TY - JOUR
AU - Winkelmann, Jan
AU - Di Napoli, Edoardo
TI - Non-linear Least-Squares Optimization of Rational Filters for the Solution of Interior Hermitian Eigenvalue Problems
JO - Frontiers in applied mathematics and statistics
VL - 5
SN - 2297-4687
CY - Lausanne
PB - Frontiers Media
M1 - FZJ-2019-01374
SP - 5
PY - 2019
AB - Rational filter functions can be used to improve convergence of contour-based eigensolvers, a popular family of algorithms for the solution of the interior eigenvalue problem. We present a framework for the optimization of rational filters based on a non-convexweighted Least-Squares scheme. When used in combination with a contour based eigensolvers library, our filters out-perform existing ones on a large and representative set of benchmark problems. This work provides a detailed description of: (1) a set up of the optimization process that exploits symmetries of the filter function for Hermitian eigenproblems, (2) a formulation of the gradient descent and Levenberg-Marquardt algorithms that exploits the symmetries, (3) a method to select the starting position for theoptimization algorithms that reliably produces effective filters, (4) a constrained optimization scheme that produces filter functions with specific properties that may be beneficial to the performance of the eigensolver that employs them.
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DO - DOI:10.3389/fams.2019.00005
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/860709
ER -