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Hauptverfasser: Damle, Anil, Glas, Silke, Townsend, Alex, Yu, Annan
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Damle, Anil
Glas, Silke
Townsend, Alex
Yu, Annan
author_facet Damle, Anil
Glas, Silke
Townsend, Alex
Yu, Annan
contents We study algorithms called rank-revealers that reveal a matrix's rank structure. Such algorithms form a fundamental component in matrix compression, singular value estimation, and column subset selection problems. While column-pivoted QR has been widely adopted due to its practicality, it is not always a rank-revealer. Conversely, Gaussian elimination (GE) with a pivoting strategy known as global maximum volume pivoting is guaranteed to estimate a matrix's singular values but its exponential complexity limits its interest to theory. We show that the concept of local maximum volume pivoting is a crucial and practical pivoting strategy for rank-revealers based on GE and QR. In particular, we prove that it is both necessary and sufficient; highlighting that all local solutions are nearly as good as the global one. This insight elevates Gu and Eisenstat's rank-revealing QR as an archetypal rank-revealer, and we implement a version that is observed to be at most $2\times$ more computationally expensive than CPQR. We unify the landscape of rank-revealers by considering GE and QR together and prove that the success of any pivoting strategy can be assessed by benchmarking it against a local maximum volume pivot.
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spellingShingle How to reveal the rank of a matrix?
Damle, Anil
Glas, Silke
Townsend, Alex
Yu, Annan
Numerical Analysis
We study algorithms called rank-revealers that reveal a matrix's rank structure. Such algorithms form a fundamental component in matrix compression, singular value estimation, and column subset selection problems. While column-pivoted QR has been widely adopted due to its practicality, it is not always a rank-revealer. Conversely, Gaussian elimination (GE) with a pivoting strategy known as global maximum volume pivoting is guaranteed to estimate a matrix's singular values but its exponential complexity limits its interest to theory. We show that the concept of local maximum volume pivoting is a crucial and practical pivoting strategy for rank-revealers based on GE and QR. In particular, we prove that it is both necessary and sufficient; highlighting that all local solutions are nearly as good as the global one. This insight elevates Gu and Eisenstat's rank-revealing QR as an archetypal rank-revealer, and we implement a version that is observed to be at most $2\times$ more computationally expensive than CPQR. We unify the landscape of rank-revealers by considering GE and QR together and prove that the success of any pivoting strategy can be assessed by benchmarking it against a local maximum volume pivot.
title How to reveal the rank of a matrix?
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04330