Publication detail

Pivoting Strategy for Fast LU decomposition of Sparse Block Matrices

POLOK, L. SMRŽ, P.

Original Title

Pivoting Strategy for Fast LU decomposition of Sparse Block Matrices

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Solving large linear systems is a fundamental task in many interesting problems, including finite element methods (FEM) or (non-)linear least squares (NLS), among others. Furthermore, the problems of interest here are sparse: not all the vertices in a typical FEM mesh are connected, or similarly not all vertices in a graphical inference model are linked by observations, as is the case in e.g. simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in robotics or bundle adjustment (BA) in computer vision. The two places where most of the time is spent in solving such problems are usually the sparse matrix assembly and solving the underlying linearized system. An interesting property of the above-mentioned problems is their block structure. It is given by the variables existing in a multi-dimensional space such as 2D, 3D or even se(3) and hence their respective derivatives being dense blocks of the corresponding dimension. In our previous work, we demonstrated the benefits of explicitly representing those blocks in the sparse matrix, namely reduced assembly time and increased efficiency of arithmetic operations. In this paper, we propose a novel implementation of sparse block LU decomposition and demonstrate its benefits on standard datasets. While not difficult to implement, the enabling feature is the pivoting strategy that makes the method numerically stable. The proposed algorithm is on average three times faster (over 50x faster in the best case), causes less fill-in and produces decompositions of comparable and often better precision than the conventional methods.

Keywords

LU decomposition, sparse matrix, block matrix, register blocking, direct methods.

Authors

POLOK, L.; SMRŽ, P.

Released

23. 4. 2017

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Location

Virginia Beach, VA

ISBN

978-1-5108-3822-2

Book

Proceedings of the 25th High Performance Computing Symposium

Pages from

1

Pages to

12

Pages count

12

URL

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT134093,
  author="Lukáš {Polok} and Pavel {Smrž}",
  title="Pivoting Strategy for Fast LU decomposition of Sparse Block Matrices",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 25th High Performance Computing Symposium",
  year="2017",
  pages="1--12",
  publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
  address="Virginia Beach, VA",
  doi="10.22360/SpringSim.2017.HPC.049",
  isbn="978-1-5108-3822-2",
  url="https://doi.org/10.22360/SpringSim.2017.HPC.049"
}