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Causal structure learning has been a challenging task in the past decades and several mainstream approaches such as constraint- and score-based methods have been studied with theoretical guarantees. Recently, a new approach has transformed…

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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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We present a novel linear solver that works well for large systems obtained from discretizing PDEs. It is robust and, for the examples we studied, the computational effort scales linearly with the number of equations. The algorithm is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Klaus Lackner , Ralph Menikoff

Learning a causal directed acyclic graph from data is a challenging task that involves solving a combinatorial problem for which the solution is not always identifiable. A new line of work reformulates this problem as a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Philippe Brouillard , Sébastien Lachapelle , Alexandre Lacoste , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Alexandre Drouin

Topology optimization for large scale problems continues to be a computational challenge. Several works exist in the literature to address this topic, and all make use of iterative solvers to handle the linear system arising from the Finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Darin Peetz , Ahmed Elbanna

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) solvers and preconditioners are some of the fastest numerical methods to solve linear systems, particularly in a parallel environment, scaling to hundreds of thousands of cores. Most AMG methods and theory assume a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Ben S. Southworth , Thomas A. Manteuffel , John Ruge

Graph-based techniques and spectral graph theory have enriched the field of machine learning with a variety of critical advances. A central object in the analysis is the graph Laplacian L, which encodes the structure of the graph. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Daniele Calandriello , Ioannis Koutis , Alessandro Lazaric , Michal Valko

The Lagrangian of a hypergraph is a crucial tool for studying hypergraph extremal problems. Though Lagrangians of some special structure hypergraphs have closed-form solutions, it is a challenging problem to compute the Lagrangian of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Jingya Chang , Bin Xiao , Xin Zhang

Efficient numerical solvers for partial differential equations empower science and engineering. One of the commonly employed numerical solvers is the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm which can solve large systems to a given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Yichen Li , Peter Yichen Chen , Tao Du , Wojciech Matusik

In this paper, we revisit an auxiliary space preconditioning method proposed by Xu [Computing 56, 1996], in which low-order finite element spaces are employed as auxiliary spaces for solving linear algebraic systems arising from high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-13 Young-Ju Lee , Wei Leng , Chen-Song Zhang

We present an efficient numerical method, inspired by transformation optics, for solving the Poisson equation in complex and arbitrarily shaped geometries. The approach operates by mapping the physical domain to a uniform computational…

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In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for program optimization which is based on aggressive aggregation, i.e., on a partial evaluation-based decomposition of acyclic program fragments into a pair of computationally optimal structures: an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Frederik Gossen , Marc Jasper , Alnis Murtovi , Bernhard Steffen

This paper considers a high-dimensional linear regression problem where there are complex correlation structures among predictors. We propose a graph-constrained regularization procedure, named Sparse Laplacian Shrinkage with the Graphical…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-10 Yuehan Yang , Siwei Xia , Hu Yang

The construction of a meaningful graph plays a crucial role in the success of many graph-based representations and algorithms for handling structured data, especially in the emerging field of graph signal processing. However, a meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Xiaowen Dong , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard , Pierre Vandergheynst

Complex networks can model a range of different systems, from the human brain to social connections. Some of those networks have a large number of nodes and links, making it impractical to analyze them directly. One strategy to simplify…

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This paper introduces a material-aware strength-of-connection measure for smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid methods, aimed at improving robustness for scalar partial differential equations with heterogeneous and anisotropic material…

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The scalable solution of large sparse linear systems is a bottleneck in scientific computing and graph analysis. While algebraic multigrid (AMG) offers optimal linear scaling, its performance is severely constrained by the trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yali Fink , Ido Ben-Yair , Lars Ruthotto , Eran Treister

Recently, several data analytic techniques based on connection graph laplacian (CGL) ideas have appeared in the literature. At this point, the properties of these methods are starting to be understood in the setting where the data is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Noureddine El Karoui , Hau-tieng Wu

In this work we propose a graph-based learning framework to train models with provable robustness to adversarial perturbations. In contrast to regularization-based approaches, we formulate the adversarially robust learning problem as one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Vishaal Krishnan , Abed AlRahman Al Makdah , Fabio Pasqualetti

The conjugate gradient method is a widely used algorithm for the numerical solution of a system of linear equations. It is particularly attractive because it allows one to take advantage of sparse matrices and produces (in case of infinite…

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