Related papers: Numerical Stability of Lanczos Methods
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…
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-$k$…
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…
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.…
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 :…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…