loewner-model
At its defaults it draws six is the degree, and the model reaches it from 24 numbers. A reduced model of a forty-state system built out of 24 samples of its transfer function and nothing else — no state matrix, no eigenvalues, no factorisation of anything the model is of. The Loewner pencil of divided differences is formed from the samples, its singular values are read for the degree (6 here, with a gap of 2.01·10⁸ across the cliff), and the pencil is projected onto that many directions. The filled curve is the worst relative error at the samples the model was built from; the open one is the worst error at forty points it never saw. At the true degree of six the first is 6.99·10⁻¹² — interpolation is exact by construction, not by accuracy — and the second is 2.12·10⁻⁹.
loewner-model is one function in lib/figures/graphfit.js —
three approximations the data chose the shape of — support points, a restricted perturbation, and a model made of measurements. Everything below came out of it during this build, at
arguments taken from the essays rather than invented for this page. A figure here is the
figure a reader meets in an essay, and if the generator changes, this page changes with it.
At its defaults
Drawn even though every essay passes arguments — which on this site is every essay, at 100% of placements since the standard pass. A default nothing exercises is a trap for the next essay to call this with none, and this is the page where a default that has drifted from the figures around it becomes visible.
A reduced model of a forty-state system built out of 24 samples of its transfer function and nothing else — no state matrix, no eigenvalues, no factorisation of anything the model is of. The Loewner pencil of divided differences is formed from the samples, its singular values are read for the degree (6 here, with a gap of 2.01·10⁸ across the cliff), and the pencil is projected onto that many directions. The filled curve is the worst relative error at the samples the model was built from; the open one is the worst error at forty points it never saw. At the true degree of six the first is 6.99·10⁻¹² — interpolation is exact by construction, not by accuracy — and the second is 2.12·10⁻⁹.
logNoise: -16
The arguments are the ones A model with no matrices behind it passes. A value drawn at the generator's defaults instead would be a picture no essay asked for and no assertion has been run against.
A reduced model of a forty-state system built out of 24 samples of its transfer function and nothing else — no state matrix, no eigenvalues, no factorisation of anything the model is of. The Loewner pencil of divided differences is formed from the samples, its singular values are read for the degree (6 here, with a gap of 2.01·10⁸ across the cliff), and the pencil is projected onto that many directions. The filled curve is the worst relative error at the samples the model was built from; the open one is the worst error at forty points it never saw. At the true degree of six the first is 6.99·10⁻¹² — interpolation is exact by construction, not by accuracy — and the second is 2.12·10⁻⁹.
logNoise: -6
The arguments are the ones A model with no matrices behind it passes. A value drawn at the generator's defaults instead would be a picture no essay asked for and no assertion has been run against.
A reduced model of a forty-state system built out of 24 samples of its transfer function and nothing else — no state matrix, no eigenvalues, no factorisation of anything the model is of. The Loewner pencil of divided differences is formed from the samples, its singular values are read for the degree (10 here, with a gap of 6542 across the cliff), and the pencil is projected onto that many directions. The filled curve is the worst relative error at the samples the model was built from; the open one is the worst error at forty points it never saw. With relative noise of 10⁻⁶ on the samples the singular values stop falling to the rounding level, the cliff becomes a slope, and no order does better than 0.00164 — the data's own error is a floor, and taking more of the degree past 11 buys nothing.
logNoise: -12
The arguments are the ones A model with no matrices behind it passes. A value drawn at the generator's defaults instead would be a picture no essay asked for and no assertion has been run against.
A reduced model of a forty-state system built out of 24 samples of its transfer function and nothing else — no state matrix, no eigenvalues, no factorisation of anything the model is of. The Loewner pencil of divided differences is formed from the samples, its singular values are read for the degree (6 here, with a gap of 4.73·10⁶ across the cliff), and the pencil is projected onto that many directions. The filled curve is the worst relative error at the samples the model was built from; the open one is the worst error at forty points it never saw. With relative noise of 10⁻¹² on the samples the singular values stop falling to the rounding level, the cliff becomes a slope, and no order does better than 1.39·10⁻⁹ — the data's own error is a floor, and taking more of the degree past 11 buys nothing.
logNoise: -10
The arguments are the ones A model with no matrices behind it passes. A value drawn at the generator's defaults instead would be a picture no essay asked for and no assertion has been run against.
A reduced model of a forty-state system built out of 24 samples of its transfer function and nothing else — no state matrix, no eigenvalues, no factorisation of anything the model is of. The Loewner pencil of divided differences is formed from the samples, its singular values are read for the degree (9 here, with a gap of 4.41 across the cliff), and the pencil is projected onto that many directions. The filled curve is the worst relative error at the samples the model was built from; the open one is the worst error at forty points it never saw. With relative noise of 10⁻¹⁰ on the samples the singular values stop falling to the rounding level, the cliff becomes a slope, and no order does better than 1.63·10⁻⁷ — the data's own error is a floor, and taking more of the degree past 11 buys nothing.
logNoise: -8
The arguments are the ones A model with no matrices behind it passes. A value drawn at the generator's defaults instead would be a picture no essay asked for and no assertion has been run against.
A reduced model of a forty-state system built out of 24 samples of its transfer function and nothing else — no state matrix, no eigenvalues, no factorisation of anything the model is of. The Loewner pencil of divided differences is formed from the samples, its singular values are read for the degree (10 here, with a gap of 6561 across the cliff), and the pencil is projected onto that many directions. The filled curve is the worst relative error at the samples the model was built from; the open one is the worst error at forty points it never saw. With relative noise of 10⁻⁸ on the samples the singular values stop falling to the rounding level, the cliff becomes a slope, and no order does better than 1.64·10⁻⁵ — the data's own error is a floor, and taking more of the degree past 11 buys nothing.
What it checked while drawing
Every figure above asserted its own claims on the way to being drawn, and a claim that failed
would have failed the build rather than drawn a wrong picture. Those assertions used to leave
no trace at all: a passing one returned true and the only evidence the figure had
checked anything was that nothing crashed. The list below is what they actually said, collected
by running this generator with an observer installed — not a description of
what it is believed to check.
12 distinct claims across 6 sets of arguments, grouped below by shape — because most of them are one sentence with a different number in it, and how many separate times that sentence was put to the test is the informative part.
a degree the state dimension can carry
a grid fine enough to have modes and coarse enough to draw
a noise level between the rounding and a per cent
an actuator and a sensor on the grid
an even number of samples, at least four
an interval of real points to the left of a stable spectrum
an order the pencil can carry
and the model of that order passes through every sample
LU is for square matrices
matmul shapes agree
the best model is no better than the noise in its data
the singular values of the Loewner matrix find the degree
Against the rule
It draws a decomposition and prints its residual. It calls
orderSweep, orderSweep,
and every figure above carries the badge — which residualcheck verifies by looking
for it in the emitted SVG rather than by finding the call that builds one. A badge that is
constructed and then left out of the body is the failure that check exists for.
Across the library: the rule bites on 214
of 382 generators —
194 print a residual and
20 are exempt with a published reason;
168 factorise nothing.
Read from lib/residual-rule.js, which is the same body the gate enforces from,
and the gate's last check fails the build if this page and it disagree about any generator.
Where it is called
Changing this generator changes every figure on this list. That is what makes the list worth publishing rather than keeping in a check script.
A model with no matrices behind it
Twenty-four numbers — values of a transfer function at twenty-four points — produce a sixth-order model of a forty-state system that passes through every sample to 10⁻¹² and matches the function it never saw to 10⁻⁹. Noise of 10⁻¹⁰ on those numbers takes the rank decision's gap from 10⁸ to 4.
The eigenvalue problem that is not linearA perturbation that moves every coefficient
The backward error of a polynomial eigenpair is measured against perturbations of all three coefficients at once. Restrict it to the one coefficient anybody is willing to move and the same computed answers are stable at one eigenvalue and unstable at another, by a factor that runs from 1.06 to 6,370 across a single spectrum.
The eigenvalue problem that is not linearThe points the algorithm chose
A rational approximant whose support points are picked by its own residual clusters geometrically at a branch point nobody named — recovering by measurement the rule a hand-built approximant is given. At degree ten it is seven hundred and fifty times more accurate than the same form with its points spread evenly.