The Joint Bidiagonalization Method for Large GSVD Computations in Finite Precision

Abstract

The joint bidiagonalization (JBD) method has been used to compute some extreme generalized singular values and vectors of a large regular matrix pair . We make a numerical analysis of the underlying JBD process and establish relationships between it and two mathematically equivalent Lanczos bidiagonalizations in finite precision. Based on the results of numerical analysis, we investigate the convergence of the approximate generalized singular values and vectors of . The results show that, under some mild conditions, the semiorthogonality of Lanczos-type vectors suffices to deliver approximate generalized singular values with the same accuracy as the full orthogonality does, meaning that it is only necessary to seek for efficient semiorthogonalization strategies for the JBD process. We establish a sharp bound for the residual norm of an approximate generalized singular value and corresponding approximate right generalized singular vectors, which can reliably estimate the residual norm without explicitly computing the approximate right generalized singular vectors before the convergence occurs.