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Solvers for Large Scale Eigenvalue and SVD Problems RSpectra

Introduction

RSpectra is an R interface to the Spectra library. It is typically used to compute a few eigenvalues/vectors of an n by n matrix, e.g., the k largest eigen values, which is usually more efficient than eigen() if k << n.

Currently this package provides the function eigs() for eigenvalue/eigenvector problems, and svds() for truncated SVD. Different matrix types in R, including sparse matrices, are supported. Below is a list of implemented ones:

Examples

We first generate some matrices:

library(Matrix)
n = 20
k = 5

set.seed(111)
A1 = matrix(rnorm(n^2), n)  ## class "matrix"
A2 = Matrix(A1)             ## class "dgeMatrix"

General matrices have complex eigenvalues:

eigs(A1, k)
eigs(A2, k, opts = list(retvec = FALSE))  ## eigenvalues only

RSpectra also works on sparse matrices:

A1[sample(n^2, n^2 / 2)] = 0
A3 = as(A1, "dgCMatrix")
A4 = as(A1, "dgRMatrix")

eigs(A3, k)
eigs(A4, k)

Function interface is also supported:

f = function(x, args)
{
    as.numeric(args %*% x)
}
eigs(f, k, n = n, args = A3)

Symmetric matrices have real eigenvalues.

A5 = crossprod(A1)
eigs_sym(A5, k)

To find the smallest (in absolute value) k eigenvalues of A5, we have two approaches:

eigs_sym(A5, k, which = "SM")
eigs_sym(A5, k, sigma = 0)

The results should be the same, but the latter method is far more stable on large matrices.

For SVD problems, you can specify the number of singular values (k), number of left singular vectors (nu) and number of right singular vectors(nv).

m = 100
n = 20
k = 5
set.seed(111)
A = matrix(rnorm(m * n), m)

svds(A, k)
svds(t(A), k, nu = 0, nv = 3)

Similar to eigs(), svds() supports sparse matrices:

A[sample(m * n, m * n / 2)] = 0
Asp1 = as(A, "dgCMatrix")
Asp2 = as(A, "dgRMatrix")

svds(Asp1, k)
svds(Asp2, k, nu = 0, nv = 0)

and function interface

f = function(x, args)
{
    as.numeric(args %*% x)
}
g = function(x, args)
{
    as.numeric(crossprod(args, x))
}
svds(f, k, Atrans = g, dim = c(m, n), args = Asp1)

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.