Dynamical low-rank approximation: applications and numerical experiments

  • Authors:
  • Achim Nonnenmacher;Christian Lubich

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany;Mathematisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Dynamical low-rank approximation is a differential-equation-based approach to efficiently compute low-rank approximations to time-dependent large data matrices or to solutions of large matrix differential equations. We illustrate its use in the following application areas: as an updating procedure in latent semantic indexing for information retrieval, in the compression of series of images, and in the solution of time-dependent partial differential equations, specifically on a blow-up problem of a reaction-diffusion equation in two and three spatial dimensions. In 3D and higher dimensions, space discretization yields a tensor differential equation whose solution is approximated by low-rank tensors, effectively solving a system of discretized partial differential equations in one spatial dimension.