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A Block Bidiagonalization Method for Fixed-Accuracy Low-Rank Matrix Approximation
Eric Hallman
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We present randUBV, a randomized algorithm for matrix sketching based on the block Lanzcos bidiagonalization process. Given a matrix A, it produces a low-rank approximation of the form UBVᵀ, where U and V have orthonormal columns in exact arithmetic and B is block bidiagonal. In finite precision, the columns of both U and V will be close to orthonormal. Our algorithm is closely related to the randQB algorithms of Yu, Gu, and Li (2018) in that the entries of B are incrementally generated and the Frobenius norm approximation error may be efficiently estimated. Our algorithm is therefore suitable for the fixed-accuracy problem, and so is designed to terminate as soon as a user input error tolerance is reached. Numerical experiments suggest that the block Lanczos method is generally competitive with or superior to algorithms that use power iteration, even when A has significant clusters of singular values.
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