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The reductions of a square complex matrix A to its canonical forms under transformations of similarity, congruence, or *congruence are unstable operations: these canonical forms and reduction transformations depend discontinuously on the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Lena Klimenko , Vladimir V. Sergeichuk

In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

We give a spectral algorithm for decomposing overcomplete order-4 tensors, so long as their components satisfy an algebraic non-degeneracy condition that holds for nearly all (all but an algebraic set of measure $0$) tensors over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Samuel B. Hopkins , Tselil Schramm , Jonathan Shi

Objectives involving bilinear forms $u^\top f(A(\theta))v$ for Hermitian $A$ arise widely in scientific computing and probabilistic machine learning. For large matrices, Lanczos efficiently approximates these quantities, but differentiating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Navjot Singh , Kipton Barros , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Let M be a random (alpha n) x n matrix of rank r<<n, and assume that a uniformly random subset E of its entries is observed. We describe an efficient algorithm that reconstructs M from |E| = O(rn) observed entries with relative root mean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-09-17 Raghunandan H. Keshavan , Andrea Montanari , Sewoong Oh

We consider two kinds of problems: the computation of polynomial and rational solutions of linear recurrences with coefficients that are polynomials with integer coefficients; indefinite and definite summation of sequences that are…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2008-04-03 Alin Bostan , Frédéric Chyzak , Bruno Salvy , Thomas Cluzeau

LU-factorization of matrices is one of the fundamental algorithms of linear algebra. The widespread use of supercomputers with distributed memory requires a review of traditional algorithms, which were based on the common memory of a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Gennadi Malaschonok

The multiplicative update (MU) algorithm has been extensively used to estimate the basis and coefficient matrices in nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) problems under a wide range of divergences and regularizers. However, theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Renbo Zhao , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Determining the asymptotic algebraic complexity of matrix multiplication, succinctly represented by the matrix multiplication exponent $\omega$, is a central problem in algebraic complexity theory. The best upper bounds on $\omega$, leading…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Matthias Christandl , Péter Vrana , Jeroen Zuiddam

We describe the recursive algorithmic procedure to compute the stabilizers of the group of complex orthogonal matrices with respect to the action of similarity on the set of all symmetric matrices. Futhermore, lower bounds for dimensions of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Tadej Starčič

We propose an efficient algorithm for tensor PCA based on counting a specific family of weighted hypergraphs. For the order-$p$ tensor PCA problem where $p \geq 3$ is a fixed integer, we show that when the signal-to-noise ratio is $\lambda…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Zhangsong Li

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

Let $(a_n), (b_n)$ be linear recursive sequences of integers with characteristic polynomials $A(X),B(X)\in \mathbb{Z}[X]$ respectively. Assume that $A(X)$ has a dominating and simple real root $\alpha$, while $B(X)$ has a pair of conjugate…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Attila Pethő

We investigate infinitary wellfounded systems for linear logic with fixed points, with transfinite branching rules indexed by some closure ordinal $\alpha$ for fixed points. Our main result is that provability in the system for some…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Anupam Das , Tikhon Pshenitsyn

Tractability results for the model checking problem of logics yield powerful algorithmic meta theorems of the form: Every computational problem expressible in a logic $L$ can be solved efficiently on every class $\mathscr{C}$ of structures…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Sebastian Siebertz , Alexandre Vigny

We study pairs $(f, \Gamma)$ consisting of a non-Archimedean rational function $f$ and a finite set of vertices $\Gamma$ in the Berkovich projective line, under a certain stability hypothesis. We prove that stability can always be attained…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Laura DeMarco , Xander Faber , with an appendix by Jan Kiwi

In this paper, we propose a distributed computing approach to solving large-scale robust stability problems on the simplex. Our approach is to formulate the robust stability problem as an optimization problem with polynomial variables and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Reza Kamyar , Matthew M. Peet , Yulia Peet

We use an embedding of the symmetric $d$th power of any algebraic curve $C$ of genus $g$ into a Grassmannian space to give algorithms for working with divisors on $C$, using only linear algebra in vector spaces of dimension $O(g)$, and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kamal Khuri-Makdisi

Energy problems are important in the formal analysis of embedded or autonomous systems. Using recent results on star-continuous Kleene omega-algebras, we show here that energy problems can be solved by algebraic manipulations on the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Zoltán Ésik , Uli Fahrenberg , Axel Legay

A thorough backward stability analysis of Hotelling's deflation, an explicit external deflation procedure through low-rank updates for computing many eigenpairs of a symmetric matrix, is presented. Computable upper bounds of the loss of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Chao-Ping Lin , Ding Lu , Zhaojun Bai