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Publications (17)

math.NA2021

Randomized algorithms for rounding in the Tensor-Train format

Hussam Al Daas, Grey Ballard, Paul Cazeaux +5

The Tensor-Train (TT) format is a highly compact low-rank representation for high-dimensional tensors. TT is particularly useful when representing approximations to the solutions o…

astro-ph.CO2012

On The Road To More Realistic Galaxy Cluster Simulations: The Effects of Radiative Cooling and Thermal Feedback Prescriptions on the Observational Properties of Simulated Galaxy Clusters

Stephen Skory, Eric Hallman, Jack O. Burns +3

Flux limited X-ray surveys of galaxy clusters show that clusters come in two roughly equally proportioned varieties: "cool core" clusters (CCs) and non-"cool core" clusters (NCCs).…

math.NA2025

Two Variations on the XTrace Algorithm

Eric Hallman

This paper studies two potential modifications of XTrace (Epperly et al., SIMAX 45(1):1-23, 2024), a randomized algorithm for estimating the trace of a matrix. The first is a varia…

math.NA2022

Monte Carlo Methods for Estimating the Diagonal of a Real Symmetric Matrix

Eric Hallman, Ilse C. F. Ipsen, Arvind Saibaba

For real symmetric matrices that are accessible only through matrix vector products, we present Monte Carlo estimators for computing the diagonal elements. Our probabilistic bounds…

astro-ph.CO2016

Length Scales and Turbulent Properties of Magnetic Fields in Simulated Galaxy Clusters

Hilary Egan, Brian W. O'Shea, Eric Hallman +5

Additional physics beyond standard hydrodynamics is needed to fully model the intracluster medium (ICM); however, as we move to more sophisticated models, it is important to consid…

math.NA2021

A Multilevel Approach to Stochastic Trace Estimation

Eric Hallman, Devon Troester

This article presents a randomized matrix-free method for approximating the trace of , where is a large symmetric matrix and is a function analytic in a c…

math.NA2022

Precision-aware Deterministic and Probabilistic Error Bounds for Floating Point Summation

Eric Hallman, Ilse C. F. Ipsen

We analyze the forward error in the floating point summation of real numbers, for computations in low precision or extreme-scale problem dimensions that push the limits of the prec…

astro-ph2003

Cosmological Shock Waves and Their Role in the Large Scale Structure of the Universe

Dongsu Ryu, Hyesung Kang, Eric Hallman +1

We study the properties of cosmological shock waves identified in high-resolution, N-body/hydrodynamic simulations of a CDM universe and their role on thermalization of gas and…

astro-ph2004

Chandra Observation of the Merging Cluster A168: A Late Stage in the Evolution of a Cold Front

Eric Hallman, Maxim Markevitch

We present Chandra observations of the cool cluster A168, for which previous X-ray imaging and optical studies indicated a merger of two subclusters nearly in the plane of the sky.…

math.ST2024

Extremal bounds for Gaussian trace estimation

Eric Hallman

This work derives extremal tail bounds for the Gaussian trace estimator applied to a real symmetric matrix. We define a partial ordering on the eigenvalues, so that when a matrix h…

math.NA2021

Faster Stochastic Trace Estimation with a Chebyshev Product Identity

Eric Hallman

Methods for stochastic trace estimation often require the repeated evaluation of expressions of the form , where is a symmetric matrix and is a degree po…

math.NA2021

A Refined Probabilistic Error Bound for Sums

Eric Hallman

This paper considers a probabilistic model for floating-point computation in which the roundoff errors are represented by bounded random variables with mean zero. Using this model,…

math.NA2021

A Block Bidiagonalization Method for Fixed-Accuracy Low-Rank Matrix Approximation

Eric Hallman

We present randUBV, a randomized algorithm for matrix sketching based on the block Lanzcos bidiagonalization process. Given a matrix , it produces a low-rank approximation…

cs.LG2026

Humanity's Last Exam

Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han +1144

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achi…

math.NA2023

Krylov-aware stochastic trace estimation

Tyler Chen, Eric Hallman

We introduce an algorithm for estimating the trace of a matrix function using implicit products with a symmetric matrix . Existing methods for implicit…

math.NA2021

Deterministic and Probabilistic Error Bounds for Floating Point Summation Algorithms

Eric Hallman, Ilse C. F. Ipsen

We analyse the forward error in the floating point summation of real numbers, from algorithms that do not require recourse to higher precision or better hardware. We derive informa…

math.NA2026

A Variational Equation and Lower Bound for the Linear Least-Squares Backward Error

Eric Hallman

This paper derives a new variational equation for the linear least-squares backward error by expressing the backward error in terms of a generalized eigenvalue problem and using re…