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Momentum accelerated power iterations and the restarted Lanczos method

Published: November 7, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.05364v1

By: Alessandro Barletta, Nicholas Marshall, Sara Pollock

Potential Business Impact:

Speeds up finding important numbers in big problems.

Business Areas:
A/B Testing Data and Analytics

In this paper we compare two methods for finding extremal eigenvalues and eigenvectors: the restarted Lanczos method and momentum accelerated power iterations. The convergence of both methods is based on ratios of Chebyshev polynomials evaluated at subdominant and dominant eigenvalues; however, the convergence is not the same. Here we compare the theoretical convergence properties of both methods, and determine the relative regimes where each is more efficient. We further introduce a preconditioning technique for the restarted Lanczos method using momentum accelerated power iterations, and demonstrate its effectiveness. The theoretical results are backed up by numerical tests on benchmark problems.

Country of Origin
🇺🇸 United States

Page Count
21 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Numerical Analysis (Math)