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We provide more technical details about the HLIBCov package, which is using parallel hierarchical ($\H$-) matrices to identify unknown parameters of the covariance function (variance, smoothness, and covariance length). These parameters are…

Computation · Statistics 2019-05-02 Alexander Litvinenko

A new algorithm to approximate Hermitian matrices by positive semidefinite Hermitian matrices based on modified Cholesky decompositions is presented. In contrast to existing algorithms, this algorithm allows to specify bounds on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Joscha Reimer

We study the problem of estimating the trace of a matrix $A$ that can only be accessed through matrix-vector multiplication. We introduce a new randomized algorithm, Hutch++, which computes a $(1 \pm \epsilon)$ approximation to $tr(A)$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Raphael A. Meyer , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , David P. Woodruff

Leja points on a compact $K \subset \mathbb{C}$ are known to provide efficient points for interpolation, but their actual implementation can be computationally challenging. So-called pseudo Leja points are a more tractable solution, yet…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Camille Pouchol

This paper focuses on exploring the sparsity of the inverse covariance matrix $\bSigma^{-1}$, or the precision matrix. We form blocks of parameters based on each off-diagonal band of the Cholesky factor from its modified Cholesky…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-05-27 Clifford Lam

In Statistics, log-concave density estimation is a central problem within the field of nonparametric inference under shape constraints. Despite great progress in recent years on the statistical theory of the canonical estimator, namely the…

Computation · Statistics 2023-03-01 Wenyu Chen , Rahul Mazumder , Richard J. Samworth

Calculating the log-determinant of a matrix is useful for statistical computations used in machine learning, such as generative learning which uses the log-determinant of the covariance matrix to calculate the log-likelihood of model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Xiaomeng Dong , EN Barnett , Sudarshan K. Dhall

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

The numerical integration of stiff equations is a challenging problem that needs to be approached by specialized numerical methods. Exponential integrators form a popular class of such methods since they are provably robust to stiffness and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Benjamin Carrel , Bart Vandereycken

Algorithms involving Gaussian processes or determinantal point processes typically require computing the determinant of a kernel matrix. Frequently, the latter is computed from the Cholesky decomposition, an algorithm of cubic complexity in…

Computation · Statistics 2021-07-23 Simon Bartels , Wouter Boomsma , Jes Frellsen , Damien Garreau

The modified Cholesky decomposition is commonly used for precision matrix estimation given a specified order of random variables. However, the order of variables is often not available or cannot be pre-determined. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-23 Xiaoning Kang , Xinwei Deng

We consider the approximation of $B^T (A+sI)^{-1} B$ for large s.p.d. $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ with dense spectrum and $B\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$, $p\ll n$. We target the computations of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transfer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Vladimir Druskin , Jörn Zimmerling

Currently, existing tensor recovery methods fail to recognize the impact of tensor scale variations on their structural characteristics. Furthermore, existing studies face prohibitive computational costs when dealing with large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wenjin Qin , Hailin Wang , Jingyao Hou , Jianjun Wang

Evaluating the log determinant of a positive definite matrix is ubiquitous in machine learning. Applications thereof range from Gaussian processes, minimum-volume ellipsoids, metric learning, kernel learning, Bayesian neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Diego Granziol , Edward Wagstaff , Bin Xin Ru , Michael Osborne , Stephen Roberts

The estimation of a precision matrix is a crucial problem in various research fields, particularly when working with high dimensional data. In such settings, the most common approach is to use the penalized maximum likelihood. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-10 Vahe Avagyan

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

In this paper, we investigate the application of exponential integrators to advection-dominated problems. We focus on Krylov subspace and Leja interpolation methods to compute the action of exponential and related matrix functions.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Thi Tam Dang , Trung Hau Hoang

We introduce a linear-scaling stochastic method to compute real-space maps of any positive local spectral operator in a tight-binding model. By employing positive-definite estimators, the sampling error at each site can be rigorously…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 H. P. Veiga , D. R. Pinheiro , J. P. Santos Pires , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes

We propose a new estimator for the high-dimensional linear regression model with observation error in the design where the number of coefficients is potentially larger than the sample size. The main novelty of our procedure is that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-09 Alexandre Belloni , Abhishek Kaul , Mathieu Rosenbaum

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a classical method for dimensionality reduction, where discriminant vectors are sought to project data to a lower dimensional space for optimal separability of classes. Several recent papers have…

Computation · Statistics 2022-03-04 Summer Atkins , Gudmundur Einarsson , Brendan Ames , Line Clemmensen