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James Levitt

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arXiv2025

Randomized Block Low-Rank Matrix Compression by Tagging

In this work, we present randomized compression algorithms for flat rank-structured matrices with shared bases, termed uniform Block Low-Rank (BLR) matrices. Our main contribution is a technique called tagging, which improves upon the efficiency of existing algorithms for basis matrix computation while preserving accuracy. Tagging operates on the matrix using matrix-vector products of the matrix and its adjoint, making it suitable for black-box environments where accessing individual matrix entries is computationally expensive or infeasible. We show tagging requires a constant number of matrix-vector products coupled with linear post-processing; crucially, the asymptotic pre-factors in tagging depend only on the rank parameter and the underlying problem geometry. We also establish a theoretical connection between the optimal construction of tagging matrices and projective varieties in algebraic geometry, suggesting a hybrid numeric-symbolic avenue of future work. To validate our approach, we apply tagging to compress uniform BLR matrices arising from the discretization of integral and partial differential equations. Empirical results show that tagging outperforms alternative compression techniques, significantly reducing both the number of required matrix-vector products and overall computational time. These findings highlight the practicality and scalability of tagging as an efficient method for flat rank-structured matrices in scientific computing.

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arXiv2022

Randomized Compression of Rank-Structured Matrices Accelerated with Graph Coloring

A randomized algorithm for computing a data sparse representation of a given rank structured matrix $A$ (a.k.a. an $H$-matrix) is presented. The algorithm draws on the randomized singular value decomposition (RSVD), and operates under the assumption that algorithms for rapidly applying $A$ and $A^{*}$ to vectors are available. The algorithm analyzes the hierarchical tree that defines the rank structure using graph coloring algorithms to generate a set of random test vectors. The matrix is then applied to the test vectors, and in a final step the matrix itself is reconstructed by the observed input-output pairs. The method presented is an evolution of the "peeling algorithm" of L. Lin, J. Lu, and L. Ying, "Fast construction of hierarchical matrix representation from matrix-vector multiplication," JCP, 230(10), 2011. For the case of uniform trees, the new method substantially reduces the pre-factor of the original peeling algorithm. More significantly, the new technique leads to dramatic acceleration for many non-uniform trees since it constructs sample vectors that are optimized for a given tree. The algorithm is particularly effective for kernel matrices involving a set of points restricted to a lower dimensional object than the ambient space, such as a boundary integral equation defined on a surface in three dimensions.

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arXiv2022

Linear-Complexity Black-Box Randomized Compression of Rank-Structured Matrices

A randomized algorithm for computing a compressed representation of a given rank-structured matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times N}$ is presented. The algorithm interacts with $A$ only through its action on vectors. Specifically, it draws two tall thin matrices $\Omega,\,\Psi \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times s}$ from a suitable distribution, and then reconstructs $A$ from the information contained in the set $\{A\Omega,\,\Omega,\,A^{*}\Psi,\,\Psi\}$. For the specific case of a "Hierarchically Block Separable (HBS)" matrix (a.k.a. Hierarchically Semi-Separable matrix) of block rank $k$, the number of samples $s$ required satisfies $s = O(k)$, with $s \approx 3k$ being representative. While a number of randomized algorithms for compressing rank-structured matrices have previously been published, the current algorithm appears to be the first that is both of truly linear complexity (no $N\log(N)$ factors in the complexity bound) and fully "black box" in the sense that no matrix entry evaluation is required. Further, all samples can be extracted in parallel, enabling the algorithm to work in a "streaming" or "single view" mode.

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arXiv2017

Geometry-Oblivious FMM for Compressing Dense SPD Matrices

We present GOFMM (geometry-oblivious FMM), a novel method that creates a hierarchical low-rank approximation, "compression," of an arbitrary dense symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix. For many applications, GOFMM enables an approximate matrix-vector multiplication in $N \log N$ or even $N$ time, where $N$ is the matrix size. Compression requires $N \log N$ storage and work. In general, our scheme belongs to the family of hierarchical matrix approximation methods. In particular, it generalizes the fast multipole method (FMM) to a purely algebraic setting by only requiring the ability to sample matrix entries. Neither geometric information (i.e., point coordinates) nor knowledge of how the matrix entries have been generated is required, thus the term "geometry-oblivious." Also, we introduce a shared-memory parallel scheme for hierarchical matrix computations that reduces synchronization barriers. We present results on the Intel Knights Landing and Haswell architectures, and on the NVIDIA Pascal architecture for a variety of matrices.

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arXiv2016

Spontaneous Emission in Nonlocal Materials

Light-matter interactions can be dramatically modified by the surrounding environment. Here we report on the first experimental observation of molecular spontaneous emission inside a highly nonlocal metamaterial based on a plasmonic nanorod assembly. We show that the emission process is dominated not only by the topology of its local effective medium dispersion, but also by the nonlocal response of the composite, so that metamaterials with different geometric parameters but the same local effective medium properties exhibit different Purcell factors. A record-high enhancement of a decay rate is observed, in agreement with the developed quantitative description of the Purcell effect in a nonlocal medium. An engineered material nonlocality introduces an additional degree of freedom into quantum electrodynamics, enabling new applications in quantum information processing, photo-chemistry, imaging, and sensing.

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