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Entrywise Approximate Solutions for SDDM Systems in Almost-Linear Time

Published: November 20, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.16570v1

By: Angelo Farfan, Mehrdad Ghadiri, Junzhao Yang

BigTech Affiliations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Potential Business Impact:

Solves hard math problems much faster for computers.

Business Areas:
Virtual Assistant Software

We present an algorithm that given any invertible symmetric diagonally dominant M-matrix (SDDM), i.e., a principal submatrix of a graph Laplacian, $\boldsymbol{\mathit{L}}$ and a nonnegative vector $\boldsymbol{\mathit{b}}$, computes an entrywise approximation to the solution of $\boldsymbol{\mathit{L}} \boldsymbol{\mathit{x}} = \boldsymbol{\mathit{b}}$ in $\tilde{O}(m n^{o(1)})$ time with high probability, where $m$ is the number of nonzero entries and $n$ is the dimension of the system.

Country of Origin
🇺🇸 United States

Page Count
32 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Data Structures and Algorithms