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Title: Reorthogonalized Pythagorean variants of block classical Gram-Schmidt

Abstract: Block classical Gram-Schmidt (BCGS) is commonly used for orthogonalizing a set of vectors $X$ in distributed computing environments due to its favorable communication properties relative to other orthogonalization approaches, such as modified Gram-Schmidt or Householder. However, it is known that BCGS (as well as recently developed low-synchronization variants of BCGS) can suffer from a significant loss of orthogonality in finite-precision arithmetic, which can contribute to instability and inaccurate solutions in downstream applications such as $s$-step Krylov subspace methods. A common solution to improve the orthogonality among the vectors is reorthogonalization. Focusing on the "Pythagorean" variant of BCGS, introduced in [E. Carson, K. Lund, & M. Rozlo\v{z}n\'{i}k. SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 42(3), pp. 1365--1380, 2021], which guarantees an $O(\varepsilon)\kappa^2(X)$ bound on the loss of orthogonality as long as $O(\varepsilon)\kappa^2(X)<1$, where $\varepsilon$ denotes the unit roundoff, we introduce and analyze two reorthogonalized Pythagorean BCGS variants. These variants feature favorable communication properties, with asymptotically two synchronization points per block column, as well as an improved $O(\varepsilon)$ bound on the loss of orthogonality. Our bounds are derived in a general fashion to additionally allow for the analysis of mixed-precision variants. We verify our theoretical results with a panel of test matrices and experiments from a new version of the \texttt{BlockStab} toolbox.
Subjects: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
MSC classes: 65-04, 65F25, 65G50, 65Y20
Cite as: arXiv:2405.01298 [math.NA]
  (or arXiv:2405.01298v1 [math.NA] for this version)

Submission history

From: Kathryn Lund [view email]
[v1] Thu, 2 May 2024 14:00:20 GMT (655kb,D)

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