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A randomized algorithm for computing a compressed representation of a given rankstructured matrix A ∈ R N ×N is presented. The algorithm interacts with A only through its action on vectors. Specifically, it draws two tall thin matrices Ω, Ψ ∈ R N ×s from a suitable distribution, and then reconstructs A from the information contained in the set AΩ, Ω, A * Ψ, Ψ. For the specific case of a "Hierarchically Block Separable (HBS) " matrix (a. k. a. Hierarchically Semi-Separable matrix) of block rank k, the number of samples s required satisfies s = O (k), with s ≈ 3k being representative. While a number of randomized algorithms for compressing rank-structured matrices have previously been published, the current algorithm appears to be the first that is both of truly linear complexity (no N log (N) factors in the complexity bound) and fully "black box" in the sense that no matrix entry evaluation is required. Further, all samples can be extracted in parallel, enabling the algorithm to work in a "streaming" or "single view" mode.
Levitt et al. (Fri,) studied this question.