LMSVD

Limited Memory Block Krylov Subspace Optimization
for Computing Dominant Singular Value Decompositions

Introduction

LMSVD is a MATLAB solver for computing dominant singular value decompositions of large matrices. The approach is based on a block Krylov subspace optimization technique which significantly accelerates the classic simultaneous iteration method.

Consider a real matrix Ain R^{mtimes n} ( m le n without loss of generality) and a given positive integer k le min(m,n). The task is to find two orthogonal matrices U_k=[u_1,ldots,u_k]in R^{mtimes k} and V_k=[v_1,ldots,v_k]in R^{ntimes k}, and a diagonal matrix Sigma_kin R^{ktimes k} whose diagonal entries are the k largest singular values of A, say, sigma_1 geqcdots  geqsigma_{k} ge 0, such that

  A_k := U_k Sigma_k V_k^top= sum_{i=1}^k sigma_i u_i v_i^top = {argmin_{rank(W)le k} ; |A-W|_F}

The approximation A_k is called the k-th dominant singular value decomposition of A.

Authors

Publication

Xin Liu, Zaiwen Wen and Yin Zhang, Limited Memory Block Krylov Subspace Optimization for Computing Dominant Singular Value Decompositions, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 35-3 (2013), A1641-A1668.

In the case that LMSVD is helpful in your published work, please make a reference to the above paper.

Download and install

Download

LMSVD is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Installation

  • Unzip the distribution. This will create a directory called LMSVD. We'll refer to this directory as <lmsvd-root>.

  • Start Matlab and add <lmsvd-root> to your path:

>> addpath <lmsvd-root>

  • To verify the LMSVD installation, execute the following command within Matlab:

>> demo_lmsvd

A Typical Demo Result

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(The figure in the left-hand side is the distribution of relevant singular values of a random test matrix in our demo, and the right-hand side is the runtime comparison between Matlab 'svds’ and 'lmsvd’ in calculating 20 to 100 dominant singular values of the test matrix.)

Known Issues

The performance of LMSVD may vary with the implementation efficiency of matrix-matrix multiplications AX.

  • In Matlab, dense linear algebra operations have been generally well optimized by using BLAS and LAPACK tuned to the CPU processors in use. On the other hand, we have observed that some sparse linear algebra operations in Matlab (up to version 2013b) seem to have not been as highly optimized. In particular, when doing multiplications between a sparse matrix and a dense vector or matrix (denoted by “SpMM’’) the performance of Matlab's own version of SpMM can differ significantly from that of the corresponding routine in Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL), which is named ”mkl_dcscmm’’.

  • Comparison Results from running a Matrix Completion code called SVT are given below. LMSVD with SpMM-MKL is faster than with SpMM-Matlab.

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SpMM-Matlab
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SpMM-MKL

Detailed explanations are given in Section 5.2 of our paper An Efficient Gauss-Newton Algorithm for Symmetric Low-Rank Product Matrix Approximations

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