinates,…
The computation of a matrix function $f(A)$ is an important task in scientific computing appearing in machine learning, network analysis and the solution of partial differential equations. In this work, we use only matrix-vector products…
Computation of the trace of a matrix function plays an important role in many scientific computing applications, including applications in machine learning, computational physics (e.g., lattice quantum chromodynamics), network analysis and…
Various numerical linear algebra problems can be formulated as evaluating bivariate function of matrices. The most notable examples are the Fr\'echet derivative along a direction, the evaluation of (univariate) functions of…
A sequence of approximations for the determinant and its logarithm of a complex matrixis derived, along with relative error bounds. The determinant approximations are derived from expansions of det(X)=exp(trace(log(X))), and they apply to…
In our previous works, we proved that the inverse of the stiffness matrix of an $h$-version finite element method (FEM) applied to scalar second order elliptic boundary value problems can be approximated at an exponential rate in the block…
Randomized sampling has recently been demonstrated to be an efficient technique for computing approximate low-rank factorizations of matrices for which fast methods for computing matrix vector products are available. This paper describes an…
Matrix functions are a central topic of linear algebra, and problems requiring their numerical approximation appear increasingly often in scientific computing. We review various limited-memory methods for the approximation of the action of…
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…
We consider the approximation of the inverse of the finite element stiffness matrix in the data sparse $\mathcal{H}$-matrix format. For a large class of shape regular but possibly non-uniform meshes including graded meshes, we prove that…
The computation of f(A)b, the action of a matrix function on a vector, is a task arising in many areas of scientific computing. In many applications, the matrix A is sparse but so large that only a rather small number of Krylov basis…
A widely used approach to compute the action $f(A)v$ of a matrix function $f(A)$ on a vector $v$ is to use a rational approximation $r$ for $f$ and compute $r(A)v$ instead. If $r$ is not computed adaptively as in rational Krylov methods,…
The computational cost of many signal processing and machine learning techniques is often dominated by the cost of applying certain linear operators to high-dimensional vectors. This paper introduces an algorithm aimed at reducing the…
We consider the task of approximating a matrix function $f(A)$, where $A$ is a matrix in which only a relatively small number of (not necessarily consecutive) sub- and superdiagonals contain nonzero entries. Approximating $f$ by a…