Related papers: Block CG algorithms revisited
In the book [Meurant and Tichy, SIAM, 2024] we discussed the estimation of error norms in the conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm for solving linear systems $Ax=b$ with a symmetric positive definite matrix $A$, where $b$ and $x$ are vectors.…
We consider three mathematically equivalent variants of the conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm and how they perform in finite precision arithmetic. It was shown in [{\em Behavior of slightly perturbed Lanczos and conjugate-gradient…
Connections of the conjugate gradient (CG) method with other methods in computational mathematics are surveyed, including the connections with the conjugate direction method, the subspace optimization method and the quasi-Newton method BFGS…
The low rank approximation of matrices is a crucial component in many data mining applications today. A competitive algorithm for this class of problems is the randomized block Lanczos algorithm - an amalgamation of the traditional block…
In theory, the Lanczos algorithm generates an orthogonal basis of the corresponding Krylov subspace. However, in finite precision arithmetic, the orthogonality and linear independence of the computed Lanczos vectors is usually lost quickly.…
Compared to the classical Lanczos algorithm, the $s$-step Lanczos variant has the potential to improve performance by asymptotically decreasing the synchronization cost per iteration. However, this comes at a cost. Despite being…
The block Lanczos algorithm proposed by Peter Montgomery is an efficient means to tackle the sparse linear algebra problem which arises in the context of the number field sieve factoring algorithm and its predecessors. We present here a…
In this paper, we propose two mixed precision algorithms for Block-Jacobi preconditioner(BJAC): a fixed low precision strategy and an adaptive precision strategy. We evaluate the performance improvement of the proposed mixed precision BJAC…
The preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm is one of the most popular algorithms for solving large-scale linear systems Ax = b, where A is a symmetric positive definite matrix. Rather than computing residuals directly, it updates…
In her seminal 1989 work, Greenbaum demonstrated that the results produced by the finite precision Lanczos algorithm after $k$ iterations can be interpreted as exact Lanczos results applied to a larger matrix, whose eigenvalues lie in small…
Lanczos-type algorithms are efficient and easy to implement. Unfortunately they breakdown frequently and well before convergence has been achieved. These algorithms are typically based on recurrence relations which involve formal orthogonal…
The Lanczos algorithm has proven itself to be a valuable matrix eigensolver for problems with large dimensions, up to hundreds of millions or even tens of billions. The computational cost of using any Lanczos algorithm is dominated by the…
Computing quark propagators in lattice QCD is equivalent to solving large, sparse linear systems with multiple right-hand sides. Block algorithms attempt to accelerate the convergence of iterative Krylov-subspace methods by solving the…
We develop a block minimum residual (MINRES) algorithm for symmetric indefinite matrices. This version is built upon the band Lanczos method that generates one basis vector of the block Krylov subspace per iteration rather than a whole…
This work investigates a variant of the conjugate gradient (CG) method and embeds it into the context of high-order finite-element schemes with fast matrix-free operator evaluation and cheap preconditioners like the matrix diagonal. Relying…
The locally optimal block preconditioned conjugate gradient (LOBPCG) algorithm is a popular approach for computing a few smallest eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors of a large Hermitian positive definite matrix A. In this work,…
We investigate the method of conjugate gradients, exploiting inaccurate matrix-vector products, for the solution of convex quadratic optimization problems. Theoretical performance bounds are derived, and the necessary quantities occurring…
While recent work on conjugate gradient methods and Lanczos decompositions have achieved scalable Gaussian process inference with highly accurate point predictions, in several implementations these iterative methods appear to struggle with…
A common approach to approximating quadratic forms of matrix functions is to use a quadrature rule derived from the Lanczos process, known as a Lanczos quadrature. Although symmetric quadrature rules are computationally favorable, it has…
Locally Optimal Block Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (LOBPCG) is widely used to compute eigenvalues of large sparse symmetric matrices. The algorithm can suffer from numerical instability if it is not implemented with care. This is…