@article{gradientdescentandthepowermethod, title = {Gradient Descent and the Power Method: Exploiting their connection to find the leftmost eigen-pair and escape saddle points}, author = {Rachael Tappenden and Martin Takáč}, year = {2022}, eprint = {2211.00866}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00866v1}, }