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A sparse linear programming (SLP) problem is a linear programming problem equipped with a sparsity (or cardinality) constraint, which is nonconvex and discontinuous theoretically and generally NP-hard computationally due to the…

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A symmetric matrix is called a Laplacian if it has nonpositive off-diagonal entries and zero row sums. Since the seminal work of Spielman and Teng (2004) on solving Laplacian linear systems in nearly linear time, several algorithms have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sushant Sachdeva , Yibin Zhao

Recent years have seen extensive research on directed graph sparsification. In this work, we initiate the study of fast fully dynamic spectral and cut sparsification algorithms for directed graphs. We introduce a new notion of spectral…

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We are interested in solving linear systems arising from three applications: (1) kernel methods in machine learning, (2) discretization of boundary integral equations from mathematical physics, and (3) Schur complements formed in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Chao Chen , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We provide new high-accuracy randomized algorithms for solving linear systems and regression problems that are well-conditioned except for $k$ large singular values. For solving such $d \times d$ positive definite system our algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Michał Dereziński , Aaron Sidford

We revisit the matrix problems sparse null space and matrix sparsification, and show that they are equivalent. We then proceed to seek algorithms for these problems: We prove the hardness of approximation of these problems, and also give a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Tyler Neylon

Correlation matrices are the sub-class of positive definite real matrices with all entries on the diagonal equal to unity. Earlier work has exhibited a parametrisation of the corresponding Cholesky factorisation in terms of partial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-31 P. J. Forrester , Jiyuan Zhang

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…

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When solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using finite difference or finite element methods, efficient solvers are required for handling large sparse linear systems. In this paper, a recursive sparse LU decomposition for matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Zhu Xuanru , Lai Jun

Sparse linear system solvers ($Ax=b$) are critical computational kernels in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), underpinning vital simulations for modern IC and system design. Applications like power integrity verification and…

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This paper introduces a new sweeping preconditioner for the iterative solution of the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation in two and three dimensions. The algorithms follow the general structure of constructing an approximate $LDL^t$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Björn Engquist , Lexing Ying

We develop a quantum algorithm for linear algebraic equations $ A\bb{x} = \bb{b} $ from the perspective of Schr\"odingerization-form problems, which are characterized by a system of linear convection equations in one higher dimension. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yin Yang , Yue Yu , Long Zhang

We show convergence rates for a sparse grid approximation of the distribution of solutions of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. Beyond being a frequently studied equation in engineering and physics, the stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Xin An , Josef Dick , Michael Feischl , Andrea Scaglioni , Thanh Tran

Graphs arising in statistical problems, signal processing, large networks, combinatorial optimization, and data analysis are often dense, which causes both computational and storage bottlenecks. One way of \textit{sparsifying} a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Neophytos Charalambides , Alfred O. Hero

Some important applicative problems require the evaluation of functions $\Psi$ of large and sparse and/or \emph{localized} matrices $A$. Popular and interesting techniques for computing $\Psi(A)$ and $\Psi(A)\mathbf{v}$, where $\mathbf{v}$…

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We consider positive, integral-preserving linear operators acting on $L^1$ space, known as stochastic operators or Markov operators. We show that, on finite-dimensional spaces, any stochastic operator can be approximated by a sequence of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Shirin Moein , Rajesh Pereira , Sarah Plosker

In this paper we consider Sparse Fourier Transform (SFT) algorithms for approximately computing the best $s$-term approximation of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) $\mathbf{\hat{f}} \in \mathbb{C}^N$ of any given input vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Sami Merhi , Ruochuan Zhang , Mark A. Iwen , Andrew Christlieb

This paper introduces a robust preconditioner for general sparse symmetric matrices, that is based on low-rank approximations of the Schur complement in a Domain Decomposition (DD) framework. In this "Schur Low Rank" (SLR) preconditioning…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Ruipeng Li , Yuanzhe Xi , Yousef Saad

The solution of sparse linear systems constitutes the dominant computational bottleneck in interior point methods (IPMs), frequently consuming over 70% of the total solution time. As optimization problems scale to millions of variables,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shaofeng Yang , Yunting Wang , Yingying Cheng , Fan Zhang , Xin He , Guangming Tan

In this paper, we revisit spectral sparsification for sums of arbitrary positive semidefinite (PSD) matrices. Concretely, for any collection of PSD matrices $\mathcal{A} = \{A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_r\} \subset \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$, given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Arpon Basu , Pravesh K. Kothari , Yang P. Liu , Raghu Meka