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Diagonal Estimation with Probing Methods

Abstract

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Probing methods for trace estimation of large, sparse matrices has been studied for several decades. In recent years, there has been some work to extend these techniques to instead estimate the diagonal entries of these systems directly. We extend some analysis of trace estimators to their corresponding diagonal estimators, propose a new class of deterministic diagonal estimators which are well-suited to parallel architectures along with heuristic arguments for the design choices in their construction, and conclude with numerical results on diagonal estimation and ordering problems, demonstrating the strengths of our newly-developed methods alongside existing methods.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Mathematics
Department dc:contributor.department
Mathematics
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2019

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Kaperick, Bryan James
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Chung, Matthias
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Gugercin, Serkan
  • Mohan, Jayanth Jagalur
  • Chung, Julianne

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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vt_gsexam:20747
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/90402

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citation

Kaperick, Bryan James. Diagonal Estimation with Probing Methods. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90402