Performant Scaling of BlockDiagLinearOperator by DiagLinearOperator

linear_operator/operators/_linear_operator.py

@@ -559,12 +559,7 @@ def _mul_matrix(self, other: Union[torch.Tensor, "LinearOperator"]) -> LinearOpe
         if isinstance(self, DenseLinearOperator) or isinstance(other, DenseLinearOperator):
             return DenseLinearOperator(self.to_dense() * other.to_dense())
         else:
-            left_linear_op = self if self._root_decomposition_size() < other._root_decomposition_size() else other
-            right_linear_op = other if left_linear_op is self else self
-            return MulLinearOperator(
-                left_linear_op.root_decomposition(),
-                right_linear_op.root_decomposition(),
-            )
+            return MulLinearOperator(self, other)
 
     def _preconditioner(self) -> Tuple[Callable, "LinearOperator", torch.Tensor]:
         """

linear_operator/operators/block_diag_linear_operator.py

@@ -153,8 +153,10 @@ def matmul(self, other):
             return BlockDiagLinearOperator(self.base_linear_op @ other.base_linear_op)
         # special case if we have a DiagLinearOperator
         if isinstance(other, DiagLinearOperator):
-            diag_reshape = other._diag.view(*self.base_linear_op.shape[:-2], 1, -1)
-            return BlockDiagLinearOperator(self.base_linear_op * diag_reshape)
+            # matmul is going to be cheap because of the special casing in DiagLinearOperator
+            diag_reshape = other._diag.view(*self.base_linear_op.shape[:-1])
+            diag = DiagLinearOperator(diag_reshape)
+            return BlockDiagLinearOperator(self.base_linear_op @ diag)
         return super().matmul(other)
 
     @cached(name="svd")

linear_operator/operators/cat_linear_operator.py

@@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ def _unsqueeze_batch(self, dim):
         )
         return res
 
+    def to_dense(self):
+        return torch.cat([to_dense(L) for L in self.linear_ops], dim=self.cat_dim)
+
     def inv_quad_logdet(self, inv_quad_rhs=None, logdet=False, reduce_inv_quad=True):
         res = super().inv_quad_logdet(inv_quad_rhs, logdet, reduce_inv_quad)
         return tuple(r.to(self.device) for r in res)

linear_operator/operators/dense_linear_operator.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def __init__(self, tsr):
         Args:
         - tsr (Tensor: matrix) a Tensor
         """
-        super(DenseLinearOperator, self).__init__(tsr)
+        super().__init__(tsr)
         self.tensor = tsr
 
     def _cholesky_solve(self, rhs, upper=False):
@@ -76,13 +76,7 @@ def __add__(self, other):
         elif isinstance(other, torch.Tensor):
             return DenseLinearOperator(self.tensor + other)
         else:
-            return super(DenseLinearOperator, self).__add__(other)
-
-    def mul(self, other):
-        if isinstance(other, DenseLinearOperator):
-            return DenseLinearOperator(self.tensor * other.tensor)
-        else:
-            return super(DenseLinearOperator, self).mul(other)
+            return super().__add__(other)
 
 
 def to_linear_operator(obj: Union[torch.Tensor, LinearOperator]) -> LinearOperator:

linear_operator/operators/diag_linear_operator.py

@@ -65,16 +65,6 @@ def _get_indices(
         res = res * torch.eq(row_index, col_index).to(device=res.device, dtype=res.dtype)
         return res
 
-    def _matmul(self, rhs: Tensor) -> Tensor:
-        # to perform matrix multiplication with diagonal matrices we can just
-        # multiply element-wise with the diagonal (using proper broadcasting)
-        if rhs.ndimension() == 1:
-            return self._diag * rhs
-        # special case if we have a DenseLinearOperator
-        if isinstance(rhs, DenseLinearOperator):
-            return DenseLinearOperator(self._diag.unsqueeze(-1) * rhs.tensor)
-        return self._diag.unsqueeze(-1) * rhs
-
     def _mul_constant(self, constant: Tensor) -> "DiagLinearOperator":
         return self.__class__(self._diag * constant.unsqueeze(-1))
 
@@ -164,20 +154,29 @@ def log(self) -> "DiagLinearOperator":
         return self.__class__(self._diag.log())
 
     def matmul(self, other: Union[Tensor, LinearOperator]) -> Union[Tensor, LinearOperator]:
-        # this is trivial if we multiply two DiagLinearOperators
         if isinstance(other, DiagLinearOperator):
             return DiagLinearOperator(self._diag * other._diag)
-        # special case if we have a DenseLinearOperator
-        if isinstance(other, DenseLinearOperator):
-            return DenseLinearOperator(self._diag.unsqueeze(-1) * other.tensor)
-        # special case if we have a BlockDiagLinearOperator
-        if isinstance(other, BlockDiagLinearOperator):
-            diag_reshape = self._diag.view(*other.base_linear_op.shape[:-1], 1)
-            return BlockDiagLinearOperator(diag_reshape * other.base_linear_op)
+        elif isinstance(other, BlockDiagLinearOperator):
+            diag_reshape = self._diag.view(*other.base_linear_op.shape[:-1])
+            diag = DiagLinearOperator(diag_reshape)
+            # using matmul here avoids having to implement special case of elementwise multiplication
+            # with block diagonal operator, which itself has special cases for vectors and matrices
+            return BlockDiagLinearOperator(diag @ other.base_linear_op)
         # special case if we have a TriangularLinearOperator
-        if isinstance(other, TriangularLinearOperator):
-            return TriangularLinearOperator(self._diag.unsqueeze(-1) * other._tensor, upper=other.upper)
-        return super().matmul(other)
+        elif isinstance(other, TriangularLinearOperator):
+            return TriangularLinearOperator(self @ other._tensor, upper=other.upper)
+        elif isinstance(other, DenseLinearOperator):
+            return DenseLinearOperator(self @ other.tensor)
+        else:
+            return super().matmul(other)
+
+    def _matmul(self, other: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        # to perform matrix multiplication with diagonal matrices we can just
+        # multiply element-wise with the diagonal (using proper broadcasting)
+        diag = self._diag
+        if other.ndimension() > 1:
+            diag = diag.unsqueeze(-1)
+        return diag * other
 
     def solve(self, right_tensor: Tensor, left_tensor: Optional[Tensor] = None) -> Tensor:
         res = self.inverse()._matmul(right_tensor)

linear_operator/operators/mul_linear_operator.py

@@ -22,11 +22,14 @@ def __init__(self, left_linear_op, right_linear_op):
         Args:
             - linear_ops (A list of LinearOperator) - A list of LinearOperator to multiplicate with.
         """
+        if left_linear_op._root_decomposition_size() < right_linear_op._root_decomposition_size():
+            left_linear_op, right_linear_op = right_linear_op, left_linear_op
+
         if not isinstance(left_linear_op, RootLinearOperator):
             left_linear_op = left_linear_op.root_decomposition()
         if not isinstance(right_linear_op, RootLinearOperator):
             right_linear_op = right_linear_op.root_decomposition()
-        super(MulLinearOperator, self).__init__(left_linear_op, right_linear_op)
+        super().__init__(left_linear_op, right_linear_op)
         self.left_linear_op = left_linear_op
         self.right_linear_op = right_linear_op
 
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@ def _matmul(self, rhs):
             left_res = left_res.view(*output_batch_shape, n, rank, m)
             res = left_res.mul_(left_root.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(-2)
         # This is the case where we're not doing a root decomposition, because the matrix is too small
-        else:
+        else:  # Dead?
             res = (self.left_linear_op.to_dense() * self.right_linear_op.to_dense()).matmul(rhs)
         res = res.squeeze(-1) if is_vector else res
         return res