Stability analysis of the G-algorithm and a note on its application to sparse least squares problems

J. L. Barlow

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Abstract

The G-algorithm was proposed by Bareiss [1] as a method for solving the weighted linear least squares problem. It is a square root free algorithm similar to the fast Givens method except that it triangularizes a rectangular matrix a column at a time instead of one element at a time. In this paper an error analysis of the G-algorithm is presented which shows that it is as stable as any of the standard orthogonal decomposition methods for solving least squares problems. The algorithm is shown to be a competitive method for sparse least squares problems. A pivoting strategy is given for heavily weighted problems similar to that in [14] for the Householder-Golub algorithm. The strategy is prohibitively expensive, but it is not necessary for most of the least squares problems that arise in practice.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)507-520
Number of pages14
JournalBIT
Volume25
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1985

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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