eigsPlus provides an enhanced, alternative version to the MATLAB routine
eigs, supported on
MATLAB R2012b and later and Octave, providing the following
features:
eigs routine,
which will return the eigenvalues as a diagonal matrix when
eigenvectors are always requested.
eigs would throw an error; on these versions,
eigsPlus will instead throw a warning.
On R2017a, eigs also adopted the same convention of
throwing a warning instead of an error. However, on R2017b,
eigs no longer throws a warning or an error. To
maintain consistency, as of R2017b, eigsPlus also
no longer throws a warning. Recall in the case that no Ritz
value converges, the returned eigenvalues and eigenvectors will
be empty.
flag, has been
repurposed to return the number of iterations that is incurred;
the user can always equivalently check if the number of
eigenvalues returned is less than what the user requested by
checking the dimensions of the eigenvalue and/or eigenvector
output arguments.
For R2017a and earlier, this is the number of ARPACK iterations.
On newer releases, this is the number of Krylov Schur iterations
but note that for problems with symmetric positive definite B
matrices using shift-invert, the Krylov Schur method may be
restarted once, if the first fails; in this case, the number of
iterations is the sum of two attempts.
opts.isreal = false to force the complex ARPACK
routines to be used even if matrix A is real and opts.v0 is either
real or complex. MATLABs's eigs would throw an error in either of
these cases. eigsPlus will throw an error in either of these cases
if opts.isreal is either not provided or if it is set to true.
patch command, supporting
patches created with diff -u, must
be available on the system terminal
md5 command must also be available on the
system terminal
patch and md5
commands should already be present.
Windows users may need to install these tools themselves.
makeEigsPlus();
to install eigsPlus for the currently running version of
MATLAB. It will either print a confirmation of successful
installation or throw an error detailing why eigsPlus
could not be installed.
makeEigsPlus() to update your
eigsPlus installation. The eigsPlus command
will throw an error if eigsPlus is not installed for
the currently running version of MATLAB.
help eigsPlus
help makeEigsPlus
help cleanEigsPlus
eigs, call the
eigsPlus command, which share identical input arguments.
While the output arguments of eigsPlus are not exactly
identical to the output arguments of eigs, migrating preexisting
code should still be extremely straightforward.
Note that the first call to
eigsPlus may be a slightly longer than subsequent
calls, due to initialization cost. Though this is likely
to be insignificant, it is nonetheless prudent to make sure
eigsPlus is called at least once before conducting
sensitive timing experiments.
If you publish work that either refers to or makes use of
eigsPlus, please cite both its name and version number,
e.g. eigsPlus v2.1. Note that eigsPlus, in monospaced
font, refers to the command/routine, not the name of the
software package.
eigsPlus is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.