Analysis of randomized CholeskyQR for sparse matrices

Abstract

This work is about rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR-type algorithms for sparse matrices. We often encounter QR factorization of the sparse matrices in many real problems. In this work, we focus on some typical CholeskyQR-type algorithms with matrix sketching, which is a popular randomized technique in recent years. We build a new model of the sparse matrices and provide rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR-type algorithms for the sparse cases with this model. We make comparison between the bounds with different models of sparsity both theoretically and experimentally. Numerical experiments show some new phenomena of randomized CholeskyQR-type algorithms for the sparse cases, which do not occur in the common sparse cases. We also test the applicability, accuracy, efficiency and robustness of randomized CholeskyQR-type algorithms for sparse matrices.