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If you use Krylov.jl in your work, please cite it using the metadata given in CITATION.cff.
@article{montoison-orban-2023,
author = {Montoison, Alexis and Orban, Dominique},
title = {{Krylov.jl: A Julia basket of hand-picked Krylov methods}},
journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
volume = {8},
number = {89},
pages = {5187},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.21105/joss.05187}
}
This package provides implementations of certain of the most useful Krylov method for a variety of problems:
- Square or rectangular full-rank systems
Ax = b
should be solved when b lies in the range space of A. This situation occurs when
- A is square and nonsingular,
- A is tall and has full column rank and b lies in the range of A.
- Linear least-squares problems
minimize ‖b - Ax‖
should be solved when b is not in the range of A (inconsistent systems), regardless of the shape and rank of A. This situation mainly occurs when
- A is square and singular,
- A is tall and thin.
Underdetermined systems are less common but also occur.
If there are infinitely many such x (because A is column rank-deficient), one with minimum norm is identified
minimize ‖x‖ subject to x ∈ argmin ‖b - Ax‖.
- Linear least-norm problems
minimize ‖x‖ subject to Ax = b
should be solved when A is column rank-deficient but b is in the range of A (consistent systems), regardless of the shape of A. This situation mainly occurs when
- A is square and singular,
- A is short and wide.
Overdetermined systems are less common but also occur.
- Adjoint systems
Ax = b and Aᴴy = c
where A can have any shape.
- Saddle-point and Hermitian quasi-definite systems
[M A] [x] = [b]
[Aᴴ -N] [y] [c]
where A can have any shape.
- Generalized saddle-point and non-Hermitian partitioned systems
[M A] [x] = [b]
[B N] [y] [c]
where A can have any shape and B has the shape of Aᴴ. A, B, b and c must be all nonzero.
Krylov solvers are particularly appropriate in situations where such problems must be solved but a factorization is not possible, either because:
- A is not available explicitly,
- A would be dense or would consume an excessive amount of memory if it were materialized,
- factors would consume an excessive amount of memory.
Iterative methods are recommended in either of the following situations:
- the problem is sufficiently large that a factorization is not feasible or would be slow,
- an effective preconditioner is known in cases where the problem has unfavorable spectral structure,
- the operator can be represented efficiently as a sparse matrix,
- the operator is fast, i.e., can be applied with better complexity than if it were materialized as a matrix. Certain fast operators would materialize as dense matrices.
All solvers in Krylov.jl have in-place version, are compatible with GPU and work in any floating-point data type.
Krylov can be installed and tested through the Julia package manager:
julia> ]
pkg> add Krylov
pkg> test KrylovIf you think you found a bug, feel free to open an issue. Focused suggestions and requests can also be opened as issues. Before opening a pull request, start an issue or a discussion on the topic, please.
If you want to ask a question not suited for a bug report, feel free to start a discussion here. This forum is for general discussion about this repository and the JuliaSmoothOptimizers organization, so questions about any of our packages are welcome.