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Lanczos-type algorithms are well known for their inherent instability. They typically breakdown when relevant orthogonal polynomials do not exist. Current approaches to avoiding breakdown rely on jumping over the non-existent polynomials to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Muhammad Farooq , Abdellah Salhi

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

Recent years have witnessed intense development of randomized methods for low-rank approximation. These methods target principal component analysis (PCA) and the calculation of truncated singular value decompositions (SVD). The present…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-02 Arthur Szlam , Yuval Kluger , Mark Tygert

Matrix completion is a problem that arises in many data-analysis settings where the input consists of a partially-observed matrix (e.g., recommender systems, traffic matrix analysis etc.). Classical approaches to matrix completion assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Natali Ruchansky , Mark Crovella , Evimaria Terzi

We consider the approximation of $B^T (A+sI)^{-1} B$ where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is large, symmetric positive definite, and has a dense spectrum, and $B\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$, $p\ll n$. Our target application is the computation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jörn Zimmerling , Vladimir Druskin

The Arnoldi process provides an efficient framework for approximating functions of a matrix applied to a vector, i.e., of the form $f(M)\bm{b}$, by repeated matrix-vector multiplications. In this paper, we derive error estimates for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 James H. Adler , Xiaozhe Hu , Wenxiao Pan , Zhongqin Xue

Monte Carlo is a versatile and frequently used tool in statistical physics and beyond. Correspondingly, the number of algorithms and variants reported in the literature is vast, and an overview is not easy to achieve. In this pedagogical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-04 Michael Kastner

We present a method to approximate functionals $\text{Tr} \, f(A)$ of very high-dimensional hermitian matrices $A$ represented as Matrix Product Operators (MPOs). Our method is based on a reformulation of a block Lanczos algorithm in tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Moritz August , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Thomas Huckle

We propose a new concept of a relatively inexact stochastic subgradient and present novel first-order methods that can use such objects to approximately solve convex optimization problems in relative scale. An important example where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Yurii Nesterov , Anton Rodomanov

The time-ordered exponential of a time-dependent matrix $\mathsf{A}(t)$ is defined as the function of $\mathsf{A}(t)$ that solves the first-order system of coupled linear differential equations with non-constant coefficients encoded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Pierre-Louis Giscard , Stefano Pozza

Lattices are a popular field of study in mathematical research, but also in more practical areas like cryptology or multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. In mathematical theory, most often lattices over real numbers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Sebastian Stern , Cong Ling , Robert F. H. Fischer

Matrix concentration inequalities and their recently discovered sharp counterparts provide powerful tools to bound the spectrum of random matrices whose entries are linear functions of independent random variables. However, in many…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Afonso S. Bandeira , Kevin Lucca , Petar Nizić-Nikolac , Ramon van Handel

We consider a wide range of matrix models and study them using the Monte Carlo technique in the large $N$ limit. The results we obtain agree with exact analytic expressions and recent numerical bootstrap methods for models with one and two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-05 Raghav G. Jha

We seek to approximate a composite function h(x) = g(f(x)) with a global polynomial. The standard approach chooses points x in the domain of f and computes h(x) at each point, which requires an evaluation of f and an evaluation of g. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Paul G. Constantine , Eric T. Phipps

The present review will focus on recent development of exact-diagonali- zation (ED) methods that use Lanczos algorithm to transform large sparse matrices onto the tridiagonal form. We begin with a review of basic principles of the Lanczos…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-21 P. Prelovsek , J. Bonca

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

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the emerging field of AI for mathematics. It covers the core principles and diverse applications of using artificial intelligence to advance mathematical research. Through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoyang Chen , Xiaoyang Chen

The Lanczos method is one of the standard approaches for computing a few eigenpairs of a large, sparse, symmetric matrix. It is typically used with restarting to avoid unbounded growth of memory and computational requirements. Thick-restart…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Lingfei Wu , Fei Xue , Andreas Stathopoulos

Matrix approximation is a common tool in machine learning for building accurate prediction models for recommendation systems, text mining, and computer vision. A prevalent assumption in constructing matrix approximations is that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-16 Joonseok Lee , Seungyeon Kim , Guy Lebanon , Yoram Singer

This article reviews the application of advanced Monte Carlo techniques in the context of Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC). MLMC is a strategy employed to compute expectations which can be biased in some sense, for instance, by using the…

Computation · Statistics 2017-04-25 Ajay Jasra , Kody Law , Carina Suciu