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In recent years, there has been widespread adoption of machine learning-based approaches to automate the solving of partial differential equations (PDEs). Among these approaches, Gaussian processes (GPs) and kernel methods have garnered…

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We show that Laplacian and symmetric diagonally dominant (SDD) matrices can be well approximated by linear-sized sparse Cholesky factorizations. We show that these matrices have constant-factor approximations of the form $L L^{T}$, where…

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We exploit the truncated singular value decomposition and the recently proposed circulant decomposition for an efficient first-order approximation of the multiplication of large dense matrices. A decomposition of each matrix into a sum of a…

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We present a new method for estimating multivariate, second-order stationary Gaussian Random Field (GRF) models based on the Sparse Precision matrix Selection (SPS) algorithm, proposed by Davanloo et al. (2015) for estimating scalar GRF…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-12 Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Enrique del Castillo

Gaussian Markov random fields are used in a large number of disciplines in machine vision and spatial statistics. The models take advantage of sparsity in matrices introduced through the Markov assumptions, and all operations in inference…

Computation · Statistics 2018-02-08 Andrew Zammit-Mangion , Jonathan Rougier

We develop a sparse spectral method for a class of fractional differential equations, posed on $\mathbb{R}$, in one dimension. These equations can include sqrt-Laplacian, Hilbert, derivative and identity terms. The numerical method utilizes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Sheehan Olver

Since it is difficult to implement implicit schemes on the infinite-dimensional space, we aim to develop the explicit numerical method for approximating super-linear stochastic functional differential equations (SFDEs). Precisely, borrowing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Xiaoyue Li , Xuerong Mao , Guoting Song

This paper gives the exact solution in terms of the Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve expansion to a fractional stochastic partial differential equation on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{2}\subset \mathbb{R}^{3}$ with fractional Brownian motion as driving…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Vo V. Anh , Philip Broadbridge , Andriy Olenko , Yu Guang Wang

A new concept is introduced for the adaptive finite element discretization of partial differential equations that have a sparsely representable solution. Motivated by recent work on compressed sensing, a recursive mesh refinement procedure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Sadegh Jokar , Volker Mehrmann , Marc Pfetsch , Harry Yserentant

The Dirac-{\delta} distribution may be realized through sequences of convlutions, the latter being also regarded as approximation to the identity. The present study proposes the so called pre-orthogonal adaptive Fourier decomposition…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Wei Qu , Tao Qian , Guan-Tie Deng

This paper investigates the errors of the solutions as well as the shadowing property of a class of nonlinear differential equations which possess unique solutions on a certain interval for any admissible initial conditions. The class of…

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Variational approximation methods have proven to be useful for scaling Bayesian computations to large data sets and highly parametrized models. Applying variational methods involves solving an optimization problem, and recent research in…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-01-13 Victor M. -H. Ong , David J. Nott , Michael S. Smith

In this paper, we consider the matrices approximated in H2 format. The direct solution, as well as the preconditioning, of systems with such matrices is a challenging problem. We propose a non-extensive sparse factorization of the H2 matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Daria Sushnikova , Ivan Oseledets

We propose an alternative method to generate samples of a spatially correlated random field with applications to large-scale problems for forward propagation of uncertainty. A classical approach for generating these samples is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Sarah Osborn , Panayot Vassilevski , Umberto Villa

In this paper we approximate high-dimensional functions $f\colon\mathbb T^d\to\mathbb C$ by sparse trigonometric polynomials based on function evaluations. Recently it was shown that a dimension-incremental sparse Fourier transform (SFT)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Felix Bartel , Fabian Taubert

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) is a fundamental technique for dimensionality reduction, and is NP-hard. In this paper, we introduce a randomized approximation algorithm for SPCA, which is based on the basic SDP relaxation. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Alberto Del Pia , Dekun Zhou

We consider Gaussian Random Fields on metric graphs defined implicitly as the stationary solution to a fractional SPDE driven by Gaussian white noise. Sampling from the finite element approximation requires the Cholesky factorization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Mihály Kovács , Gyula Molnár , Máté András Száraz

We apply a method recently introduced to the statistical literature to directly estimate the precision matrix from an ensemble of samples drawn from a corresponding Gaussian distribution. Motivated by the observation that cosmological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin White , Harrison H. Zhou , Ross O'Connell

The probability density function (PDF) of a random variable associated with the solution of a partial differential equation (PDE) with random parameters is approximated using a truncated series expansion. The random PDE is solved using two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Giacomo Capodaglio , Max Gunzburger , Henry P. Wynn

We present a novel statistically-based discretization paradigm and derive a class of maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimators for solving ill-conditioned linear inverse problems. We are guided by the theory of sparse stochastic processes,…

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