On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:48:31 -0700 (PDT)
Lou Pecora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have run into a failure of complex SVD in numpy
> (version='1.0.3.1'). The error is:
>
> File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/linalg/linalg.py",
> line 767, in svd
> raise LinAlgError, 'SVD did not converge'
> numpy.linalg.linalg.LinAlgError: SVD did not converge
>
> The matrix is complex 36 x 36. Very slight changes in
> the matrix components (~ one part in 10^4) are enough
> to make the error go away. I have never seen this
> before and it goes against the fact (I think it's a
> mathematical fact) that SVD always exists. A
> hard-coded upper limit on the iteration number allowed
> somewhere in the SVD C code seems to be the problem.
> Read on.
>
> A google search turned up a few messages, included
> this one from 2002 where the same error occurred
> infrequently, but randomly (it seemed):
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> One online message in August 2002:
>
> Ok, so after several hours of trying to read that
> code, I found
> the parameter that needs to be tuned. In case anyone
> has this
> problem and finds this thread a year from now, here's
> your hint:
>
>File: Src/dlapack_lite.c
> Subroutine: dlasd4_
> Line: 22562
>
> There's a for loop there that limits the number of
> iterations to
> 20. Increasing this value to 50 allows my matrix to
> converge.
> I have not bothered to test what the "best" value for
> this number
> is, though. In any case, it appears the number just
> exists to
> prevent infinite loops, and 50 isn't really that much
> closer to
> infinity than 20.... (Actually, I'm just going to set
> it to 100
> so I don't have to think about it ever again.)
>
> Damian Menscher
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>
> I have looked in Src/dlapack_lite.c and line 22562 is
> no longer a line that sets a max. iterations
> parameter. There are several set in the file, but
> that code is hard to figure (sort of a Fortran-in-C
> hybrid).
>
> Here's one, for example:
>
> maxit = *n * 6 * *n; // Line 887
>
> I have no idea which parameter to tweak. Apparently
> this error is still in numpy (at least to my version).
> Does anyone have a fix? Should I start a ticket (I
> think this is what people do)? Any help appreciated.
>
Please can you post your matrix (in MatrixMarket format
io.mmwrite) to the list.
Cheers,
Nils
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