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We study a nonlinear decomposition of a positive definite matrix into two components: the inverse of another positive definite matrix and a symmetric matrix constrained to lie in a prescribed linear subspace. Equivalently, the inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Yan Dolinsky , Or Zuk

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) still is the workhorse for many practical problems. However, it converges slow, and can be difficult to tune. It is possible to precondition SGD to accelerate its convergence remarkably. But many attempts…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-23 Xi-Lin Li

Here we consider the factorized sparse approximate inverse (FSAI) preconditioner. We apply the FSAI preconditioner to singular irreducible M-matrices. These matrices arise e.g. in discrete Markov chain modeling or as graph Laplacians. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Katherina Bick , Reinhard Nabben

Hardware trends have motivated the development of mixed precision algo-rithms in numerical linear algebra, which aim to decrease runtime while maintaining acceptable accuracy. One recent development is the development of an adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Noaman Khan , Erin Carson

We study the solution of large symmetric positive-definite linear systems in a matrix-free setting with a limited iteration budget. We focus on the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) method with spectral preconditioning. Spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Youssef Diouane , Selime Gürol , Oussama Mouhtal , Dominique Orban

This work is concerned with the numerical solution of large-scale symmetric positive definite matrix equations of the form $A_1XB_1^\top + A_2XB_2^\top + \dots + A_\ell X B_\ell^\top = F$, as they arise from discretized partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Ivan Bioli , Daniel Kressner , Leonardo Robol

When solving linear systems with nonsymmetric Toeplitz or multilevel Toeplitz matrices using Krylov subspace methods, the coefficient matrix may be symmetrized. The preconditioned MINRES method can then be applied to this symmetrized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Jennifer Pestana

We propose an adaptive multigrid preconditioning technology for solving linear systems arising from Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations. Unlike standard multigrid techniques, this preconditioner involves only trace spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

We propose a two-level iterative scheme for solving general sparse linear systems. The proposed scheme consists of a sparse preconditioner that increases the skew-symmetric part and makes the main diagonal of the coefficient matrix as close…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Murat Manguoglu , Volker Mehrmann

In this work, we propose an absolute value block $\alpha$-circulant preconditioner for the minimal residual (MINRES) method to solve an all-at-once system arising from the discretization of wave equations. Motivated by the absolute value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Xue-lei Lin , Sean Hon

This paper deals with the fast solution of linear systems associated with the mass matrix, in the context of isogeometric analysis. We propose a preconditioner that is both efficient and easy to implement, based on a diagonal-scaled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Gabriele Loli , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

Due to its significance in terms of wave phenomena a considerable effort has been put into the design of preconditioners for the Helmholtz equation. One option to derive a preconditioner is to apply a multigrid method on a shifted operator.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Daniel Drzisga , Tobias Köppl , Barbara Wohlmuth

In this paper we propose an efficiently preconditioned Newton method for the computation of the leftmost eigenpairs of large and sparse symmetric positive definite matrices. A sequence of preconditioners based on the BFGS update formula is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Luca Bergamaschi , Angeles Martinez

The solution of systems of linear(ized) equations lies at the heart of many problems in Scientific Computing. In particular for systems of large dimension, iterative methods are a primary approach. Stationary iterative methods are generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Andy Wathen

Preconditioning has long been a staple technique in optimization, often applied to reduce the condition number of a matrix and speed up the convergence of algorithms. Although there are many popular preconditioning techniques in practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Zhaonan Qu , Wenzhi Gao , Oliver Hinder , Yinyu Ye , Zhengyuan Zhou

This work aims to accelerate the convergence of proximal gradient methods used to solve regularized linear inverse problems. This is achieved by designing a polynomial-based preconditioner that targets the eigenvalue spectrum of the normal…

We consider effective preconditioners for solving Laplacians of general weighted graphs. Theoretically, spectral sparsifiers (SSs) provide preconditioners of optimal computational complexity. However, they are not easy to use for real-world…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Xiaozhe Hu , Junyuan Lin

Linear systems arise in generating samples and in calculating observables in lattice quantum chromodynamics~(QCD). Solving the Hermitian positive definite systems, which are sparse but ill-conditioned, involves using iterative methods, such…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-15 Yixuan Sun , Srinivas Eswar , Yin Lin , William Detmold , Phiala Shanahan , Xiaoye Li , Yang Liu , Prasanna Balaprakash

The performance of finite element solvers on modern computer architectures is typically memory bound for sufficiently large problems. The main cause for this is that loading matrix elements from RAM into CPU cache is significantly slower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Denis Davydov , Jean-Paul Pelteret , Daniel Arndt , Paul Steinmann

A preconditioning theory is presented which establishes sufficient conditions for multiplicative and additive Schwarz algorithms to yield self-adjoint positive definite preconditioners. It allows for the analysis and use of non-variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Michael Holst , Stefan Vandewalle