torch.linalg.householder_product

torch.linalg.householder_product(A, tau, *, out=None) → Tensor

Computes the first n columns of a product of Householder matrices.

Let $\mathbb{K}$ be $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$, and let $V \in \mathbb{K}^{m \times n}$ be a matrix with columns $v_i \in \mathbb{K}^m$ for $i=1,\ldots,m$ with $m \geq n$. Denote by $w_i$ the vector resulting from zeroing out the first $i-1$ components of $v_i$ and setting to 1 the $i$-th. For a vector $\tau \in \mathbb{K}^k$ with $k \leq n$, this function computes the first $n$ columns of the matrix

$$H_1H_2 ... H_k \qquad\text{with}\qquad H_i = \mathrm{I}_m - \tau_i w_i w_i^{\text{H}}$$

where $\mathrm{I}_m$ is the m-dimensional identity matrix and $w^{\text{H}}$ is the conjugate transpose when $w$ is complex, and the transpose when $w$ is real-valued. The output matrix is the same size as the input matrix A.

See Representation of Orthogonal or Unitary Matrices for further details.

Supports inputs of float, double, cfloat and cdouble dtypes. Also supports batches of matrices, and if the inputs are batches of matrices then the output has the same batch dimensions.

See also

torch.geqrf() can be used together with this function to form the Q from the qr() decomposition.

torch.ormqr() is a related function that computes the matrix multiplication of a product of Householder matrices with another matrix. However, that function is not supported by autograd.

Warning

Gradient computations are only well-defined if $tau_i \neq \frac{1}{||v_i||^2}$. If this condition is not met, no error will be thrown, but the gradient produced may contain NaN.

Parameters

• A (Tensor) – tensor of shape (*, m, n) where * is zero or more batch dimensions.
• tau (Tensor) – tensor of shape (*, k) where * is zero or more batch dimensions.

Keyword Arguments

out (Tensor, optional) – output tensor. Ignored if None. Default: None.

Raises

RuntimeError – if A doesn’t satisfy the requirement m >= n, or tau doesn’t satisfy the requirement n >= k.

Examples:

>>> A = torch.randn(2, 2)
>>> h, tau = torch.geqrf(A)
>>> Q = torch.linalg.householder_product(h, tau)
>>> torch.dist(Q, torch.linalg.qr(A).Q)
tensor(0.)

>>> h = torch.randn(3, 2, 2, dtype=torch.complex128)
>>> tau = torch.randn(3, 1, dtype=torch.complex128)
>>> Q = torch.linalg.householder_product(h, tau)
>>> Q
tensor([[[ 1.8034+0.4184j,  0.2588-1.0174j],
        [-0.6853+0.7953j,  2.0790+0.5620j]],

        [[ 1.4581+1.6989j, -1.5360+0.1193j],
        [ 1.3877-0.6691j,  1.3512+1.3024j]],

        [[ 1.4766+0.5783j,  0.0361+0.6587j],
        [ 0.6396+0.1612j,  1.3693+0.4481j]]], dtype=torch.complex128)