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Evaluating the action of a matrix function on a vector, that is $x=f(\mathcal M)v$, is an ubiquitous task in applications. When $\mathcal M$ is large, one usually relies on Krylov projection methods. In this paper, we provide effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Stefano Massei , Leonardo Robol

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Insu Han , Dmitry Malioutov , Haim Avron , Jinwoo Shin

Prior recent work, devoted to the study of polynomial Krylov techniques for the approximation of the action of the matrix exponential ${\rm e}^{tA}v$, is extended to the case of associated $\varphi$-functions (which occur within the class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Tobias Jawecki

This work is concerned with approximating matrix functions for banded matrices, hierarchically semiseparable matrices, and related structures. We develop a new divide-and-conquer method based on (rational) Krylov subspace methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Alice Cortinovis , Daniel Kressner , Stefano Massei

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Majed Hamadi , Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri , Marcel Schweitzer

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Stefan Güttel , Marcel Schweitzer

Bivariate matrix functions provide a unified framework for various tasks in numerical linear algebra, including the solution of linear matrix equations and the application of the Fr\'echet derivative. In this work, we propose a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Daniel Kressner

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

This survey explores modern approaches for computing low-rank approximations of high-dimensional matrices by means of the randomized SVD, randomized subspace iteration, and randomized block Krylov iteration. The paper compares the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber

We present a novel Krylov subspace method for approximating $L_f(A, E) \vc{b}$, the matrix-vector product of the Fr\'echet derivative $L_f(A, E)$ of a large-scale matrix function $f(A)$ in direction $E$, a task that arises naturally in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Daniel Kressner , Peter Oehme

A Krylov subspace recycling method for the efficient evaluation of a sequence of matrix functions acting on a set of vectors is developed. The method improves over the recycling methods presented in [Burke et al., arXiv:2209.14163, 2022] in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Liam Burke , Stefan Güttel

Low-rank Krylov methods are one of the few options available in the literature to address the numerical solution of large-scale general linear matrix equations. These routines amount to well-known Krylov schemes that have been equipped with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Davide Palitta , Patrick Kürschner

Frequent Directions, as a deterministic matrix sketching technique, has been proposed for tackling low-rank approximation problems. This method has a high degree of accuracy and practicality, but experiences a lot of computational cost for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Chenhao Wang , Qianxin Yi , Xiuwu Liao , Yao Wang

Thanks to its great potential in reducing both computational cost and memory requirements, combining sketching and Krylov subspace techniques has attracted a lot of attention in the recent literature on projection methods for linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Davide Palitta , Marcel Schweitzer , Valeria Simoncini

In the present paper, we propose Krylov-based methods for solving large-scale differential Sylvester matrix equations having a low rank constant term. We present two new approaches for solving such differential matrix equations. The first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-10 M. Hached , K. Jbilou

We study the problem of computing a rank-$k$ approximation of a matrix using randomized block Krylov iteration. Prior work has shown that, for block size $b = 1$ or $b = k$, a $(1 + \varepsilon)$-factor approximation to the best rank-$k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tyler Chen , Ethan N. Epperly , Raphael A. Meyer , Christopher Musco , Akash Rao

We describe a new method to map the requested error tolerance on an H-matrix approximation to the block error tolerances. Numerical experiments show that the method produces more efficient approximations than the standard method for kernels…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-10-14 Andrew M. Bradley

In this paper, we present new a posteriori and a priori error bounds for the Krylov subspace methods for computing $e^{-\tau A}v$ for a given $\tau>0$ and $v \in C^n$, where $A$ is a large sparse non-Hermitian matrix. The {\em a priori}…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Hao Wang , Qiang Ye

This article is concerned with Monte-Carlo methods for the estimation of the trace of an implicitly given matrix $A$ whose information is only available through matrix-vector products. Such a method approximates the trace by an average of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Uri Ascher

We consider an effective new method for solving trust-region and norm-regularization problems that arise as subproblems in many optimization applications. We show that the solutions to such subproblems effectively lie in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hussam Al Daas , Nicholas I. M. Gould