Title
Ordering, Anisotropy, and Factored Sparse Approximate Inverses
Abstract
We consider ordering techniques to improve the performance of factored sparse approximate inverse preconditioners, concentrating on the AINV technique of M. Benzi and M. T\r{u}ma. Several practical existing unweighted orderings are considered along with a new algorithm, minimum inverse penalty (MIP), that we propose. We show how good orderings such as these can improve the speed of preconditioner computation dramatically and also demonstrate a fast and fairly reliable way of testing how good an ordering is in this respect. Our test results also show that these orderings generally improve convergence of Krylov subspace solvers but may have difficulties particularly for anisotropic problems. We then argue that weighted orderings, which take into account the numerical values in the matrix, will be necessary for such systems. After developing a simple heuristic for dealing with anisotropy we propose several practical algorithms to implement it. While these show promise, we conclude a better heuristic is required for robustness.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1137/S1064827598335842
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
conjugate gradient-type methods,preconditioner,approximate inverse,ordering methods,anisotropy
Convergence (routing),Krylov subspace,Conjugate gradient method,Inverse,Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Preconditioner,Algorithm,Robustness (computer science),Mathematics,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
3
1064-8275
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
2.22
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
ROBERT BRIDSON154627.92
Wei-Pai Tang29634.36