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We study the stability of the Lanczos algorithm run on problems whose eigenvector empirical spectral distribution is near to a reference measure with well-behaved orthogonal polynomials. We give a backwards stability result which can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Tyler Chen , Thomas Trogdon

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trigonometric formulas for eigenvalues of $3 \times 3$ matrices that build on Cardano's and Vi\`ete's work on algebraic solutions of the cubic are numerically unstable for matrices with repeated eigenvalues. This work presents numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Michal Habera , Andreas Zilian

This paper proposes a harmonic Lanczos bidiagonalization method for computing some interior singular triplets of large matrices. It is shown that the approximate singular triplets are convergent if a certain Rayleigh quotient matrix is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Datian Niu , Xuegang Yuan

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

Lanczos-based methods have become standard tools for tasks involving matrix functions. Progress on these algorithms has been driven by several largely disjoint communities, resulting many innovative and important advancements which would…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Tyler Chen

The randomized Kaczmarz method and its accelerated variants are a powerful class of iterative methods for solving large-scale linear systems, offering guaranteed convergence with low per-iteration cost. However, their numerical stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Michał Dereziński , Ethan N. Epperly , Deanna Needell , Alexander Xue

The Golub-Welsch algorithm [ Math. Comp., 23: 221-230 (1969)] has long been assumed symmetric for estimating quadratic forms. Recent research indicates that asymmetric quadrature nodes may be more often and the existence of a practical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Wenhao Li , Zongyuan Han , Shengxin Zhu

The work reported in this article presents a high-order, stable, and efficient Gegenbauer pseudospectral method to solve numerically a wide variety of mathematical models. The proposed numerical scheme exploits the stability and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Kareem T. Elgindy

Compared to the classical Lanczos algorithm, the $s$-step Lanczos variant has the potential to improve performance by asymptotically decreasing the synchronization cost per iteration. However, this comes at a cost. Despite being…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Erin Carson , Tomáš Gergelits

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 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

An outstanding problem when computing a function of a matrix, $f(A)$, by using a Krylov method is to accurately estimate errors when convergence is slow. Apart from the case of the exponential function which has been extensively studied in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Jie Chen , Yousef Saad

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

We show that the standard Lanczos algorithm can be efficiently implemented statistically and self consistently improved, using the stochastic reconfigurat ion method, which has been recently introduced to stabilize the Monte Carlo sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-05 S. Sorella
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