FEAST as a subspace iteration eigensolver accelerated by approximate spectral projection

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DOI10.1137/13090866XzbMATH Open1303.65018arXiv1302.0432OpenAlexW2964332084MaRDI QIDQ2923348FDOQ2923348


Authors: Ping Tak Peter Tang, Eric Polizzi Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 15 October 2014

Published in: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The calculation of a segment of eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenvectors of a Hermitian matrix or matrix pencil has many applications. A new density-matrix-based algorithm has been proposed recently and a software package FEAST has been developed. The density-matrix approach allows FEAST's implementation to exploit a key strength of modern computer architectures, namely, multiple levels of parallelism. Consequently, the software package has been well received, especially in the electronic structure community. Nevertheless, theoretical analysis of FEAST has lagged. For instance, the FEAST algorithm has not been proven to converge. This paper offers a detailed numerical analysis of FEAST. In particular, we show that the FEAST algorithm can be understood as an accelerated subspace iteration algorithm in conjunction with the Rayleigh-Ritz procedure. The novelty of FEAST lies in its accelerator which is a rational matrix function that approximates the spectral projector onto the eigenspace in question. Analysis of the numerical nature of this approximate spectral projector and the resulting subspaces generated in the FEAST algorithm establishes the algorithm's convergence. This paper shows that FEAST is resilient against rounding errors and establishes properties that can be leveraged to enhance the algorithm's robustness. Finally, we propose an extension of FEAST to handle non-Hermitian problems and suggest some future research directions.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0432




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