How to obtain the minimum square full rank sub-matrix in a sparse matrix?
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Dear All,
For a given sparse matrix, I am looking for the minimum square full-rank sub-matrix which is formed by nonzero columns for the selected rows.
If we know the rows in the sparse matrix A to be selected, the minimum square sub-matrix which should be full rank can be obtained using the following steps:
- Select the rows (we should know which rows to select);
- Remove all the zero columns, then we get a sub-matrix B, which should be square and full rank.
For example, a given sparse matrix as below:
A =[1 0 -1 0 0 0 0
-1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 -1 0 -1
-1 3 0 0 0 -1 0
0 -1 0 0 0 1 0
4 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0
-1 0 0 2 -1 0 0
0 0 0 -1 2 0 0
0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1];
The minimum square matrix is 3 by 3 for the example given above, which is formed by rows 2, 4 and 5 (please note: all nonzero elements in these 3 rows must be considered). B = [-1 -1 0 0 0 0 0; -1 3 0 0 0 -1 0; 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0]. Discard the zero columns in B, we obtain the minimum full-rank square matrix is: [-1 -1 0; -1 3 -1; 0 -1 1].
I am wondering if there exist Matlab functions to find the minimum square full rank sub-matrix for a given sparse matrix. The sparse matrix size is 1000 by 1000.
Thanks a lot and happy holidays.
Benson
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Matt J
2018-12-4
编辑:Matt J
2018-12-4
It seems to me that the question is equivalent to the following: find a permutation of the rows and columns of A achieving the block triangular form
[P 0
Q R]
with the smallest possible non-singular matrix P. (If you can do this, then P will be the desired sub-matrix.)
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Matt J
2018-12-4
编辑:Matt J
2018-12-4
This article may help: Computing the Block Triangular Form of a Sparse Matrix by Alex Pothen and Chin-Ju Fan. They talk about something called the "Dulmage–Mendelsohn decomposition", which I notice Matlab also has a command for DMPERM.
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Bruno Luong
2020-8-1
I revisit this thread as Benson Gou just accepted one of the old question and I remember this question that I have not able to understand.
But just as I participate lately many post on graph, I would comment a property of graph: for adjacent matrix of the graph, there is a relation ship between connected component of the graph.
When we reorders the node by group of connected components, the matrix become block diagonal (and each block is likely full-rank).
Just a comment, I still don't understand the question asked by Benson.
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