Questions tagged [condition-number]

For questions about calculating or interpreting condition numbers. Most commonly refers to the condition number of a matrix, but can be applied generally to analyzing the error in a function based on error in the input.

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Stable alternatives to "condition number"?

A number of numerical problems are easy to solve when condition number $\kappa$ of the problem is low. For instance, conjugate gradient descent complexity scales as $O(\sqrt{\kappa})$. However "...
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"Geometry of ill-conditioning" for least-squares problems

It is an idea that dates back to Demmel, 1987 that the condition number of a problem is often related to the distance to the closest ill-posed problems. In Section 3 of the above paper, the author ...
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Regularisation of ill-conditioned matrix-vector problem

I have a linear* problem which arises from an integro-differential system, and writes: $$ (\mathbf{I}+\lambda \mathbf{A})x = b $$ where $\mathbf{A}$ is a real full matrix, size $n\times n$, but is not ...
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How to classify chaotic systems from a stability perspective

I am wondering what chaotic systems are from the perspective of numerical analysis. I am talking about 'deterministic chaos' such as for instance the 'logistic map' exhibits it. That is, the solution ...
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Is there any function to calculate condition number of sparse matrix in Eigen libraray?

The function JacobiSVD and BDCSVD can calcuate condtion number of a dense matrix via singular values. However I need to know condition number of a sparese matrix due to slow computation speed using ...
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Condition number of finite element stiffness matrix

In the FEM, there are certain applications in which the condition number $(\kappa)$ of the overall global stiffness matrix $(A)$ is computed or reduced by some preconditioner $(P)$. Are there any ...
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