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20192026
most citedKrylov-aware stochastic trace estimation

16 citations · 81 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

math.NA2026

A simple stability analysis of the Lanczos algorithm in finite precision arithmetic

Tyler Chen

We give a self-contained analysis of the symmetric Lanczos algorithm without reorthogonalization when computations are performed inexactly. We show the computed Lanczos vectors are…

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…

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…

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…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 4 cited

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.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.NA2023★ 1 cited

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…

math.NA2023

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.NA2023★ 1 cited

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…

math.NA2022★ 1 cited

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…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

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.NA2022★ 16 cited

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…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

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…

math.NA2022★ 5 cited

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…

math.NA2022★ 6 cited

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…

cs.DS2021★ 7 cited

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.NA2021★ 11 cited

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.ST2020★ 1 cited

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.NA2019★ 5 cited

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.NA2019★ 6 cited

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…