Fast Summation

Fastsum algorithm

The fast summation algorithm evaluates the function

\[ f(\pmb{y}) \coloneqq \sum_{k=1}^{N} \alpha_k \ \mathscr{K} (\pmb{y}-\pmb{x}_k)\]

for given arbitrary source knots $\pmb{x}_k \in \mathbb{R}^d,\ k = 1, \ldots, N$ and a given kernel function $\mathscr{K}(\pmb{x}) \coloneqq K(\lVert \pmb{x} \rVert_2),\ \pmb{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d$. Here, $K$ is required to be infinitely differentiable at all points in $\mathbb{R}^d \setminus \{ 0 \}$. If $K$ is even infinitely differentiable at the origin, $\mathscr{K}$ is called nonsingular kernel function, otherwise singular kernel function.
The evaluation is done at $M$ different points $\pmb{y}_j \in \mathbb{R}^d,\ j=1,2, \ldots, M$. W.l.o.g. we assume $\pmb{y}_j \neq \pmb{x}_k \ (j\neq k)$, i.e., one wants to compute

\[ f(\pmb{y}_j) \coloneqq \sum_{k=1}^{N} \alpha_k \ \mathscr{K}(\pmb{y}_j-\pmb{x}_k), \qquad j=1,\ldots,M.\]

We replace $\mathscr{K}$ in the definition above by a periodic function. Hence, we assume $\lVert \pmb{y}_k \rVert_2 \leq \frac{1}{2} \ (\frac{1}{2} - \varepsilon_B)$ and $\lVert \pmb{x}_k \rVert_2 \leq \frac{1}{2} \ (\frac{1}{2} - \varepsilon_B)$ with $\varepsilon_B \in (0,0.5)$. By the triangle inequality, we conclude

\[ \pmb{x}_j-\pmb{x}_k \in [-\frac{1}{2}+\varepsilon_B, \frac{1}{2}-\varepsilon_B].\]

Next, we regularize the kernel near zero and $\pm 0.5$ to obtain the function

\[ K_R(r) \coloneqq \begin{cases} T_I(r) & \lvert r \rvert < \varepsilon_I \\ K(r) & \varepsilon_I < \lvert r \rvert \leq 0.5 - \varepsilon_B \\ T_B(\lvert r \rvert) & 0.5 - \varepsilon_B < \lvert r \rvert \leq 0.5 \end{cases}\]

with $0 < \varepsilon_I < 0.5 - \varepsilon_B$. Here, $T_I,\, T_B \in \mathcal{P}_{2p-1}$ are chosen such that the 1-periodic extension of $K_R$ is of class $\mathcal{C}^{p-1}$. Further details about the computation of $T_I, T_B$ are given in Chapter 7.5 of [Plonka, Potts, Steidl, Tasche, 2018].
We define

\[ \mathscr{K}_R(\pmb{x}) \coloneqq \begin{cases} K_R(\lVert \pmb{x} \rVert_2) & \lVert \pmb{x} \rVert_2 < 0.5 \\ T_B(0.5) & \lVert \pmb{x} \rVert_2 \geq 0.5 \end{cases}\]

Since $\mathscr{K}_R$ is sufficiently smooth, we replace it by its partial sum $\mathscr{K}_{RF}(\pmb{x}) \coloneqq \sum_{\pmb{\ell} \in I_n^d} b_{\pmb{\ell}}\, \mathrm{e}^{2\pi\mathrm{i} \, \pmb{\ell} \cdot \pmb{x}}$ and obtain $\mathscr{K} \approx \mathscr{K} - \mathscr{K}_R + \mathscr{K}_{RF}$. Using quadrature rules, we replace $b_{\pmb{\ell}}$ by

\[ b_{\pmb{\ell}} \coloneqq \frac{1}{n^d} \sum_{\pmb{h} \in I_n^d} \mathscr{K}_R(\frac{\pmb{h}}{n}) \, \mathrm{e}^{-2 \pi \mathrm{i} \, \pmb{h} \cdot \pmb{\ell} / n}, \quad \pmb{\ell} \in I_n^d \coloneqq [-\frac{n}{2},\frac{n}{2}]^d \cap \mathbb{Z}^d \]

Hence, we have to compute the nearfield sum

\[ f_{NE}(\pmb{x}) \coloneqq \sum_{k=1}^{N} \alpha_k \, \mathscr{K}_{NE}(\pmb{x}-\pmb{x}_k), \quad \mathscr{K}_{NE} \coloneqq \mathscr{K} - \mathscr{K}_R\]

and the far field sum

\[ f_{RF}(\pmb{x}) \coloneqq \sum_{k=1}^{N} \alpha_k \, \mathscr{K}_{RF} (\pmb{x}-\pmb{x}_k)\]

and approximate $f$ by $\tilde{f} \coloneqq f_{NE} + f_{RF}$.
From $\pmb{y}_j-\pmb{x}_k \in [-0.5+\varepsilon_B, 0.5-\varepsilon_B]$ and the definition of $K_R(\cdot)$ we conclude that for the evaluation of $f_{NE}$ we only need to consider $\pmb{x}$ fulfilling $\lVert \pmb{x} \rVert \leq \varepsilon_I$. Assuming a certain kind of uniform distribution of the $\pmb{y}_j,\ \pmb{x}_k$, we obtain an arithmetic cost of $\mathcal{O}(M)$.
For the evaluation of $f_{RF}(\cdot)$, we rearrange the sums

\[ f_{RF}(\pmb{y})= \sum_{k=1}^{N} \alpha_k \sum_{\pmb{\ell} \in I_n^d} b_{\pmb{\ell}} \ \mathrm{e}^{ 2\pi\mathrm{i} \, \pmb{\ell} \cdot ( \pmb{y} - \pmb{x}_k )} = \sum_{\pmb{\ell} \in I_n^d} b_{\pmb{\ell}}\, (\sum_{k=1}^{N} \alpha_k \ \mathrm{e}^{- 2\pi\mathrm{i} \,\pmb{\ell} \cdot \pmb{x}_k})\, \mathrm{e}^{2\pi\mathrm{i} \, \pmb{\ell} \cdot \pmb{y}}\]

where the inner sum can be computed by an adjoint NFFT which is then followed by a NFFT for the computation of the outer sum.

Pseudocode

Input: $\alpha_k \in \mathbb{C} \text{ for } k = 1, \ldots, N, \pmb{x}_k \in \mathbb{R}^d \text{ for } k = 1, \ldots, M \text{ with } \lVert \pmb{x}_k \rVert_2 \leq \frac{1}{2} \ (0.5 - \varepsilon_B), \pmb{y}_j \in \mathbb{R}^d \text{ for } j = 1, \ldots, M \text{ with } \lVert \pmb{y}_j \rVert_2 \leq \frac{1}{2} \ (0.5 - \varepsilon_B).$

Precomputation: Compute the polynomials $T_I$ and $T_B$. Compute $(b_{\pmb{\ell}})_{\pmb{\ell} \in I^d_n}$. Compute $\mathscr{K}_{NE}(\pmb{y}_j - \pmb{x}_k) \text{ for } j = 1, \ldots, M \text{ and } k \in I^{NE}_{\varepsilon_I}(j), \text{ where } I^{NE}_{\varepsilon_I}(j) \coloneqq \{ k \in \{ 1, \ldots, N \} \colon \lVert \pmb{y}_j - \pmb{x}_k \rVert_2 < \varepsilon_I \}$.

  1. For each $\pmb{\ell} \in I^d_n$ compute $a_{\pmb{\ell}} \coloneqq \sum^{N}_{k = 1} \alpha_k \, e^{ -2\pi \mathrm{i} \, \pmb{\ell} \cdot \pmb{x}_k}$ using the d-variate adjoint NFFT of size $n \times \ldots \times n$, see Algorithm 7.3 in [Plonka, Potts, Steidl, Tasche, 2018].
  2. For each $\pmb{\ell} \in I^d_n$ compute the products $d_{\pmb{\ell}} \coloneqq a_{\pmb{\ell}} b_{\pmb{\ell}}$.
  3. For $j = 1, \ldots, M$ compute the far field sums $f_{RF}(\pmb{y}_j) = \sum_{\pmb{\ell} \in I_n^d} d_{\pmb{\ell}} \, \mathrm{e}^{ 2\pi\mathrm{i} \, \pmb{\ell} \cdot \pmb{y}_j}$ using the d-variate NFFT of size $n \times \ldots \times n$, see Algorithm 7.1 in [Plonka, Potts, Steidl, Tasche, 2018].
  4. For $j = 1, \ldots, M$ compute the near field sums $f_{NE}(\pmb{y}_j) \coloneqq \sum_{k \in I^{NE}_{\varepsilon_I}(j)} \alpha_k \, \mathscr{K}_{NE}(\pmb{y}_j - \pmb{x}_k)$.
  5. For $j = 1, \ldots, M$ compute the near field corrections $\tilde{f}(\pmb{y}_j) \coloneqq f_{NE}(\pmb{y}_j) + f_{RF}(\pmb{y}_j)$.

Output: $\tilde{f}(\pmb{y}_j), \, j = 1, \ldots, M$, approximate values of $f(\pmb{y}_j)$.

Computational cost: $\mathcal{O}(m^d (M_1+M_2)+ n^d \log n)$

Plan structure

NFFT3.FASTSUMType
FASTSUM

The fast summation algorithm evaluates the function

\[f(\pmb{y}) \coloneqq \sum^{N}_{k = 1} \alpha_k \, \mathscr{K}(\pmb{y} - \pmb{x}_k) = \sum^{N}_{k = 1} \alpha_k \, K(\lVert \pmb{y} - \pmb{x}_k \rVert_2)\]

for given arbitrary source knots $\pmb{x}_k \in \mathbb{R}^d, k = 1,2, \cdots, N$ and a given kernel function $\mathscr{K}(\cdot) = K (\lVert \cdot \rVert_2), \; \pmb{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d$, which is an even, real univariate function which is infinitely differentiable at least in $\mathbb{R} \setminus \{ 0 \}$. If $K$ is infinitely differentiable at zero as well, then $\mathscr{K}$ is defined on $\mathbb{R}^d$ and is called nonsingular kernel function. The evaluation is done at $M$ different points $\pmb{y}_j \in \mathbb{R}^d, j = 1, \cdots, M$.

Fields

  • d - dimension.
  • N - number of source nodes.
  • M - number of target nodes.
  • n - expansion degree.
  • p - degree of smoothness.
  • kernel - name of kernel function $K$.
  • c - kernel parameters.
  • eps_I - inner boundary.
  • eps_B - outer boundary.
  • nn_x - oversampled nn in x.
  • nn_y - oversampled nn in y.
  • m_x - NFFT-cutoff in x.
  • m_y - NFFT-cutoff in y.
  • init_done - bool for plan init.
  • finalized - bool for finalizer.
  • flags - flags.
  • x - source nodes.
  • y - target nodes.
  • alpha - source coefficients.
  • f - target evaluations.
  • plan - plan (C pointer).

Constructor

FASTSUM( d::Integer, N::Integer, M::Integer, n::Integer, p::Integer, kernel::String, c::Vector{<:Real}, eps_I::Real, eps_B::Real, nn_x::Integer, nn_y::Integer, m_x::Integer, m_y::Integer, flags::UInt32 )

Additional Constructor

FASTSUM( d::Integer, N::Integer, M::Integer, n::Integer, p::Integer, kernel::String, c::Real, eps_I::Real, eps_B::Real, nn::Integer, m::Integer )

See also

NFFT

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