Accurate polynomial fitting and evaluation via Arnoldi

Lei Hong Zhang, Yangfeng Su, Ren Cang Li*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Given sample data points {(xj, fj)}Nj=1, in [Brubeck, Nakatsukasa, and Trefethen, SIAM Review, 63 (2021), pp. 405-415], an Arnoldi-based procedure is proposed to accurately evaluate the best fitting polynomial, in the least squares sense, at new nodes {sj }Mj=1, based on the Vandermonde basis. Numerical tests indicated that this procedure can in general achieve high accuracy. The main purpose of this paper is to perform a forward rounding error analysis in finite precision. Our result establishes sensitivity factors regarding the accuracy of the algorithm, and provides a theoretical justification for why the algorithm works. For least-squares approximation on an interval, we propose a variant of this Arnoldi-based evaluation by using the Chebyshev polynomial basis. Numerical tests are reported to demonstrate our forward rounding error analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)526-546
Number of pages21
JournalNumerical Algebra, Control and Optimization
Volume14
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2024

User-Defined Keywords

  • Arnoldi process
  • Lanczos process
  • least-squares
  • polynomial interpolation
  • Rounding error analysis
  • SOAR
  • Vandermonde matrix

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