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A new Nested Cross Approximation

28 Mar 2022arXiv:2203.14832links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Vaishnavi Gujjula, Sivaram Ambikasaran

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In this article, we present a new Nested Cross Approximation (NNCA) for constructing H2 matrices. It differs from the existing NCAs~\cite{bebendorf2012constructing, zhao2019fast} in the technique of choosing pivots, a key part of the approximation. Our technique of choosing pivots is purely algebraic and involves only a single tree traversal. We demonstrate its applicability by developing a fast H2 matrix-vector product, that uses NNCA for the appropriate low-rank approximations. We illustrate the timing profiles and the accuracy of NNCA based H2 matrix-vector product. We also provide a comparison of NNCA based H2 matrix-vector product with the existing NCA based H2 matrix-vector products. A key observation is that NNCA performs better than the existing NCAs. In addition, using the NNCA based H2 matrix-vector product, we accelerate i) solving an integral equation in 3D and ii) Support Vector Machine (SVM). In the spirit of reproducible computational science, the implementation of the algorithm developed in this article is made available at \url{https://github.com/SAFRAN-LAB/NNCA}.

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