[Numpy-discussion] Strange behaviour of linalg.svd() and linalg.eigh()

Matthieu Brucher matthieu.brucher at gmail.com
Fri May 16 13:37:48 EDT 2008


Hi,

I tried using Matlab with the same matrix and its eig() function. It can
diagonalize the matrix with a correct result, which is not the case for
linalg.eigh().
Strange.

Matthieu

2008/4/17 Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Ive implemented the classical MultiDimensional Scaling for the scikit learn
> using both functions. Their behavior surprised me for "big" arrays (10000 by
> 10000, symmetric as it is a similarity matrix).
> linalg.svd() raises a memory error because it tries to allocate a
> (7000000,) array (in fact bigger than that !). This is strange because the
> test was made on a 64bits Linux, so memory should not have been a problem.
> linalg.eigh() fails to diagonalize the matrix, it gives me NaN as a result,
> and this is not very useful.
> A direct optimization of the underlying cost function can give me an
> adequate solution.
>
> I cannot attach the matrix file (more than 700MB when pickled), but if
> anyone has a clue, I'll be glad.
>
> Matthieu
> --
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