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Publications (34)

cs.DS2025

A simple analysis of a quantum-inspired algorithm for solving low-rank linear systems

Tyler Chen, Junhyung Lyle Kim, Archan Ray +3

We describe and analyze a simple algorithm for sampling from the solution to a linear system . We assume…

eess.SP2024

Large-scale Outdoor Cell-free mMIMO Channel Measurement in an Urban Scenario at 3.5 GHz

Yuning Zhang, Thomas Choi, Zihang Cheng +14

The design of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems requires accurate, measurement-based channel models. This paper provides the first results from the by far most extensive ou…

math.NA2023

Low-memory Krylov subspace methods for optimal rational matrix function approximation

Tyler Chen, Anne Greenbaum, Cameron Musco +1

We describe a Lanczos-based algorithm for approximating the product of a rational matrix function with a vector. This algorithm, which we call the Lanczos method for optimal ration…

math.NA2024

Nearly Optimal Approximation of Matrix Functions by the Lanczos Method

Noah Amsel, Tyler Chen, Anne Greenbaum +2

Approximating the action of a matrix function on a vector is an increasingly important primitive in machine learning, data science, and statistics, wit…

math.ST2021

Non-asymptotic moment bounds for random variables rounded to non-uniformly spaced sets

Tyler Chen

We study the effects of rounding on the moments of random variables. Specifically, given a random variable and its rounded counterpart , we study $|\mathb…

math.NA2026

Linear Systems and Eigenvalue Problems: Open Questions from a Simons Workshop

Noah Amsel, Yves Baumann, Paul Beckman +33

This document presents a series of open questions arising in matrix computations, i.e., the numerical solution of linear algebra problems. It is a result of working groups at the w…

math.NA2024

Randomized matrix-free quadrature: unified and uniform bounds for stochastic Lanczos quadrature and the kernel polynomial method

Tyler Chen, Thomas Trogdon, Shashanka Ubaru

We analyze randomized matrix-free quadrature algorithms for spectrum and spectral sum approximation. The algorithms studied include the kernel polynomial method and stochastic Lanc…

cs.DS2025

Query Efficient Structured Matrix Learning

Noah Amsel, Pratyush Avi, Tyler Chen +5

We study the problem of learning a structured approximation (low-rank, sparse, banded, etc.) to an unknown matrix given access to matrix-vector product (matvec) queries of the…

math.NA2022

Error bounds for Lanczos-based matrix function approximation

Tyler Chen, Anne Greenbaum, Cameron Musco +1

We analyze the Lanczos method for matrix function approximation (Lanczos-FA), an iterative algorithm for computing when is a Hermitian matri…

math.NA2023

Stability of the Lanczos algorithm on matrices with regular spectral distributions

Tyler Chen, Thomas Trogdon

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 polyno…

quant-ph2025

Provably faster randomized and quantum algorithms for -means clustering via uniform sampling

Tyler Chen, Archan Ray, Akshay Seshadri +6

The -means algorithm (Lloyd's algorithm) is a widely used method for clustering unlabeled data. A key bottleneck of the -means algorithm is that each iteration requires time…

cs.DS2024

Near-optimal hierarchical matrix approximation from matrix-vector products

Tyler Chen, Feyza Duman Keles, Diana Halikias +3

We describe a randomized algorithm for producing a near-optimal hierarchical off-diagonal low-rank (HODLR) approximation to an matrix , accessible only thou…

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

On the Convergence Rate of Variants of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm in Finite Precision Arithmetic

Anne Greenbaum, Hexuan Liu, Tyler Chen

We consider three mathematically equivalent variants of the conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm and how they perform in finite precision arithmetic. It was shown in [{\em Behavior of…

math.NA2024

Faster randomized partial trace estimation

Tyler Chen, Robert Chen, Kevin Li +3

We develop randomized matrix-free algorithms for estimating partial traces, a generalization of the trace arising in quantum physics and chemistry. Our algorithm improves on the ty…

quant-ph2023

Numerical computation of the equilibrium-reduced density matrix for strongly coupled open quantum systems

Tyler Chen, Yu-Chen Cheng

We describe a numerical algorithm for approximating the equilibrium-reduced density matrix and the effective (mean force) Hamiltonian for a set of system spins coupled strongly to…

physics.comp-ph2023

A spectrum adaptive kernel polynomial method

Tyler Chen

The kernel polynomial method (KPM) is a powerful numerical method for approximating spectral densities. Typical implementations of the KPM require an a prior estimate for an interv…

math.NA2026

Optimal near-optimality bounds for the Lanczos method for matrix functions

Tyler Chen, David Persson

Let be Hermitian positive definite and let denote the Lanczos approximation to . We prove that if or is Stieltjes, then the -norm error of t…

cs.LG2025

On the fast convergence of minibatch heavy ball momentum

Raghu Bollapragada, Tyler Chen, Rachel Ward

Simple stochastic momentum methods are widely used in machine learning optimization, but their good practical performance is at odds with an absence of theoretical guarantees of ac…

math.NA2025

Quasi-optimal hierarchically semi-separable matrix approximation

Noah Amsel, Tyler Chen, Feyza Duman Keles +4

We present a randomized algorithm for producing a quasi-optimal hierarchically semi-separable (HSS) approximation to an matrix using only matrix-vector products wit…

math.NA2023

GMRES, pseudospectra, and Crouzeix's conjecture for shifted and scaled Ginibre matrices

Tyler Chen, Anne Greenbaum, Thomas Trogdon

We study the GMRES algorithm applied to linear systems of equations involving a scaled and shifted matrix whose entries are independent complex Gaussians. When the righ…

cs.DS2025

GPU-Parallelizable Randomized Sketch-and-Precondition for Linear Regression using Sparse Sign Sketches

Tyler Chen, Pradeep Niroula, Archan Ray +3

A litany of theoretical and numerical results have established the sketch-and-precondition paradigm as a powerful approach to solving large linear regression problems in standard c…

cs.DS2024

Fixed-sparsity matrix approximation from matrix-vector products

Noah Amsel, Tyler Chen, Feyza Duman Keles +3

We study the problem of approximating a matrix with a matrix that has a fixed sparsity pattern (e.g., diagonal, banded, etc.), when is accessed only by ma…

cs.DS2021

Analysis of stochastic Lanczos quadrature for spectrum approximation

Tyler Chen, Thomas Trogdon, Shashanka Ubaru

The cumulative empirical spectral measure (CESM) of a symmetric matrix is defined as the fraction of eigenvalues of…

math.NA2023

Optimal Polynomial Approximation to Rational Matrix Functions Using the Arnoldi Algorithm

Tyler Chen, Anne Greenbaum, Natalie Wellen

Given an by matrix and an -vector , along with a rational function , we show how to find the optimal approximation to from the K…

math.NA2024

The Lanczos algorithm for matrix functions: a handbook for scientists

Tyler Chen

Lanczos-based methods have become standard tools for tasks involving matrix functions. Progress on these algorithms has been driven by several largely disjoint communities, resulti…

math.NA2026

Preconditioning without a preconditioner: faster ridge-regression and Gaussian sampling with randomized block Krylov subspace methods

Tyler Chen, Caroline Huber, Ethan Lin +1

We describe a randomized variant of the block conjugate gradient method for solving a single positive-definite linear system of equations. Our method provably outperforms precondit…

cs.LG2025

A Unified Framework for Provably Efficient Algorithms to Estimate Shapley Values

Tyler Chen, Akshay Seshadri, Mattia J. Villani +7

Shapley values have emerged as a critical tool for explaining which features impact the decisions made by machine learning models. However, computing exact Shapley values is diffic…

math.NA2024

Near-optimal convergence of the full orthogonalization method

Tyler Chen, Gérard Meurant

We establish a near-optimality guarantee for the full orthogonalization method (FOM), showing that the overall convergence of FOM is nearly as good as GMRES. In particular, we prov…

math.NA2024

A posteriori error bounds for the block-Lanczos method for matrix function approximation

Qichen Xu, Tyler Chen

We extend the error bounds from [SIMAX, Vol. 43, Iss. 2, pp. 787-811 (2022)] for the Lanczos method for matrix function approximation to the block algorithm. Numerical experiments…

math.NA2021

Predict-and-recompute conjugate gradient variants

Tyler Chen, Erin C. Carson

The standard implementation of the conjugate gradient algorithm suffers from communication bottlenecks on parallel architectures, due primarily to the two global reductions require…

math.NA2025

Randomized block-Krylov subspace methods for low-rank approximation of matrix functions

David Persson, Tyler Chen, Christopher Musco

The randomized SVD is a method to compute an inexpensive, yet accurate, low-rank approximation of a matrix. The algorithm assumes access to the matrix through matrix-vector product…

cs.DS2025

Does block size matter in randomized block Krylov low-rank approximation?

Tyler Chen, Ethan N. Epperly, Raphael A. Meyer +2

We study the problem of computing a rank- approximation of a matrix using randomized block Krylov iteration. Prior work has shown that, for block size or , a $(1…

math.NA2026

A recursive butterfly factorization with optimality guarantees

David Persson, Paul G. Beckman, Tyler Chen +2

We formalize a recursive format for representing a butterfly matrix. This new format naturally leads to a simple recursive algorithm for computing a quasi-optimal butterfly approxi…