The document summarizes a talk on computing the matrix exponential on large networks. It discusses using relaxation methods like coordinate descent to solve the linear system that results from approximating the matrix exponential as a power series. This allows computing a single column of the matrix exponential, which provides link prediction scores for a node or identifies its community, in a way that scales to large networks. The talk outlines converting the problem into an equivalent linear system, presents relaxation methods for solving such systems efficiently even when the matrix and solution are sparse, and analyzes the error in using these methods.
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