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Approximate Bayesian inference methods that scale to very large datasets are crucial in leveraging probabilistic models for real-world time series. Sparse Markovian Gaussian processes combine the use of inducing variables with efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 William J. Wilkinson , Arno Solin , Vincent Adam

In this work, we study the problem of finding approximate, with minimum support set, solutions to matrix max-plus equations, which we call sparse approximate solutions. We show how one can obtain such solutions efficiently and in polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Nikos Tsilivis , Anastasios Tsiamis , Petros Maragos

In this paper, we propose a novel method to approximate the mean field stochastic differential equation by means of approximating the density function via Fokker-Planck equation. We construct a well-posed truncated Fokker-Planck equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Jinhui Zhou , Yongkui Zou , Shimin Chai , Boyu Wang , Ziyi Tan

Instance sparsification is well-known in the world of exact computation since it is very closely linked to the Exponential Time Hypothesis. In this paper, we extend the concept of sparsification in order to capture subexponential time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Edouard Bonnet , Vangelis Th. Paschos

A method for numerical approximation of a new class of fractional parabolic stochastic evolution equations is introduced and analysed. This class of equations has recently been proposed as a space-time extension of the SPDE-method in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 S. Knutsen Furset

We describe two algorithms for computing a sparse solution to a least-squares problem where the coefficient matrix can have arbitrary dimensions. We show that the solution vector obtained by our algorithms is close to the solution vector…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Christos Boutsidis

A new approximation format for solutions of partial differential equations depending on infinitely many parameters is introduced. By combining low-rank tensor approximation in a selected subset of variables with a sparse polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Markus Bachmayr , Huqing Yang

This paper introduces the localized sparsifying preconditioner for the pseudospectral approximations of indefinite systems on periodic structures. The work is built on top of the recently proposed sparsifying preconditioner with two major…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Fei Liu , Lexing Ying

Many applications of Gaussian random fields and Gaussian random processes are limited by the computational complexity of evaluating the probability density function, which involves inverting the relevant covariance matrix. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Theodor Bjorkmo , M. C. David Marsh

We introduce a nonparametric approach for estimating drift and diffusion functions in systems of stochastic differential equations from observations of the state vector. Gaussian processes are used as flexible models for these functions and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-08-15 Philipp Batz , Andreas Ruttor , Manfred Opper

In this work we study convergence properties of sparse polynomial approximations for a class of affine parametric saddle point problems. Such problems can be found in many computational science and engineering fields, including the Stokes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas

Centered Gaussian random fields (GRFs) indexed by compacta such as smooth, bounded Euclidean domains or smooth, compact and orientable manifolds are determined by their covariance operators. We consider centered GRFs given as variational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Helmut Harbrecht , Lukas Herrmann , Kristin Kirchner , Christoph Schwab

We consider linear dynamical systems of ordinary differential equations or differential algebraic equations. Physical parameters are substituted by random variables for an uncertainty quantification. We expand the state variables as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Roland Pulch

We investigate the solution of low-rank matrix approximation problems using the truncated SVD. For this purpose, we develop and optimize GPU implementations for the randomized SVD and a blocked variant of the Lanczos approach. Our work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Andres E. Tomas , Enrique S. Quintana-Orti , Hartwig Anzt

We consider the task of approximating a matrix function $f(A)$, where $A$ is a matrix in which only a relatively small number of (not necessarily consecutive) sub- and superdiagonals contain nonzero entries. Approximating $f$ by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Majed Hamadi , Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri , Marcel Schweitzer

We propose a fast and scalable optimization method to solve chance or probabilistic constrained optimization problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) with high-dimensional random parameters. To address the critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas

We introduce a new scalable approximation for Gaussian processes with provable guarantees which hold simultaneously over its entire parameter space. Our approximation is obtained from an improved sample complexity analysis for sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Quang Minh Hoang , Trong Nghia Hoang , Hai Pham , David P. Woodruff

In this paper, a novel method to adaptively approximate the solution to stochastic differential equations, which is based on compressive sampling and sparse recovery, is introduced. The proposed method consider the problem of sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Behrooz Azarkhalili

Recently, a class of algorithms combining classical fixed point iterations with repeated random sparsification of approximate solution vectors has been successfully applied to eigenproblems with matrices as large as $10^{108} \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonathan Weare , Robert J. Webber

The L1-regularized Gaussian maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) has been shown to have strong statistical guarantees in recovering a sparse inverse covariance matrix, or alternatively the underlying graph structure of a Gaussian Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Cho-Jui Hsieh , Matyas A. Sustik , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Pradeep Ravikumar