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We investigate the use of possibly the simplest scheme for the parallelisation of the standard particle filter, that consists in splitting the computational budget into $M$ fully independent particle filters with $N$ particles each, and…

Computation · Statistics 2015-10-12 Dan Crisan , Joaquin Miguez , Gonzalo Rios

Inverse problem or parameter estimation of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), the iterative process of minimizing the mismatch between model-predicted and experimental states by tuning the parameter values within an optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Siddharth Prabhu , Srinivas Rangarajan , Mayuresh Kothare

Many practical applications require solving an optimization over large and high-dimensional data sets, which makes these problems hard to solve and prohibitively time consuming. In this paper, we propose a parallel distributed algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Elad Gilboa , Phani Chavali , Peng Yang , Arye Nehorai

We consider the parallel-in-time solution of hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) systems in one spatial dimension, both linear and nonlinear. In the nonlinear setting, the discretized equations are solved with a preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 O. A. Krzysik , H. De Sterck , R. D. Falgout , J. B. Schroder

Unlike conventional grid and mesh based methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), neural networks have the potential to break the curse of dimensionality, providing approximate solutions to problems where using classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Marc Finzi , Andres Potapczynski , Matthew Choptuik , Andrew Gordon Wilson

The advent of efficient interior point optimization methods has enabled the tractable solution of large-scale linear and nonlinear programming (NLP) problems. A prominent example of such a method is seen in Ipopt, a widely-used, open-source…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Byron Tasseff , Carleton Coffrin , Andreas Wächter , Carl Laird

Recursive blocked algorithms have proven to be highly efficient at the numerical solution of the Sylvester matrix equation and its generalizations. In this work, we show that these algorithms extend in a seamless fashion to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Minhong Chen , Daniel Kressner

In this work, we develop a new fast algorithm, spaQR -- sparsified QR, for solving large, sparse linear systems. The key to our approach is using low-rank approximations to sparsify the separators in a Nested Dissection based Householder QR…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Eric Darve

Inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used in science and engineering. Although such problems are generally ill-posed, different regularisation approaches have been developed to ameliorate this problem.…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-23 Jan Povala , Ieva Kazlauskaite , Eky Febrianto , Fehmi Cirak , Mark Girolami

In this article we present a parallel modular algorithm to compute all solutions with multiplicities of a given zero-dimensional polynomial system of equations over the rationals. In fact, we compute a triangular decomposition using…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Deeba Afzal , Faira Kanwal , Gerhard Pfister , Stefan Steidel

We are interested in solving linear systems arising from three applications: (1) kernel methods in machine learning, (2) discretization of boundary integral equations from mathematical physics, and (3) Schur complements formed in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Chao Chen , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of several convex non-smooth functions. We introduce a new algorithm called the selective linearization method, which iteratively linearizes all but one of the functions and employs simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Yu Du , Xiaodong Lin , Andrzej Ruszczynski

In this paper, direction-of-arrival estimation using nested array is studied in the framework of sparse signal representation. With the vectorization operator, a new real-valued nonnegative sparse signal recovery model which has a wider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Yunmei Shi , Xing-Peng Mao , Chunlei Zhao , Yong-Tan Liu

We present a fast sparse matrix permutation algorithm tailored to linear systems arising from triangle meshes. Our approach produces nested-dissection-style permutations while significantly reducing permutation runtime overhead. Rather than…

We present a highly scalable algorithm for multiplying sparse multivariate polynomials represented in a distributed format. This algo- rithm targets not only the shared memory multicore computers, but also computers clusters or specialized…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-04-01 Mickael Gastineau , Jacques Laskar

Positive linear programs (LP), also known as packing and covering linear programs, are an important class of problems that bridges computer science, operations research, and optimization. Despite the consistent efforts on this problem, all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Lorenzo Orecchia

Processors with large numbers of cores are becoming commonplace. In order to take advantage of the available resources in these systems, the programming paradigm has to move towards increased parallelism. However, increasing the level of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Ashkan Tousimojarad , Wim Vanderbauwhede

We derive a new parallel-in-time approach for solving large-scale optimization problems constrained by time-dependent partial differential equations arising from fluid dynamics. The solver involves the use of a block circulant approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Bernhard Heinzelreiter , John W. Pearson

Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of different mechanical systems. In this paper, we introduce an iterative procedure for the solution of discrete variational equations for boundary value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Sebastián J. Ferraro , David Martín de Diego , Rodrigo Takuro Sato Martín de Almagro

The Parareal algorithm is used to solve time-dependent problems considering multiple solvers that may work in parallel. The key feature is a initial rough approximation of the solution that is iteratively refined by the parallel solvers. We…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Loïc Michel