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Bayesian inverse problems often involve sampling posterior distributions on infinite-dimensional function spaces. Traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are characterized by deteriorating mixing times upon mesh-refinement,…

Computation · Statistics 2017-03-08 Alexandros Beskos , Mark Girolami , Shiwei Lan , Patrick E. Farrell , Andrew M. Stuart

In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to the regularization models due to the presence of high-dimensional data in scientific research. Sparse support vector machine (SVM) are useful tools in high-dimensional data…

Computation · Statistics 2023-12-27 Jiawei Wen

We consider fast kernel summations in high dimensions: given a large set of points in $d$ dimensions (with $d \gg 3$) and a pair-potential function (the {\em kernel} function), we compute a weighted sum of all pairwise kernel interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-16 William B. March , George Biros

Gaussian processes (GPs) can provide a principled approach to uncertainty quantification with easy-to-interpret kernel hyperparameters, such as the lengthscale, which controls the correlation distance of function values. However, selecting…

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and it requires high-resolution feature maps for dense prediction. Current coordinate-guided low-resolution feature interpolation methods, e.g., bilinear interpolation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tianheng Cheng , Xinggang Wang , Junchao Liao , Wenyu Liu

A fast multipole method (FMM) for asymptotically smooth kernel functions (1/r, 1/r^4, Gauss and Stokes kernels, radial basis functions, etc.) based on a Chebyshev interpolation scheme has been introduced in [Fong et al., 2009]. The method…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Matthias Messner , Bérenger Bramas , Olivier Coulaud , Eric Darve

Kernel methods are fundamental tools in machine learning that allow detection of non-linear dependencies between data without explicitly constructing feature vectors in high dimensional spaces. A major disadvantage of kernel methods is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Thomas D. Ahle , Michael Kapralov , Jakob B. T. Knudsen , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker , David Woodruff , Amir Zandieh

This paper presents a new algorithmic framework for computing sparse solutions to large-scale linear discrete ill-posed problems. The approach is motivated by recent perspectives on iteratively reweighted norm schemes, viewed through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Lucas Onisk , Malena Sabaté Landman

Basing on invariant properties of universal multifractals we propose a simple algorithm for interpolation of multifractal densities. The algorithm admits generalization to a multidimensional case. Analitically obtained are multifractal…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Bar'yahtar , V. Yu. Gonchar , D. Schertzer , V. V. Yanovsky

We present a fast direct solver for structured linear systems based on multilevel matrix compression. Using the recently developed interpolative decomposition of a low-rank matrix in a recursive manner, we embed an approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Kenneth L. Ho , Leslie Greengard

Image convolution with complex kernels is a fundamental operation in photography, scientific imaging, and animation effects, yet direct dense convolution is computationally prohibitive on resource-limited devices. Existing approximations,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhizhen Wu , Zhe Cao , Yuchi Huo

Gaussian process (GP) regression is a powerful probabilistic modeling technique with built-in uncertainty quantification. When one has access to multiple correlated simulations (tasks), it is common to fit a multitask GP (MTGP) surrogate…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-18 Aleksei G. Sorokin , Pieterjan Robbe , Fred J. Hickernell

Motivated by the problem of fast processing of attention matrices, we study fast algorithms for computing matrix-vector products for asymmetric Gaussian Kernel matrices $K\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$. $K$'s columns are indexed by a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Piotr Indyk , Michael Kapralov , Kshiteej Sheth , Tal Wagner

We develop efficient numerical integration methods for computing an integral whose integrand is a product of a smooth function and the Gaussian function with a small standard deviation. Traditional numerical integration methods applied to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Yunyun Ma , Yuesheng Xu

The problems of computational data processing involving regression, interpolation, reconstruction and imputation for multidimensional big datasets are becoming more important these days, because of the availability of data and their widely…

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Specialized function gradient computing hardware could greatly improve the performance of state-of-the-art optimization algorithms, e.g., based on gradient descent or conjugate gradient methods that are at the core of control, machine…

Robust and scalable function evaluation at any arbitrary point in the finite/spectral element mesh is required for querying the partial differential equation solution at points of interest, comparison of solution between different meshes,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ketan Mittal , Aditya Parik , Som Dutta , Paul Fischer , Tzanio Kolev , James Lottes

In this article we develop a new sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method for multilevel (ML) Monte Carlo estimation. In particular, the method can be used to estimate expectations with respect to a target probability distribution over an…

Computation · Statistics 2017-03-16 Alexandros Beskos , Ajay Jasra , Kody Law , Youssef Marzouk , Yan Zhou

Identifying dynamical system (DS) is a vital task in science and engineering. Traditional methods require numerous calls to the DS solver, rendering likelihood-based or least-squares inference frameworks impractical. For efficient parameter…

Computation · Statistics 2024-09-19 Ying Zhou , Jinglai Li , Xiang Zhou , Hongqiao Wang

We present a fast sparse matrix permutation algorithm tailored to linear systems arising from triangle meshes. Our approach produces nested-dissection-style permutations while significantly reducing permutation runtime overhead. Rather than…