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We analyze the Lanczos method for matrix function approximation (Lanczos-FA), an iterative algorithm for computing $f(\mathbf{A}) \mathbf{b}$ when $\mathbf{A}$ is a Hermitian matrix and $\mathbf{b}$ is a given vector. Assuming that $f :…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Tyler Chen , Anne Greenbaum , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

In theory, the Lanczos algorithm generates an orthogonal basis of the corresponding Krylov subspace. However, in finite precision arithmetic, the orthogonality and linear independence of the computed Lanczos vectors is usually lost quickly.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Dorota Šimonová , Petr Tichý

Approximating the action of a matrix function $f(\mathbf{A})$ on a vector $\mathbf{b}$ is an increasingly important primitive in machine learning, data science, and statistics, with applications such as sampling high dimensional Gaussians,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Noah Amsel , Tyler Chen , Anne Greenbaum , Cameron Musco , Chris Musco

Lanczos-type algorithms are efficient and easy to implement. Unfortunately they breakdown frequently and well before convergence has been achieved. These algorithms are typically based on recurrence relations which involve formal orthogonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Muhammad Farooq , Abdellah Salhi

The ubiquitous Lanczos method can approximate $f(A)x$ for any symmetric $n \times n$ matrix $A$, vector $x$, and function $f$. In exact arithmetic, the method's error after $k$ iterations is bounded by the error of the best degree-$k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Aaron Sidford

The Lanczos method is one of the most powerful and fundamental techniques for solving an extremal symmetric eigenvalue problem. Convergence-based error estimates depend heavily on the eigenvalue gap. In practice, this gap is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-17 John C. Urschel

Recent work found that an analysis formalism based on the Lanczos algorithm allows energy levels to be extracted from Euclidean correlation functions with faster ground-state convergence than effective masses, convergent estimators for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-12 Daniel C. Hackett , Michael L. Wagman

The Lanczos algorithm, introduced by Cornelius Lanczos, has been known for a long time and is widely used in computational physics. While often employed to approximate extreme eigenvalues and eigenvectores of an operator, recently interest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-12 J. Eckseler , M. Pieper , J. Schnack

In her seminal 1989 work, Greenbaum demonstrated that the results produced by the finite precision Lanczos algorithm after $k$ iterations can be interpreted as exact Lanczos results applied to a larger matrix, whose eigenvalues lie in small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Dorota Šimonová , Petr Tichý

We extend the error bounds from [SIMAX, Vol. 43, Iss. 2, pp. 787-811 (2022)] for the Lanczos method for matrix function approximation to the block algorithm. Numerical experiments suggest that our bounds are fairly robust to changing block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Qichen Xu , Tyler Chen

This work introduces a method for determining the energy spectrum of lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) by applying the Lanczos algorithm to the transfer matrix and using a bootstrap generalization of the Cullum-Willoughby method to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-05-09 Michael L. Wagman

The Lanczos process constructs a sequence of orthonormal vectors v_m spanning a nested sequence of Krylov subspaces generated by a hermitian matrix A and some starting vector b. In this paper we show how to cheaply recover a secondary…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-04-22 A. Frommer , K. Kahl , Th. Lippert , H. Rittich

A common approach to approximating quadratic forms of matrix functions is to use a quadrature rule derived from the Lanczos process, known as a Lanczos quadrature. Although symmetric quadrature rules are computationally favorable, it has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Wenhao Li , Shengxin Zhu

We describe a Lanczos-based algorithm for approximating the product of a rational matrix function with a vector. This algorithm, which we call the Lanczos method for optimal rational matrix function approximation (Lanczos-OR), returns the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Tyler Chen , Anne Greenbaum , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

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

Matrix functions with potential applications have a major role in science and engineering. One of the fundamental matrix functions, which is particularly important due to its connections with certain matrix differential equations and other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Joao R. Cardoso , Amir Sadeghi

The low rank approximation of matrices is a crucial component in many data mining applications today. A competitive algorithm for this class of problems is the randomized block Lanczos algorithm - an amalgamation of the traditional block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Qiaochu Yuan , Ming Gu , Bo Li

Matrix operations such as matrix inversion, eigenvalue decomposition, singular value decomposition are ubiquitous in real-world applications. Unfortunately, many of these matrix operations so time and memory expensive that they are…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Shusen Wang

The purpose of this text is to provide an accessible introduction to a set of recently developed algorithms for factorizing matrices. These new algorithms attain high practical speed by reducing the dimensionality of intermediate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

In this work we introduce a memory-efficient method for computing the action of a Hermitian matrix function on a vector. Our method consists of a rational Lanczos algorithm combined with a basis compression procedure based on rational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Angelo A. Casulli , Igor Simunec
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