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Dense Linear Algebra over Word-Size Prime Fields: the FFLAS and FFPACK packages

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In the past two decades, some major efforts have been made to reduce exact (e.g. integer, rational, polynomial) linear algebra problems to matrix multiplication in order to provide algorithms with optimal asymptotic complexity. To provide efficient implementations of such algorithms one need to be careful with the underlying arithmetic. It is well known that modular techniques such as the Chinese remainder algorithm or the p-adic lifting allow very good practical performance, especially when word size arithmetic are used. Therefore, finite field arithmetic becomes an important core for efficient exact linear algebra libraries. In this paper, we study high performance implementations of basic linear algebra routines over word size prime fields: specially the matrix multiplication; our goal being to provide an exact alternate to the numerical BLAS library. We show that this is made possible by a carefull combination of numerical computations and asymptotically faster algorithms. Our kernel has several symbolic linear algebra applications enabled by diverse matrix multiplication reductions: symbolic triangularization, system solving, determinant and matrix inverse implementations are thus studied.
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hal-00018223 , version 1 (30-01-2006)
hal-00018223 , version 2 (31-01-2006)
hal-00018223 , version 3 (10-12-2007)
hal-00018223 , version 4 (14-01-2009)

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Jean-Guillaume Dumas, Pascal Giorgi, Clément Pernet. Dense Linear Algebra over Word-Size Prime Fields: the FFLAS and FFPACK packages. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 2008, 35 (3), pp.19:1-42. ⟨10.1145/1391989.1391992⟩. ⟨hal-00018223v4⟩
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