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Matrix exponential discriminant analysis (EDA) is a generalized discriminant analysis method based on matrix exponential. It can essentially overcome the intrinsic difficulty of small sample size problem that exists in the classical linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Gang Wu , Ting-ting Feng , Li-jia Zhang , Meng Yang

We consider the problem of preprocessing an $n\times n$ matrix $\mathbf{M}$, and supporting queries that, for any vector $v$, returns the matrix-vector product $\mathbf{M} v$. This problem has been extensively studied in both theory and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Emile Anand , Jan van den Brand , Rose McCarty

This paper provides a general solution for the Kronecker product decomposition (KPD) of vectors, matrices, and hypermatrices. First, an algorithm, namely, monic decomposition algorithm (MDA), is reviewed. It consists of a set of projections…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Daizhan Cheng

We introduce an algorithm for estimating the trace of a matrix function $f(\mathbf{A})$ using implicit products with a symmetric matrix $\mathbf{A}$. Existing methods for implicit trace estimation of a matrix function tend to treat…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Tyler Chen , Eric Hallman

Krylov subspace methods, such as the Conjugate Gradient (CG) and BiCGSTAB methods, are widely used in scientific computing for solving linear systems. In this study, we propose a new framework for solving large Sylvester equations in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yuki Satake , Takeshi Fukaya , Tomohiro Sogabe , Shao-Liang Zhang

Iterative solvers for large-scale linear systems such as Krylov subspace methods can diverge when the linear system is ill-conditioned, thus significantly reducing the applicability of these iterative methods in practice for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vasileios Kalantzis , Mark S. Squillante , Chai Wah Wu

In this work, we propose a reduced basis method for efficient solution of parametric linear systems. The coefficient matrix is assumed to be a linear matrix-valued function that is symmetric and positive definite for admissible values of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Antti Autio , Antti Hannukainen

We consider the problem of approximating the von Neumann entropy of a large, sparse, symmetric positive semidefinite matrix $A$, defined as $\operatorname{tr}(f(A))$ where $f(x)=-x\log x$. After establishing some useful properties of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Michele Benzi , Michele Rinelli , Igor Simunec

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

Many optimization problems require hyperparameters, i.e., parameters that must be pre-specified in advance, such as regularization parameters and parametric regularizers in variational regularization methods for inverse problems, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Silvia Gazzola , Sebastian J. Scott

We consider the time and space required for quantum computers to solve a wide variety of problems involving matrices, many of which have only been analyzed classically in prior work. Our main results show that for a range of linear algebra…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Paul Beame , Niels Kornerup , Michael Whitmeyer

Krylov subspace methods are a powerful family of iterative solvers for linear systems of equations, which are commonly used for inverse problems due to their intrinsic regularization properties. Moreover, these methods are naturally suited…

Developing efficient solvers for large-scale multi-term linear matrix equations remains a central challenge in numerical linear algebra and is still largely unresolved. This paper introduces a methodology leveraging CUR decomposition for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Saeed Akbari , Damiano Lombardi , Hessam Babaee

We consider the matrix completion problem where the aim is to esti-mate a large data matrix for which only a relatively small random subset of its entries is observed. Quite popular approaches to matrix completion problem are iterative…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Olga Klopp

In this paper, we present a generalized version of the matrix chain algorithm to generate efficient code for linear algebra problems, a task for which human experts often invest days or even weeks of works. The standard matrix chain problem…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Henrik Barthels , Marcin Copik , Paolo Bientinesi

Hierarchical matrices provide a highly memory-efficient way of storing dense linear operators arising, for example, from boundary element methods, particularly when stored in the H^2 format. In such data-sparse representations, iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Sven Christophersen

Boundary element methods produce dense linear systems that can be accelerated via multipole expansions. Solved with Krylov methods, this implies computing the matrix-vector products within each iteration with some error, at an accuracy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Tingyu Wang , Simon K. Layton , Lorena A. Barba

The supporting vectors of a matrix A are the solutions of max || x ||_2 =1 {||Ax||_2^2}. The generalized supporting vectors of matrices A_1 , . . . , A_k are the solutions of max || x ||_2 =1 {||A_1x||_2^2 + ||A_2x||_2^2 + ... +…

In the present paper, we present some numerical methods for computing approximate solutions to some large differential linear matrix equations. In the first part of this work, we deal with differential generalized Sylvester matrix equations…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-28 M. Hached , K. Jbilou

Krylov methods rely on iterated matrix-vector products $A^k u_j$ for an $n\times n$ matrix $A$ and vectors $u_1,\ldots,u_m$. The space spanned by all iterates $A^k u_j$ admits a particular basis -- the \emph{maximal Krylov basis} -- which…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Vincent Neiger , Clément Pernet , Gilles Villard