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F08MEF (DBDSQR)

Note:  before using this routine, please read the Users' Note for your implementation to check the interpretation of bold italicised terms and other implementation-dependent details.
Warning. The specification of the parameter WORK changed at Mark 20: the length of WORK needs to be increased.

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    1  Purpose
    7  Accuracy

1  Purpose

F08MEF (DBDSQR) computes the singular value decomposition of a real upper or lower bidiagonal matrix, or of a real general matrix which has been reduced to bidiagonal form.

2  Specification

SUBROUTINE F08MEF ( UPLO, N, NCVT, NRU, NCC, D, E, VT, LDVT, U, LDU, C, LDC, WORK, INFO)
INTEGER  N, NCVT, NRU, NCC, LDVT, LDU, LDC, INFO
REAL (KIND=nag_wp)  D(*), E(*), VT(LDVT,*), U(LDU,*), C(LDC,*), WORK(*)
CHARACTER(1)  UPLO
The routine may be called by its LAPACK name dbdsqr.

3  Description

F08MEF (DBDSQR) computes the singular values and, optionally, the left or right singular vectors of a real upper or lower bidiagonal matrix B. In other words, it can compute the singular value decomposition (SVD) of B as
B = U Σ VT .
Here Σ is a diagonal matrix with real diagonal elements σi (the singular values of B), such that
σ1 σ2 σn 0 ;
U is an orthogonal matrix whose columns are the left singular vectors ui; V is an orthogonal matrix whose rows are the right singular vectors vi. Thus
Bui = σi vi   and   BT vi = σi ui ,   i = 1,2,,n .
To compute U and/or VT, the arrays U and/or VT must be initialized to the unit matrix before F08MEF (DBDSQR) is called.
The routine may also be used to compute the SVD of a real general matrix A which has been reduced to bidiagonal form by an orthogonal transformation: A=QBPT. If A is m by n with mn, then Q is m by n and PT is n by n; if A is n by p with n<p, then Q is n by n and PT is n by p. In this case, the matrices Q and/or PT must be formed explicitly by F08KFF (DORGBR) and passed to F08MEF (DBDSQR) in the arrays U and/or VT respectively.
F08MEF (DBDSQR) also has the capability of forming UTC, where C is an arbitrary real matrix; this is needed when using the SVD to solve linear least squares problems.
F08MEF (DBDSQR) uses two different algorithms. If any singular vectors are required (i.e., if NCVT>0 or NRU>0 or NCC>0), the bidiagonal QR algorithm is used, switching between zero-shift and implicitly shifted forms to preserve the accuracy of small singular values, and switching between QR and QL variants in order to handle graded matrices effectively (see Demmel and Kahan (1990)). If only singular values are required (i.e., if NCVT=NRU=NCC=0), they are computed by the differential qd algorithm (see Fernando and Parlett (1994)), which is faster and can achieve even greater accuracy.
The singular vectors are normalized so that ui=vi=1, but are determined only to within a factor ±1.

4  References

Demmel J W and Kahan W (1990) Accurate singular values of bidiagonal matrices SIAM J. Sci. Statist. Comput. 11 873–912
Fernando K V and Parlett B N (1994) Accurate singular values and differential qd algorithms Numer. Math. 67 191–229
Golub G H and Van Loan C F (1996) Matrix Computations (3rd Edition) Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

5  Parameters

1:     UPLO – CHARACTER(1)Input
On entry: indicates whether B is an upper or lower bidiagonal matrix.
UPLO='U'
B is an upper bidiagonal matrix.
UPLO='L'
B is a lower bidiagonal matrix.
Constraint: UPLO='U' or 'L'.
2:     N – INTEGERInput
On entry: n, the order of the matrix B.
Constraint: N0.
3:     NCVT – INTEGERInput
On entry: ncvt, the number of columns of the matrix VT of right singular vectors. Set NCVT=0 if no right singular vectors are required.
Constraint: NCVT0.
4:     NRU – INTEGERInput
On entry: nru, the number of rows of the matrix U of left singular vectors. Set NRU=0 if no left singular vectors are required.
Constraint: NRU0.
5:     NCC – INTEGERInput
On entry: ncc, the number of columns of the matrix C. Set NCC=0 if no matrix C is supplied.
Constraint: NCC0.
6:     D(*) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
Note: the dimension of the array D must be at least max1,N.
On entry: the diagonal elements of the bidiagonal matrix B.
On exit: the singular values in decreasing order of magnitude, unless INFO>0 (in which case see Section 6).
7:     E(*) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
Note: the dimension of the array E must be at least max1,N-1.
On entry: the off-diagonal elements of the bidiagonal matrix B.
On exit: E is overwritten, but if INFO>0 see Section 6.
8:     VT(LDVT,*) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
Note: the second dimension of the array VT must be at least max1,NCVT.
On entry: if NCVT>0, VT must contain an n by ncvt matrix. If the right singular vectors of B are required, ncvt=n and VT must contain the unit matrix; if the right singular vectors of A are required, VT must contain the orthogonal matrix PT returned by F08KFF (DORGBR) with VECT='P' .
On exit: the n by ncvt matrix VT  or VTPT  of right singular vectors, stored by rows.
If NCVT=0, VT is not referenced.
9:     LDVT – INTEGERInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array VT as declared in the (sub)program from which F08MEF (DBDSQR) is called.
Constraints:
  • if NCVT>0, LDVT max1,N ;
  • otherwise LDVT1.
10:   U(LDU,*) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
Note: the second dimension of the array U must be at least max1,N.
On entry: if NRU>0, U must contain an nru by n matrix. If the left singular vectors of B are required, nru=n and U must contain the unit matrix; if the left singular vectors of A are required, U must contain the orthogonal matrix Q returned by F08KFF (DORGBR) with VECT='Q' .
On exit: the nru by n matrix U or QU of left singular vectors, stored as columns of the matrix.
If NRU=0, U is not referenced.
11:   LDU – INTEGERInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array U as declared in the (sub)program from which F08MEF (DBDSQR) is called.
Constraint: LDU max1,NRU .
12:   C(LDC,*) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
Note: the second dimension of the array C must be at least max1,NCC.
On entry: the n by ncc matrix C if NCC>0.
On exit: C is overwritten by the matrix UTC. If NCC=0, C is not referenced.
13:   LDC – INTEGERInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array C as declared in the (sub)program from which F08MEF (DBDSQR) is called.
Constraints:
  • if NCC>0, LDC max1,N ;
  • otherwise LDC1.
14:   WORK(*) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayWorkspace
Note: the dimension of the array WORK must be at least max1,2×N if NCVT=0 and NRU=0 and NCC=0, and at least max1,4×N otherwise.
15:   INFO – INTEGEROutput
On exit: INFO=0 unless the routine detects an error (see Section 6).

6  Error Indicators and Warnings

Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
INFO<0
If INFO=-i, argument i had an illegal value. An explanatory message is output, and execution of the program is terminated.
INFO>0
The algorithm failed to converge and INFO specifies how many off-diagonals did not converge. In this case, D and E contain on exit the diagonal and off-diagonal elements, respectively, of a bidiagonal matrix orthogonally equivalent to B.

7  Accuracy

Each singular value and singular vector is computed to high relative accuracy. However, the reduction to bidiagonal form (prior to calling the routine) may exclude the possibility of obtaining high relative accuracy in the small singular values of the original matrix if its singular values vary widely in magnitude.
If σi is an exact singular value of B and σ~i is the corresponding computed value, then
σ~i - σi p m,n ε σi
where pm,n is a modestly increasing function of m and n, and ε is the machine precision. If only singular values are computed, they are computed more accurately (i.e., the function pm,n is smaller), than when some singular vectors are also computed.
If ui is the corresponding exact left singular vector of B, and u~i is the corresponding computed left singular vector, then the angle θu~i,ui between them is bounded as follows:
θ u~i,ui p m,n ε relgapi
where relgapi is the relative gap between σi and the other singular values, defined by
relgapi = min ij σi - σj σi + σj .
A similar error bound holds for the right singular vectors.

8  Further Comments

The total number of floating point operations is roughly proportional to n2 if only the singular values are computed. About 6n2×nru additional operations are required to compute the left singular vectors and about 6n2×ncvt to compute the right singular vectors. The operations to compute the singular values must all be performed in scalar mode; the additional operations to compute the singular vectors can be vectorized and on some machines may be performed much faster.
The complex analogue of this routine is F08MSF (ZBDSQR).

9  Example

This example computes the singular value decomposition of the upper bidiagonal matrix B, where
B = 3.62 1.26 0.00 0.00 0.00 -2.41 -1.53 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.92 1.19 0.00 0.00 0.00 -1.43 .
See also the example for F08KFF (DORGBR), which illustrates the use of the routine to compute the singular value decomposition of a general matrix.

9.1  Program Text

Program Text (f08mefe.f90)

9.2  Program Data

Program Data (f08mefe.d)

9.3  Program Results

Program Results (f08mefe.r)


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