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# scipy.sparse.linalg.onenormest

scipy.sparse.linalg.onenormest(A, t=2, itmax=5, compute_v=False, compute_w=False)

  Compute a lower bound of the 1-norm of a sparse matrix.

  Parameters:
    A ndarray or other linear operator

      A linear operator that can be transposed and that can produce matrix products.

    t int, optional

      A positive parameter controlling the tradeoff between accuracy versus time and memory usage. Larger values take longer and use more memory but give more accurate output.

    itmax int, optional

      Use at most this many iterations.

    compute_v bool, optional

      Request a norm-maximizing linear operator input vector if True.

    compute_w bool, optional

      Request a norm-maximizing linear operator output vector if True.

  Returns:
    est float

      An underestimate of the 1-norm of the sparse matrix.

    v ndarray, optional

      The vector such that ||Av||_1 == est*||v||_1. It can be thought of as an input to the linear operator that gives an output with particularly large norm.

    w ndarray, optional

      The vector Av which has relatively large 1-norm. It can be thought of as an output of the linear operator that is relatively large in norm compared to the input.

  Notes

  This is algorithm 2.4 of [1].

  In [2] it is described as follows. “This algorithm typically requires the evaluation of about 4t matrix-vector products and almost invariably produces a norm estimate (which is, in fact, a lower bound on the norm) correct to within a factor 3.”

  New in version 0.13.0.

  References

  [1]

  Nicholas J. Higham and Francoise Tisseur (2000), “A Block Algorithm for Matrix 1-Norm Estimation, with an Application to 1-Norm Pseudospectra.” SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 1185-1201.

  [2]

  Awad H. Al-Mohy and Nicholas J. Higham (2009), “A new scaling and squaring algorithm for the matrix exponential.” SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 970-989.

  Examples

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> from scipy.sparse import csc_matrix
      >>> from scipy.sparse.linalg import onenormest
      >>> A = csc_matrix([[1., 0., 0.], [5., 8., 2.], [0., -1., 0.]], dtype=float)
      >>> A.toarray()
      array([[ 1.,  0.,  0.],
             [ 5.,  8.,  2.],
             [ 0., -1.,  0.]])
      >>> onenormest(A)
      9.0
      >>> np.linalg.norm(A.toarray(), ord=1)
      9.0