On greedy randomized coordinate updating iteration methods for solving symmetric eigenvalue problems

In order to compute the smallest eigenvalue and its corresponding eigenvector of a large-scale, real, and symmetric matrix, we propose a class of greedy randomized coordinate updating iteration methods based on the principle that the indices of larger entries in absolute value of the current residual are selected with a higher probability and, with respect to this index set, the next iterate is updated from the current iterate along with the selected coordinate such that the corresponding entry of the residual is annihilated, resulting in fast convergence rates of the proposed iteration methods. Under appropriate conditions, we prove the convergence of both sequences of the Rayleigh-quotients and the acute angles between the iterates and the eigenvector in terms of the expectation. By numerical experiments, we show that this class of greedy randomized coordinate updating iteration methods are advantageous over the parameterized power method and the coordinate descent method in both iteration counts and computing times. Moreover, with theoretical analysis and computational performance, we confirm that the convergence property of this class of iteration methods can be improved significantly by suitably choosing the arbitrary nonnegative parameter involved in the greedy probability criterion.