Title
Direct optimization of BPX preconditioners
Abstract
We consider an automatic construction of locally optimal preconditioners for positive definite linear systems. To achieve this goal, we introduce a differentiable loss function that does not explicitly include the estimation of minimal eigenvalue. Nevertheless, the resulting optimization problem is equivalent to a direct minimization of the condition number. To demonstrate our approach, we construct a parametric family of modified BPX preconditioners. Namely, we define a set of empirical basis functions for coarse finite element spaces and tune them to achieve better condition number. For considered model equations (that includes Poisson, Helmholtz, Convection–diffusion, Biharmonic, and others), we achieve from two to twenty times smaller condition numbers for symmetric positive definite linear systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.cam.2021.113811
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Multigrid,Boundary value problems,PDE,BPX,Preconditioning,Numerical linear algebra
Journal
402
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0377-0427
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivan V. Oseledets130641.96
Vladimir Fanaskov200.34