NAG CL Interface
f08kcc (dgelsd)

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1 Purpose

f08kcc computes the minimum norm solution to a real linear least squares problem
minx b-Ax2 .  

2 Specification

#include <nag.h>
void  f08kcc (Nag_OrderType order, Integer m, Integer n, Integer nrhs, double a[], Integer pda, double b[], Integer pdb, double s[], double rcond, Integer *rank, NagError *fail)
The function may be called by the names: f08kcc, nag_lapackeig_dgelsd or nag_dgelsd.

3 Description

f08kcc uses the singular value decomposition (SVD) of A, where A is a real m×n matrix which may be rank-deficient.
Several right-hand side vectors b and solution vectors x can be handled in a single call; they are stored as the columns of the m×r right-hand side matrix B and the n×r solution matrix X.
The problem is solved in three steps:
  1. 1.reduce the coefficient matrix A to bidiagonal form with Householder transformations, reducing the original problem into a ‘bidiagonal least squares problem’ (BLS);
  2. 2.solve the BLS using a divide-and-conquer approach;
  3. 3.apply back all the Householder transformations to solve the original least squares problem.
The effective rank of A is determined by treating as zero those singular values which are less than rcond times the largest singular value.

4 References

Anderson E, Bai Z, Bischof C, Blackford S, Demmel J, Dongarra J J, Du Croz J J, Greenbaum A, Hammarling S, McKenney A and Sorensen D (1999) LAPACK Users' Guide (3rd Edition) SIAM, Philadelphia https://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug
Golub G H and Van Loan C F (1996) Matrix Computations (3rd Edition) Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

5 Arguments

1: order Nag_OrderType Input
On entry: the order argument specifies the two-dimensional storage scheme being used, i.e., row-major ordering or column-major ordering. C language defined storage is specified by order=Nag_RowMajor. See Section 3.1.3 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for a more detailed explanation of the use of this argument.
Constraint: order=Nag_RowMajor or Nag_ColMajor.
2: m Integer Input
On entry: m, the number of rows of the matrix A.
Constraint: m0.
3: n Integer Input
On entry: n, the number of columns of the matrix A.
Constraint: n0.
4: nrhs Integer Input
On entry: r, the number of right-hand sides, i.e., the number of columns of the matrices B and X.
Constraint: nrhs0.
5: a[dim] double Input/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array a must be at least
  • max(1,pda×n) when order=Nag_ColMajor;
  • max(1,m×pda) when order=Nag_RowMajor.
The (i,j)th element of the matrix A is stored in
  • a[(j-1)×pda+i-1] when order=Nag_ColMajor;
  • a[(i-1)×pda+j-1] when order=Nag_RowMajor.
On entry: the m×n coefficient matrix A.
On exit: the contents of a are destroyed.
6: pda Integer Input
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array a.
Constraints:
  • if order=Nag_ColMajor, pdamax(1,m);
  • if order=Nag_RowMajor, pdamax(1,n).
7: b[dim] double Input/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array b must be at least
  • max(1,pdb×nrhs) when order=Nag_ColMajor;
  • max(1,max(1,m,n)×pdb) when order=Nag_RowMajor.
The (i,j)th element of the matrix B is stored in
  • b[(j-1)×pdb+i-1] when order=Nag_ColMajor;
  • b[(i-1)×pdb+j-1] when order=Nag_RowMajor.
On entry: the m×r right-hand side matrix B.
On exit: b is overwritten by the n×r solution matrix X. If mn and rank=n, the residual sum of squares for the solution in the ith column is given by the sum of squares of elements n+1,,m in that column.
8: pdb Integer Input
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array b.
Constraints:
  • if order=Nag_ColMajor, pdbmax(1,m,n);
  • if order=Nag_RowMajor, pdbmax(1,nrhs).
9: s[dim] double Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array s must be at least max(1,min(m,n)) .
On exit: the singular values of A in decreasing order.
10: rcond double Input
On entry: used to determine the effective rank of A. Singular values s[i-1]rcond×s[0] are treated as zero. If rcond<0, machine precision is used instead.
11: rank Integer * Output
On exit: the effective rank of A, i.e., the number of singular values which are greater than rcond×s[0].
12: fail NagError * Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_ALLOC_FAIL
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.1.2 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_BAD_PARAM
On entry, argument value had an illegal value.
NE_CONVERGENCE
The algorithm for computing the SVD failed to converge; value off-diagonal elements of an intermediate bidiagonal form did not converge to zero.
NE_INT
On entry, m=value.
Constraint: m0.
On entry, n=value.
Constraint: n0.
On entry, nrhs=value.
Constraint: nrhs0.
On entry, pda=value.
Constraint: pda>0.
On entry, pdb=value.
Constraint: pdb>0.
NE_INT_2
On entry, pda=value and m=value.
Constraint: pdamax(1,m).
On entry, pda=value and n=value.
Constraint: pdamax(1,n).
On entry, pdb=value and nrhs=value.
Constraint: pdbmax(1,nrhs).
NE_INT_3
On entry, pdb=value, m=value and n=value.
Constraint: pdbmax(1,m,n).
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR
An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
See Section 7.5 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_NO_LICENCE
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.

7 Accuracy

See Section 4.5 of Anderson et al. (1999) for details.

8 Parallelism and Performance

Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
f08kcc is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.
f08kcc makes calls to BLAS and/or LAPACK routines, which may be threaded within the vendor library used by this implementation. Consult the documentation for the vendor library for further information.
Please consult the X06 Chapter Introduction for information on how to control and interrogate the OpenMP environment used within this function. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.

9 Further Comments

The complex analogue of this function is f08kqc.

10 Example

This example solves the linear least squares problem
minx b-Ax2  
for the solution, x, of minimum norm, where
A = ( -0.09 -1.56 -1.48 -1.09 0.08 -1.59 0.14 0.20 -0.43 0.84 0.55 -0.72 -0.46 0.29 0.89 0.77 -1.13 1.06 0.68 1.09 -0.71 2.11 0.14 1.24 1.29 0.51 -0.96 -1.27 1.74 0.34 )   and  b= ( 7.4 4.3 -8.1 1.8 8.7 ) .  
A tolerance of 0.01 is used to determine the effective rank of A.

10.1 Program Text

Program Text (f08kcce.c)

10.2 Program Data

Program Data (f08kcce.d)

10.3 Program Results

Program Results (f08kcce.r)