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In the reduced basis method, the evaluation of the a posteriori estimator can become very sensitive to round-off errors. In this note, the origin of the loss of accuracy is revealed, and a solution to this problem is proposed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Fabien Casenave

We derive a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem governed by a convection-reaction-diffusion equation; control constraints are also considered. We consider a family of low-order stabilized finite element methods to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin

Lloyd's algorithm is an iterative method that solves the quantization problem, i.e. the approximation of a target probability measure by a discrete one, and is particularly used in digital applications. This algorithm can be interpreted as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Léo Portales , Elsa Cazelles , Edouard Pauwels

In numeric-intensive computations, it is well known that the execution of floating-point programs is imprecise as floating-point arithmetic incurs round-off errors. Although round-off errors are small for a single floating-point operation,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xuran Cai , Liqian Chen , Hongfei Fu

The authors show that the round-off error can break the consistency which is the premise of using the difference equation to replace the original differential equations. We therefore proposed a theoretical approach to investigate this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-23 Wang Pengfei , Li Jianping

Computable estimates for the error of finite element discretisations of parabolic problems in the $L^\infty(0,T; L^2)$ norm are developed, which exhibit constant effectivities (the ratio of the estimated error to the true error) with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Oliver J. Sutton

Solving linear systems is a ubiquitous task in science and engineering. Because directly inverting a large-scale linear system can be computationally expensive, iterative algorithms are often used to numerically find the inverse. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Zheyuan Zhu , Andrew B. Klein , Guifang Li , Shuo Pang

Large deviations for additive path functionals of stochastic processes have attracted significant research interest, in particular in the context of stochastic particle systems and statistical physics. Efficient numerical `cloning'…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Letizia Angeli , Stefan Grosskinsky , Adam M. Johansen

We derive optimal order a posteriori error estimates for fully discrete approximations of linear Schr\"odinger-type equations, in the $L^\infty(L^2)-$norm. For the discretization in time we use the Crank-Nicolson method, while for the space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Theodoros Katsaounis , Irene Kyza

In various applications, computers are required to compute approximations to univariate elementary and special functions such as $\exp$ and $\arctan$ to modest accuracy. This paper proposes a new heuristic for automating the design of such…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Tor G. J. Myklebust

In this work, we propose an a pointwise a posteriori error estimator for conforming finite element approximations of eigenfunctions corresponding to multiple and clustered eigenvalues of elliptic operators. It is proven that the pointwise a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Zhenglei Li , Qigang Liang , Xuejun Xu

Probabilistic model checking computes probabilities and expected values related to designated behaviours of interest in Markov models. As a formal verification approach, it is applied to critical systems; thus we trust that probabilistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Arnd Hartmanns

Learning the governing equations in dynamical systems from time-varying measurements is of great interest across different scientific fields. This task becomes prohibitive when such data is moreover highly corrupted, for example, due to the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Giang Tran , Rachel Ward

There are several numerical methods for computing approximate zeros of a given univariate polynomial. In this paper, we develop a simple and novel method for determining sharp upper bounds on errors in approximate zeros of a given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 P. H. D. Ramakrishna , Sudebkumar Prasant Pal , Samir Bhalla , Hironmay Basu , Sudhir Kumar Singh

A solution for Smale's 17th problem, for the case of systems with bounded degree was recently given. This solution, an algorithm computing approximate zeros of complex polynomial systems in average polynomial time, assumed infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Irenee Briquel , Felipe Cucker , Javier Pena , Vera Roshchina

Our goal is to find accurate and efficient algorithms, when they exist, for evaluating rational expressions containing floating point numbers, and for computing matrix factorizations (like LU and the SVD) of matrices with rational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 James Demmel

State-of-the-art static analysis tools for verifying finite-precision code compute worst-case absolute error bounds on numerical errors. These are, however, often not a good estimate of accuracy as they do not take into account the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Anastasiia Izycheva , Eva Darulova

Simulation-based verification algorithms can provide formal safety guarantees for nonlinear and hybrid systems. The previous algorithms rely on user provided model annotations called discrepancy function, which are crucial for computing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Chuchu Fan , Sayan Mitra

We establish $L^p$ error estimates for monotone numerical schemes approximating Hamilton-Jacobi equations on the $d$-dimensional torus. Using the adjoint method, we first prove a $L^1$ error bound of order one for finite-difference and…

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