Publications by Alice Cortinovis

SPEEDING UP KRYLOV SUBSPACE METHODS FOR COMPUTING f(A)b VIA RANDOMIZATION

This work is concerned with the computation of the action of a matrix function f(A), such as the matrix exponential or the matrix square root, on a vector b. For a general matrix A, this can be done by computing the compression of A onto a suitable Krylov ...

Siam Publications2024

IMPROVED VARIANTS OF THE HUTCH plus plus ALGORITHM FOR TRACE ESTIMATION

Daniel Kressner, Alice Cortinovis, Ulf David Persson

This paper is concerned with two improved variants of the Hutch++ algorithm for estimating the trace of a square matrix, implicitly given through matrix-vector products. Hutch++ combines randomized low-rank approximation in a first phase with stochastic tr ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2022

DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER METHODS FOR FUNCTIONS OF MATRICES WITH BANDED OR HIERARCHICAL LOW-RANK STRUCTURE\ast

Daniel Kressner, Stefano Massei, Alice Cortinovis

This work is concerned with approximating matrix functions for banded matrices, hierarchically semiseparable matrices, and related structures. We develop a new divide-and-conquer method based on (rational) Krylov subspace methods for performing low-rank up ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2022

Fast deterministic and randomized algorithms for low-rank approximation, matrix functions, and trace estimation

Alice Cortinovis

In this thesis we propose and analyze algorithms for some numerical linear algebra tasks: finding low-rank approximations of matrices, computing matrix functions, and estimating the trace of matrices. In the first part, we consider algorithms for building ...

EPFL2022

On Randomized Trace Estimates for Indefinite Matrices with an Application to Determinants

Daniel Kressner, Alice Cortinovis

Randomized trace estimation is a popular and well-studied technique that approximates the trace of a large-scale matrix B by computing the average of x(T) Bx for many samples of a random vector X. Often, B is symmetric positive definite (SPD) but a number ...

2022

Low-Rank Updates Of Matrix Functions Ii: Rational Krylov Methods

Daniel Kressner, Marcel Schweitzer, Alice Cortinovis

This work develops novel rational Krylov methods for updating a large-scale matrix function f(A) when A is subject to low-rank modifications. It extends our previous work in this context on polynomial Krylov methods, for which we present a simplified conve ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2021

On maximum volume submatrices and cross approximation for symmetric semidefinite and diagonally dominant matrices

Daniel Kressner, Stefano Massei, Alice Cortinovis

The problem of finding a k x k submatrix of maximum volume of a matrix A is of interest in a variety of applications. For example, it yields a quasi-best low-rank approximation constructed from the rows and columns of A. We show that such a submatrix can a ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2020

Low-Rank Approximation In The Frobenius Norm By Column And Row Subset Selection

Daniel Kressner, Alice Cortinovis

A CUR approximation of a matrix A is a particular type of low-rank approximation A approximate to CUR, where C and R consist of columns and rows of A, respectively. One way to obtain such an approximation is to apply column subset selection to A and A(T). ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2020