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Graph pattern matching, which aims to discover structural patterns in graphs, is considered one of the most fundamental graph mining problems in many real applications. Despite previous efforts, existing systems face two main challenges.…

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We develop a parallel-in-time multigrid preconditioner for augmented systems. These saddle-point systems are foundational to numerical optimization. Our preconditioner, when paired with a suitable optimization method, accelerates the…

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To identify under what conditions guiding-centre or full-orbit tracing should be used, an estimation of the spatial variation of the magnetic field is proposed, not only taking into account gradient and curvature terms but also parallel…

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Given a multigrid procedure for linear systems with coefficient matrices $A_n$, we discuss the optimality of a related multigrid procedure with the same smoother and the same projector, when applied to properly related algebraic problems…

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The Symmetric Primal-Dual Symplex Pivot Decision Strategy (spdspds) is a novel iterative algorithm to solve linear programming problems. A symplex pivoting operation is simply an exchange between a basic variable and a non-basic variable,…

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The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly governed by data efficiency rather than raw scaling volume. However, existing selection methods often decouple global distribution balancing from local instance selection,…

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We propose a sampling scheme on the sphere and develop a corresponding spherical harmonic transform (SHT) for the accurate reconstruction of the diffusion signal in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). By exploiting the antipodal…

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Integer linear programs (ILPs) are commonly employed to model diverse practical problems such as scheduling and planning. Recently, machine learning techniques have been utilized to solve ILPs. A straightforward idea is to train a model via…

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