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A parallel fast direct solver for rank-compressible block tridiagonal linear systems is presented. Algorithmic synergies between Cyclic Reduction and Hierarchical matrix arithmetic operations result in a solver with $O(N \log^2 N)$…

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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…

This paper is devoted to the efficient numerical solution of the Helmholtz equation in a two- or three-dimensional rectangular domain with an absorbing boundary condition (ABC). The Helmholtz problem is discretized by standard bilinear and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Jari Toivanen , Monika Wolfmayr

Several different approaches are proposed for solving fully implicit discretizations of a simplified Boltzmann-Poisson system with a linear relaxation-type collision kernel. This system models the evolution of free electrons in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. Paul Laiu , Zheng Chen , Cory D. Hauck

We describe an efficient algorithm for computing the matrix vector products that appear in the numerical resolution of boundary integral equations in 2 space dimension. This work is an extension of the so-called Sparse Cardinal Sine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Martin Averseng

In this paper, we propose fast solvers for Maxwell's equations in rectangular domains. We first discretize the simplified Maxwell's eigenvalue problems by employing the lowest-order rectangular N\'ed\'elec elements and derive the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Lixiu Wang , Lueling Jia , Zijian Cao , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

The discretization of certain integral equations, e.g., the first-kind Fredholm equation of Laplace's equation, leads to symmetric positive-definite linear systems, where the coefficient matrix is dense and often ill-conditioned. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Chao Chen , George Biros

We present a new paradigm for speeding up randomized computations of several frequently used functions in machine learning. In particular, our paradigm can be applied for improving computations of kernels based on random embeddings. Above…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-26 Krzysztof Choromanski , Francois Fagan

The dense matrix resulting from an integral equation (IE) based solution of Maxwell's equations can be compactly represented by an ${\cal H}^2$-matrix. Given a general dense ${\cal H}^2$-matrix, prevailing fast direct solutions involve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Miaomiao Ma , Dan Jiao

The multi-frontal direct solver is the state-of-the-art algorithm for the direct solution of sparse linear systems. This paper provides computational complexity and memory usage estimates for the application of the multi-frontal direct…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Nathan Collier , David Pardo , Maciej Paszynski , Victor M. Calo

We developed fast direct solver for 3D Helmholtz and Maxwell equations in layered medium. The algorithm is based on the ideas of cyclic reduction for separable matrices. For the grids with major uniform part (within the survey domain in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Vladimir Druskin , Mikhail Zaslavsky

The numerical simulation of structural mechanics applications via finite elements usually requires the solution of large-size and ill-conditioned linear systems, especially when accurate results are sought for derived variables interpolated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Andrea Franceschini , Victor A. Paludetto Magri , Gianluca Mazzucco , Nicolò Spiezia , Carlo Janna

In this article, we consider fast direct solvers for nonlocal operators. The pivotal idea is to combine a wavelet representation of the system matrix, yielding a quasi-sparse matrix, with the nested dissection ordering scheme. The latter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Helmut Harbrecht , Michael Multerer

Directional interpolation is a fast and efficient compression technique for high-frequency Helmholtz boundary integral equations, but it requires a very large amount of storage in its original form. Algebraic recompression can significantly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Steffen Börm , Janne Henningsen

An algorithm for the direct inversion of the linear systems arising from Nystrom discretization of integral equations on one-dimensional domains is described. The method typically has O(N) complexity when applied to boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-27 Adrianna Gillman , Patrick Young , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We propose a new approximate factorization for solving linear systems with symmetric positive definite sparse matrices. In a nutshell the algorithm is to apply hierarchically block Gaussian elimination and additionally compress the fill-in.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Daria A. Sushnikova , Ivan V. Oseledets

We present a sparse linear system solver that is based on a multifrontal variant of Gaussian elimination, and exploits low-rank approximation of the resulting dense frontal matrices. We use hierarchically semiseparable (HSS) matrices, which…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye S. Li , Francois-Henry Rouet , Samuel Williams , Artem Napov

Efficient solutions of large-scale, ill-conditioned and indefinite algebraic equations are ubiquitously needed in numerous computational fields, including multiphysics simulations, machine learning, and data science. Because of their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiaoye Sherry Li , Yang Liu

In this paper, we introduce novel fast matrix inversion algorithms that leverage triangular decomposition and recurrent formalism, incorporating Strassen's fast matrix multiplication. Our research places particular emphasis on triangular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Mohamed Kamel Riahi

This survey describes a class of methods known as "fast direct solvers". These algorithms address the problem of solving a system of linear equations $\boldsymbol{Ax}=\boldsymbol{b}$ arising from the discretization of either an elliptic PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Per-Gunnar Martinsson , Michael O'Neil