Using Eigen in Windows

Using Eigen in Windows

Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:25 pm

hello,
i'm using MSVC 2008 and trying to compute SVD.
i'm testing with a matrix as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition#Example.

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const int m = 4, n = 5;
MatrixXf A = MatrixXf(m, n); /* this is just a test, so i don't mind how much resource is used */
A <<
   1, 0, 0, 0, 2,
   0, 0, 3, 0, 0,
   0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
   0, 4, 0, 0, 0;
cout << A.svd().singularValues();


in Debug Mode, after trying to run the code the output was:

Assertion failed: index >= 0 && index < size(), file c:\program files\eigen2\eigen\src\core\coeffs.h, line 186

in Release Mode, the output was correct but the application still crashes and an error message box from visual studio is showed up (a screenshot: http://aurodeus.freehostia.com/skripsi/error.html)

any idea?

btw, in my real project i will need to set the values for each matrix element separately, so how to set values for each A(m,n) separately?
and since i'm working with Windows Forms Application (not a Console Application as above) i will need to get the Singular Values separately also and then convert them to String, so how to get the Singular Values separately?
many thanks before!

hello,
i'm using MSVC 2008 and trying to compute SVD.
i'm testing with a matrix as in [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition#Example[/url].
[code]
const int m = 4, n = 5;
MatrixXf A = MatrixXf(m, n); /* this is just a test, so i don't mind how much resource is used */
A <<
1, 0, 0, 0, 2,
0, 0, 3, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 4, 0, 0, 0;
cout << A.svd().singularValues();
[/code]

in [b]Debug Mode[/b], after trying to run the code the output was:
[quote]
Assertion failed: index >= 0 && index < size(), file c:\program files\eigen2\eigen\src\core\coeffs.h, line 186
[/quote]

in [b]Release Mode[/b], the output was correct but the application still crashes and an error message box from visual studio is showed up (a screenshot: [url]http://aurodeus.freehostia.com/skripsi/error.html[/url])

any idea?

btw, in my real project i will need to set the values for each matrix element separately, so [u]how to set values for each A(m,n) separately[/u]?
and since i'm working with Windows Forms Application (not a Console Application as above) i will need to get the Singular Values separately also and then convert them to String, so [u]how to get the Singular Values separately[/u]?
many thanks before!

[bjacob]

Re: Using Eigen in Windows

Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:20 pm

First of all, you seem primarily interested in SVD, which to be honest isn't the greatest aspect of Eigen 2.0 (where we explicitly say that it is experimental). I'd recommend you to either try the development branch, or re-evaluate Eigen when we release the next major version.

in Debug Mode, after trying to run the code the output was:

Assertion failed: index >= 0 && index < size(), file c:\program files\eigen2\eigen\src\core\coeffs.h, line 186



in Release Mode, the output was correct but the application still crashes and an error message box from visual studio is showed up (a screenshot: http://aurodeus.freehostia.com/skripsi/error.html)

any idea?

Yes, in Eigen 2.0 the SVD is only for MxN matrices with M>=N. I just added an assert to guard that. In the devel branch, JacobiSVD already does that.

how to set values for each A(m,n) separately?

As explained in the tutorial, just do A(m,n) = value;

how to get the Singular Values separately?

Not sure what you mean. matrix.svd().singularValues() returns you the vector of singular values. We don't offer yet a way to compute only one singular value, but be aware that if you start from a general matrix, computing just one singular value is almost as expensive as calculating them all. Only when you have e.g. a bidiagonal matrix, is there an optimization opportunity here.

First of all, you seem primarily interested in SVD, which to be honest isn't the greatest aspect of Eigen 2.0 (where we explicitly say that it is experimental). I'd recommend you to either try the development branch, or re-evaluate Eigen when we release the next major version.

[quote]in Debug Mode, after trying to run the code the output was:

Assertion failed: index >= 0 && index < size(), file c:\program files\eigen2\eigen\src\core\coeffs.h, line 186



in Release Mode, the output was correct but the application still crashes and an error message box from visual studio is showed up (a screenshot: http://aurodeus.freehostia.com/skripsi/error.html)

any idea?[/quote]
Yes, in Eigen 2.0 the SVD is only for MxN matrices with M>=N. I just added an assert to guard that. In the devel branch, JacobiSVD already does that.

[quote]how to set values for each A(m,n) separately?[/quote]
As explained in the tutorial, just do A(m,n) = value;

[quote]how to get the Singular Values separately?[/quote]
Not sure what you mean. matrix.svd().singularValues() returns you the vector of singular values. We don't offer yet a way to compute only one singular value, but be aware that if you start from a general matrix, computing just one singular value is almost as expensive as calculating them all. Only when you have e.g. a bidiagonal matrix, is there an optimization opportunity here.

Re: Using Eigen in Windows

Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:14 pm

yeah i'm only interested in SVD because my i'm assigned to compute the matrix using SVD ok thanks for your reply

yeah i'm only interested in SVD because my i'm assigned to compute the matrix using SVD ;D ok thanks for your reply ;D