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We present a class of reduced basis (RB) methods for the iterative solution of parametrized symmetric positive-definite (SPD) linear systems. The essential ingredients are a Galerkin projection of the underlying parametrized system onto a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen , Yanlai Chen

In this paper, we propose an adaptive fast solver for a general class of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices which include the well-known graph Laplacian. We achieve this by developing an adaptive operator compression scheme and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Thomas Y. Hou , D. Huang , K. C. Lam , P. Zhang

We propose $\textsf{ScaledGD($\lambda$)}$, a preconditioned gradient descent method to tackle the low-rank matrix sensing problem when the true rank is unknown, and when the matrix is possibly ill-conditioned. Using overparametrized factor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xingyu Xu , Yandi Shen , Yuejie Chi , Cong Ma

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is known to be an effective solver for many sparse symmetric positive definite (SPD) linear systems. For SPD systems, the convergence theory of AMG is well-understood in terms of the $A$-norm, but in a nonsymmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ahsan Ali , James Brannick , Karsten Kahl , Oliver A. Krzysik , Jacob B. Schroder , Ben S. Southworth

This paper introduces a preconditioned method designed to comprehensively address the saddle point system with the aim of improving convergence efficiency. In the preprocessor construction phase, a technical approach for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Juan Zhang , Yiyi Luo

Although some preconditioners are available for solving dense linear systems, there are still many matrices for which preconditioners are lacking, in particular in cases where the size of the matrix $N$ becomes very large. There remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Pieter Coulier , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

We develop a parallel-in-time multigrid preconditioner for augmented systems. These saddle-point systems are foundational to numerical optimization. Our preconditioner, when paired with a suitable optimization method, accelerates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Radoslav Vuchkov , Eric C. Cyr , Aurya Javeed , Denis Ridzal

This paper introduces a fully algebraic two-level additive Schwarz preconditioner for general sparse large-scale matrices. The preconditioner is analyzed for symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices. For those matrices, the coarse space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Hussam Al Daas , Pierre Jolivet , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

In this paper, we describe and analyze the spectral properties of a symmetric positive definite inexact block preconditioner for a class of symmetric, double saddle-point linear systems. We develop a spectral analysis of the preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Luca Bergamaschi , Angeles Martinez , John Pearson , Andreas Potschka

A linearly implicit conservative difference scheme is applied to discretize the attractive coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with fractional Laplacian. Complex symmetric linear systems can be obtained, and the system matrices are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Yan Cheng , Xi Yang

To precondition a large and sparse linear system, two direct methods for approximate factoring of the inverse are devised. The algorithms are fully parallelizable and appear to be more robust than the iterative methods suggested for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Mikko Byckling , Marko Huhtanen

Preconditioners are generally essential for fast convergence in the iterative solution of linear systems of equations. However, the computation of a good preconditioner can be expensive. So, while solving a sequence of many linear systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Arielle Grim-McNally , Eric de Sturler , Serkan Gugercin

We develop a simple algorithmic framework to solve large-scale symmetric positive definite linear systems. At its core, the framework relies on two components: (1) a norm-convergent iterative method (i.e. smoother) and (2) a preconditioner.…

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A grid-overlay finite difference method is proposed for the numerical approximation of the fractional Laplacian on arbitrary bounded domains. The method uses an unstructured simplicial mesh and an overlay uniform grid for the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Weizhang Huang , Jinye Shen

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is often an effective solver for symmetric positive definite (SPD) linear systems resulting from the discretization of general elliptic PDEs, or the spatial discretization of parabolic PDEs. However, convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Thomas A. Manteuffel , Steffen Munzenmaier , John Ruge , Ben S. Southworth

Polynomial preconditioning is an important tool in solving large linear systems and eigenvalue problems. A polynomial from GMRES can be used to precondition restarted GMRES and restarted Arnoldi. Here we give methods for indefinite matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Hayden Henson , Ronald B. Morgan

We consider the problem of finding the optimal diagonal preconditioner for a positive definite matrix. Although this problem has been shown to be solvable and various methods have been proposed, none of the existing approaches are scalable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Wenzhi Gao , Zhaonan Qu , Madeleine Udell , Yinyu Ye

The main computational cost of algorithms for computing reduced-order models of parametric dynamical systems is in solving sequences of very large and sparse linear systems. We focus on efficiently solving these linear systems, arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Navneet Pratap Singh , Kapil Ahuja

We focus on inverse preconditioners based on minimizing $F(X) = 1-\cos(XA,I)$, where $XA$ is the preconditioned matrix and $A$ is symmetric and positive definite. We present and analyze gradient-type methods to minimize $F(X)$ on a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Jean-Paul Chehab , Marcos Raydan