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Art J. R. Pelling

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arXiv2026

Impulse Response Estimation via Laguerre-Fourier Expansion

The empirical transfer function estimate (ETFE) is a widely used method for system identification of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems in engineering disciplines such as acoustics, audio engineering, seismography, and tomography. However, ETFE suffers from numerical limitations when the excitation signal is band-limited or vanishes at certain frequencies, which is a common physical constraint of the excitation in practice. In such cases, division in the frequency domain becomes heavily ill-conditioned, and small measurement disturbances or numerical inaccuracies can degrade the solution. This paper presents L-ETFE, a generalization of ETFE based on Laguerre-Fourier expansions that addresses these limitations. After a suitable transformation, the method can yield a well-conditioned circulant problem even when the original ETFE system is ill-conditioned. Solving this problem via classical ETFE yields the discrete Laguerre-Fourier coefficients of the system's transfer function. The desired impulse response (IR) of the system-to-be-identified can then be recovered by a subsequent transformation pipeline. We derive novel and efficient algorithms for performing these transformations and analyse the conditioning of the transformed problem, explicitly characterizing its dependence on the input and a parameter used in the Laguerre-Fourier expansion. We evaluate the method on two simulated discrete-time LTI systems of varying complexity. The experiments demonstrate accurate IR recovery for spectral-zero and band-limited excitation, where standard ETFE fails.

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arXiv2025

Towards an Efficient Shifted Cholesky QR for Applications in Model Order Reduction using pyMOR

Many model order reduction (MOR) methods rely on the computation of an orthonormal basis of a subspace onto which the large full order model is projected. Numerically, this entails the orthogonalization of a set of vectors. The nature of the MOR process imposes several requirements for the orthogonalization process. Firstly, MOR is oftentimes performed in an adaptive or iterative manner, where the quality of the reduced order model, i.e., the dimension of the reduced subspace, is decided on the fly. Therefore, it is important that the orthogonalization routine can be executed iteratively. Secondly, one possibly has to deal with high-dimensional arrays of abstract vectors that do not allow explicit access to entries, making it difficult to employ so-called `orthogonal triangularization algorithms' such as Householder QR. For these reasons, (modified) Gram-Schmidt-type algorithms are commonly used in MOR applications. These methods belong to the category of `triangular orthogonalization' algorithms that do not rely on elementwise access to the vectors and can be easily updated. Recently, algorithms like shifted Cholesky QR have gained attention. These also belong to the aforementioned category and have proven their aptitude for MOR algorithms in previous studies. A key benefit of these methods is that they are communication-avoiding, leading to vastly superior performance on memory-bandwidth-limited problems and parallel or distributed architectures. This work formulates an efficient updating scheme for Cholesky QR algorithms and proposes an improved shifting strategy for highly ill-conditioned matrices. The proposed algorithmic extensions are validated with numerical experiments on a laptop and computation server.

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arXiv2025

Adaptive Reduced Order Modelling of Discrete-Time Systems with Input-Output Dead Time

While many acoustic systems are well-modelled by linear time-invariant dynamical systems, high-fidelity models often become computationally expensive due the complexity of dynamics. Reduced order modelling techniques, such as the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm (ERA), can be used to create efficient surrogate models from measurement data, particularly impulse responses. However, practical challenges remain, including the presence of input-output dead times, i.e. propagation delays, in the data, which can increase model order and introduce artifacts like pre-ringing. This paper introduces an improved technique for the extraction of dead times, by formulating a linear program to separate input and output dead times from the data. Additionally, the paper presents an adaptive randomized ERA pipeline that leverages recent advances in numerical linear algebra to reduce computational complexity and enabling scalable model reduction. Benchmarking on large-scale datasets of measured room impulse responses demonstrates that the propsed dead time extraction scheme yields more accurate and efficient reduced order models compared to previous approaches. The implementation is made available as open-source Python code, facilitating reproducibility and further research.

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arXiv2024

Snapshot-driven Rational Interpolation of Parametric Systems

Parametric data-driven modeling is relevant for many applications in which the model depends on parameters that can potentially vary in both space and time. In this paper, we present a method to obtain a global parametric model based on snapshots of the parameter space. The parameter snapshots are interpolated using the classical univariate Loewner framework and the global bivariate transfer function is extracted using a linear fractional transformation (LFT). Rank bounds for the minimal order of the global realization are also derived. The results are supported by various numerical examples.

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