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We propose a new random sketching approach for embedding high-dimensional Hilbert-Schmidt operators, using random input-output pairs. Such operator can then be approximated in a low-dimensional subspace of operators by solving a small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Oleg Balabanov , Anthony Nouy , Alexandre Pasco

This paper presents a new stochastic preconditioning approach. For symmetric diagonally-dominant M-matrices, we prove that an incomplete LDL factorization can be obtained from random walks, and used as a preconditioner for an iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Haifeng Qian , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

We present a randomized algorithm that, on input a symmetric, weakly diagonally dominant n-by-n matrix A with m nonzero entries and an n-vector b, produces a y such that $\norm{y - \pinv{A} b}_{A} \leq \epsilon \norm{\pinv{A} b}_{A}$ in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

Recently, Garcke et al.[Garcke, Hinze, Kahle, A stable and linear time discretization for a thermodynamically consistent model for two-phase incompressible flow, Applied Numerical Mathematics 99, pp. 151-171, 2016] developed a consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Jessica Bosch , Christian Kahle , Martin Stoll

We introduce a new approach to spectral sparsification that approximates the quadratic form of the pseudoinverse of a graph Laplacian restricted to a subspace. We show that sparsifiers with a near-linear number of edges in the dimension of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Huan Li , Aaron Schild

There has been a growing interest in parallel strategies for solving trajectory optimization problems. One key step in many algorithmic approaches to trajectory optimization is the solution of moderately-large and sparse linear systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Xueyi Bu , Brian Plancher

Transform-domain least mean squares (LMS) adaptive filters encompass the class of algorithms where the input data are subjected to a data-independent unitary transform followed by a power normalization stage as preprocessing steps. Because…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Tamal Batabyal , Daniel S. Weller , Jaideep Kapur , Scott T. Acton

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

In the present study, the efficiency of preconditioners for solving linear systems associated with the discretized variable-density incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with semiimplicit second-order accuracy in time and spectral accuracy…

It is well known that via the augmented Lagrangian method, one can solve Stokes' system by solving the nearly incompressible linear elasticity equation. In this paper, we show that the converse holds, and approximate the inverse of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 James H Adler , Xiaozhe Hu , Yuwen Li , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

A preconditioning strategy is proposed for the iterative solve of large numbers of linear systems with parameter-dependent matrix and right-hand side which arise during the computation of solution statistics of stochastic elliptic partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Nicolas Venkovic , Paul Mycek , Olivier Le Maître

We consider iterative methods for solving the linearised Navier-Stokes equations arising from two-phase flow problems and the efficient preconditioning of such systems when using mixed finite element methods. Our target application is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Niall Bootland , Alistair Bentley , Christopher Kees , Andrew Wathen

Preconditioning is a technique from numerical linear algebra that can accelerate algorithms to solve systems of equations. In this paper, we demonstrate how preconditioning can circumvent a stringent assumption for sign consistency in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-29 Jinzhu Jia , Karl Rohe

We propose an augmented Lagrangian-based preconditioner to accelerate the convergence of Krylov subspace methods applied to linear systems of equations with a block three-by-three structure such as those arising from mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Fatemeh P. A. Beik , Michele Benzi

A uniform inf-sup condition related to a parameter dependent Stokes problem is established. Such conditions are intimately connected to the construction of uniform preconditioners for the problem, i.e., preconditioners which behave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Kent-Andre Mardal , Joachim Schöberl , Ragnar Winther

A class of preconditioners is introduced to enhance geometry optimisation and transition state search of molecular systems. We start from the Hessian of molecular mechanical terms, decompose it and retain only its positive definite part to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Letif Mones , Gabor Csanyi , Christoph Ortner

We consider the use of multipreconditioning to solve linear systems when more than one preconditioner is available but the optimal choice is not known. In particular, we consider a selective multipreconditioned GMRES algorithm where we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Niall Bootland , Andrew Wathen

Preconditioning of a linear system obtained from spectral discretization of time-dependent PDEs often results in a full matrix which is expensive to compute and store specially when the problem size increases. A matrix-free implementation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-09 A. Ghasemi , L. K. Taylor

We derive novel, fast, and parameter-robust preconditioned iterative methods for steady and time-dependent Navier--Stokes control problems. Our approach may be applied to time-dependent problems which are discretized using backward Euler or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Santolo Leveque , John W. Pearson

Gaussian process hyperparameter optimization requires linear solves with, and log-determinants of, large kernel matrices. Iterative numerical techniques are becoming popular to scale to larger datasets, relying on the conjugate gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jonathan Wenger , Geoff Pleiss , Philipp Hennig , John P. Cunningham , Jacob R. Gardner