True though I thought it was intended to run through all m steps - is it
simply that you stop after some number k and that still leads you to
compute the k largest eigenvectors of the original?
 On Nov 6, 2011 11:36 PM, "Danny Bickson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> To be exact, the size of the tridiagonal matrix
> is number of iterations + 1. See description of the matrix T_mm
> in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos_algorithm
>
> Best,
>
> DB
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Oh do you only need the top k x k bit of the tridiagonal to find the
> > top k eigenvalues?
> >
> > I really don't want to write a QR decomposer, phew.
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > The tridiagonal is much smaller than you would need if you wanted all
> the
> > > eigenvalues.  Since you only want a small number, you only have a
> > > tri-diagonal matrix that is some multiple of that size.  In-memory
> > > decomposition makes total sense.
> > >
> >
>

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