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This paper presents a fast iterative solver for Lippmann-Schwinger equation for high-frequency waves scattered by a smooth medium with a compactly supported inhomogeneity. The solver is based on the sparsifying preconditioner and a domain…

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In this chapter we will give an insight into modern sparse elimination methods. These are driven by a preprocessing phase based on combinatorial algorithms which improve diagonal dominance, reduce fill-in, and improve concurrency to allow…

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Solving large, sparse linear systems is a fundamental workload in scientific computing and engineering simulations, often dominating runtime and energy consumption in high-performance computing (HPC) applications. In this work, we explore…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Dan Gluck , Yotam Mimran , Andrey Karenskih , Talya Vaknin , Omri Wolf , Ruti Ben-Shlomi , Johannes Gebert

Preconditioning is a technique from numerical linear algebra that can accelerate algorithms to solve systems of equations. In this paper, we demonstrate how preconditioning can circumvent a stringent assumption for sign consistency in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-29 Jinzhu Jia , Karl Rohe

In optimization routines used for on-line Model Predictive Control (MPC), linear systems of equations are usually solved in each iteration. This is true both for Active Set (AS) methods as well as for Interior Point (IP) methods, and for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-08 Daniel Axehill

Circulant preconditioners are commonly used to accelerate the rate of convergence of iterative methods when solving linear systems of equations with a Toeplitz matrix. Block extensions that can be applied when the system has a block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 L. Dykes , S. Noschese , L. Reichel

This paper provides the first provable $\mathcal{O}(N \log N)$ algorithms for the linear system arising from the direct finite element discretization of the fourth-order equation with different boundary conditions on unstructured grids of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Shuo Zhang , Jinchao Xu

We propose a rescaled LASSO, by premultipying the LASSO with a matrix term, namely linear unified LASSO (LLASSO) for multicollinear situations. Our numerical study has shown that the LLASSO is comparable with other sparse modeling…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-16 M. Arashi , Y. Asar , B. Yuzbasi

A hierarchical solver is proposed for solving sparse ill-conditioned linear systems in parallel. The solver is based on a modification of the LoRaSp method, but employs a deferred-compression technique, which provably reduces the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Chao Chen , Leopold Cambier , Erik G. Boman , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Raymond S. Tuminaro , Eric Darve

We consider the problem of efficiently solving large-scale linear least squares problems that have one or more linear constraints that must be satisfied exactly. Whilst some classical approaches are theoretically well founded, they can face…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tuma

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

With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, numerical algorithms are moving towards more approximate approaches. For methods such as PCA or diffusion maps, it is necessary to compute eigenvalues of a large matrix, which may also be dense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Keerthi Gaddameedi , Severin Reiz , Tobias Neckel , Hans-Joachim Bungartz

Recent advances in the field of machine learning open a new era in high performance computing. Applications of machine learning algorithms for the development of accurate and cost-efficient surrogates of complex problems have already…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Stefanos Nikolopoulos , Ioannis Kalogeris , Vissarion Papadopoulos , George Stavroulakis

An algorithm for the direct inversion of the linear systems arising from Nystrom discretization of integral equations on one-dimensional domains is described. The method typically has O(N) complexity when applied to boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-27 Adrianna Gillman , Patrick Young , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We introduce and compare new compression approaches to obtain regularized solutions of large linear systems which are commonly encountered in large scale inverse problems. We first describe how to approximate matrix vector operations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Sergey Voronin , Dylan Mikesell , Guust Nolet

Bayesian statistical inverse problems are often solved with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-type schemes. When the problems are governed by large-scale discrete nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), they are computationally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Howard C. Elman , Akwum Onwunta

We present a two-level preconditioner for solving linear systems arising from the discretization of the elliptic, linear-elastic deformation equation, in displacement unknowns, over domains that have arbitrary geometric and topological…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Sabit Mahmood Khan , Yashar Mehmani

We present an algorithm to parallelize the inverse fast multipole method (IFMM), which is an approximate direct solver for dense linear systems. The parallel scheme is based on a greedy coloring algorithm, where two nodes in the hierarchy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Toru Takahashi , Chao Chen , Eric Darve

We present a randomized algorithm that, on input a symmetric, weakly diagonally dominant n-by-n matrix A with m nonzero entries and an n-vector b, produces a y such that $\norm{y - \pinv{A} b}_{A} \leq \epsilon \norm{\pinv{A} b}_{A}$ in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

We introduce a universal sparse preconditioner that accelerates geometry optimisation and saddle point search tasks that are common in the atomic scale simulation of materials. Our preconditioner is based on the neighbourhood structure and…