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Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with discontinuous diffusion coefficients occur in application domains such as diffusions through porous media, electro-magnetic field propagation on heterogeneous media, and diffusion…

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We explore a scaled spectral preconditioner for the efficient solution of sequences of symmetric and positive-definite linear systems. We design the scaled preconditioner not only as an approximation of the inverse of the linear system but…

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We introduce a fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient method for convex minimization problems involving total variation regularization on multidimensional domains. It relies on alternatively updating an active set of subsets of…

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We describe and analyze preconditioned steepest descent (PSD) solvers for fourth and sixth-order nonlinear elliptic equations that include p-Laplacian terms on periodic domains in 2 and 3 dimensions. The highest and lowest order terms of…

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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) exhibits strong algorithmic regularization effects in practice and plays an important role in the generalization of modern machine learning. However, prior research has revealed instances where the…

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We investigate the application of the additive overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition method as a preconditioner for the large sparse linear systems arising in graph-based nonlinear least-squares problems, specifically the pose-graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Stephan Köhler , Oliver Rheinbach , Yue Xiang Tee , Sebastian Zug

The paper looks at a scaled variant of the stochastic gradient descent algorithm for the matrix completion problem. Specifically, we propose a novel matrix-scaling of the partial derivatives that acts as an efficient preconditioning for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Bamdev Mishra , Rodolphe Sepulchre

This article presents a general approach akin to domain-decomposition methods to solve a single linear PDE, but where each subdomain of a partitioned domain is associated to a distinct variational formulation coming from a mutually…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Federico Fuentes , Brendan Keith , Leszek Demkowicz , Patrick Le Tallec

Inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs) with discontinuous coefficients are fundamental challenges in modeling complex spatiotemporal systems with heterogeneous structures and uncertain dynamics. Traditional…

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We present and analyze a preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCG) for solving spatial network problems. Primarily, we consider diffusion and structural mechanics simulations for fiber based materials, but the methodology can be…

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The paper introduces the sweeping preconditioner, which is highly efficient for iterative solutions of the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation including very high frequency problems. The first central idea of this novel approach is to…

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We propose a new approach to learning the subgrid-scale model when simulating partial differential equations (PDEs) solved by the method of lines and their representation in chaotic ordinary differential equations, based on neural ordinary…

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PDDSparse is a new hybrid parallelisation scheme for solving large-scale elliptic boundary value problems on supercomputers, which can be described as a Feynman-Kac formula for domain decomposition. At its core lies a stochastic linear,…

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We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

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This paper is concerned with developing accurate and efficient discontinuous Galerkin methods for fully nonlinear second order elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the case of one spatial dimension. The primary…

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We examine the use of a two-level deflation preconditioner combined with GMRES to locally solve the subdomain systems arising from applying domain decomposition methods to Helmholtz problems. Our results show that the direct solution method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Niall Bootland , Vandana Dwarka , Pierre Jolivet , Victorita Dolean , Cornelis Vuik

Low-rank matrix estimation is a canonical problem that finds numerous applications in signal processing, machine learning and imaging science. A popular approach in practice is to factorize the matrix into two compact low-rank factors, and…

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Achieving robust control and optimization in high-fidelity physics simulations is extremely challenging, especially for evolutionary systems whose solutions span vast scales across space, time, and physical variables. In conjunction with…

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Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on fine spatio-temporal scales for high-fidelity solutions is critical for numerous scientific breakthroughs. Yet, this process can be prohibitively expensive, owing to the inherent complexities…

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