Fast ultrametric matrix-vector multiplication

12/31/2021

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by   Tobias Hofmann, et al.

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We study the properties of ultrametric matrices aiming to design methods for fast ultrametric matrix-vector multiplication. We show how to encode such a matrix as a tree structure in quadratic time and demonstrate how to use the resulting representation to perform matrix-vector multiplications in linear time. Accompanying this article, we provide an implementation of the proposed algorithms and present empirical results on their practical performance.