Robust Rayleigh quotient minimization and nonlinear eigenvalue problems

Zhaojun Bai; Ding Lu; Bart Vandereycken

doi:10.1137/18M1167681

Robust Rayleigh quotient minimization and nonlinear eigenvalue problems

Zhaojun Bai, Ding Lu, Bart Vandereycken

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Abstract

We study the robust Rayleigh quotient optimization problem where the data matrices of the Rayleigh quotient are subject to uncertainties. We propose to solve such a problem by exploiting its characterization as a nonlinear eigenvalue problem with eigenvector nonlinearity (NEPv). For solving the NEPv, we show that a commonly used iterative method can be divergent due to a wrong ordering of the eigenvalues. Two strategies are introduced to address this issue: a spectral transformation based on nonlinear shifting and a reformulation using second-order derivatives. Numerical experiments for applications in robust generalized eigenvalue classification, robust common spatial pattern analysis, and robust linear discriminant analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	A3495-A3522
Journal	SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Volume	40
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1167681
State	Published - 2018

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∗Submitted to the journal’s Methods and Algorithms for Scientific Computing section January 29, 2018; accepted for publication (in revised form) August 1, 2018; published electronically October 18, 2018. http://www.siam.org/journals/sisc/40-5/M116768.html Funding: The first author was supported in part by NSF grants DMS-1522697 and CCF-1527091, and the second author by SNSF project 169115. †Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 ([email protected]). ‡Department of Mathematics, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland (Ding.Lu@ unige.ch, [email protected]). The first author was supported in part by NSF grants DMS-1522697 and CCF-1527091, and the second author by SNSF project 169115.

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	CCF-1527091, DMS-1522697
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	169115
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program

Keywords

Nonlinear eigenvalue problems
Rayleigh quotient
Robust optimization
Self-consistent-field iteration

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Computational Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

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