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This paper proposes a GPU-accelerated optimization framework for collision avoidance problems where the controlled objects and the obstacles can be modeled as the finite union of convex polyhedra. A novel collision avoidance constraint is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zeming Wu , Zhuping Wang , Hao Zhang

Convex quadratic programming (QP) is an essential class of optimization problems with broad applications across various fields. Traditional QP solvers, typically based on simplex or barrier methods, face significant scalability challenges.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Yicheng Huang , Wanyu Zhang , Hongpei Li , Dongdong Ge , Huikang Liu , Yinyu Ye

The reduction of a banded matrix to bidiagonal form is a critical step in the calculation of Singular Values, a cornerstone of scientific computing and AI. Although inherently parallel, this step has traditionally been considered unsuitable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Evelyne Ringoot , Rabab Alomairy , Alan Edelman

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated implementation of two-dimensional Smart Laplacian smoothing. This implementation is developed under the guideline of our paradigm for accelerating Laplacianbased mesh smoothing [13]. Two types of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Kunyang Zhao , Gang Mei , Nengxiong Xu , Jiayin Zhang

We present a fast general-purpose algorithm for high-throughput clustering of data "with a two dimensional organization". The algorithm is designed to be implemented with FPGAs or custom electronics. The key feature is a processing time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Annovi , M. Beretta

Inspired by the classical fractional cascading technique, we introduce new techniques to speed up the following type of iterated search in 3D: The input is a graph $\mathbf{G}$ with bounded degree together with a set $H_v$ of 3D hyperplanes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Peyman Afshani , Yakov Nekrich , Frank Staals

A novel 2-D method for computing the convex hull of a sufficiently dense set of n integer points is introduced. The approach employs a ranking function that avoids sorting the points directly thus reducing the overall time complexity. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-01-22 G. M. Megson , J. Cadenas

Motivated by the increasing interest in applications of graph geodesic convexity in machine learning and data mining, we present a heuristic for computing the geodesic convex hull of node sets in networks. It generates a set of almost…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Florian Seiffarth , Tamás Horváth , Stefan Wrobel

Given a point set $P$ in the plane, we seek a subset $Q\subseteq P$, whose convex hull gives a smaller and thus simpler representation of the convex hull of $P$. Specifically, let $cost(Q,P)$ denote the Hausdorff distance between the convex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Georgiy Klimenko , Benjamin Raichel

Gaussian processes (GPs) are a widely used regression tool, but the cubic complexity of exact solvers limits their scalability. To address this challenge, we extend the GPRat library by incorporating a fully GPU-resident GP prediction…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Henrik Möllmann , Dirk Pflüger , Alexander Strack

The rapid progress in GPU computing has revolutionized many fields, yet its potential in mathematical programming, such as linear programming (LP), has only recently begun to be realized. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

Branch-and-Bound (B&B) algorithms are time intensive tree-based exploration methods for solving to optimality combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of GPU computing as a major complementary way to speed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Melab Nouredine , Imen Chakroun , Mezmaz Mohand , Daniel Tuyttens

The clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio are concepts often used in network analysis, which creates a need for fast practical algorithms for counting triangles in large graphs. Previous research in this area focused on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Adam Polak

Priority queue, often implemented as a heap, is an abstract data type that has been used in many well-known applications like Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm, Prim's minimum spanning tree, Huffman encoding, and the branch-and-bound…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Yanhao Chen , Fei Hua , Chaozhang Huang , Jeremy Bierema , Chi Zhang , Eddy Z. Zhang

In an ordinary feature selection procedure, a set of important features is obtained by solving an optimization problem such as the Lasso regression problem, and we expect that the obtained features explain the data well. In this study,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-16 Satoshi Hara , Takanori Maehara

Real-time trajectory optimization for nonlinear constrained autonomous systems is critical and typically performed by CPU-based sequential solvers. Specifically, reliance on global sparse linear algebra or the serial nature of dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yilin Zou , Zhong Zhang , Maxime Robic , Fanghua Jiang

Sorting is at the core of many database operations, such as index creation, sort-merge joins, and user-requested output sorting. As GPUs are emerging as a promising platform to accelerate various operations, sorting on GPUs becomes a viable…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Elias Stehle , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Convex hulls are useful as tight bounding proxies for a variety of tasks including collision detection, ray intersection, and distance computation. Unfortunately, the complexity of polyhedral convex hulls grows linearly with their input. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Alec Jacobson

Large scale-free graphs are famously difficult to process efficiently: the skewed vertex degree distribution makes it difficult to obtain balanced partitioning. Our research instead aims to turn this into an advantage by partitioning the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Scott Sallinen , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu

The main goal in many fields in the empirical sciences is to discover causal relationships among a set of variables from observational data. PC algorithm is one of the promising solutions to learn underlying causal structure by performing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Behrooz Zarebavani , Foad Jafarinejad , Matin Hashemi , Saber Salehkaleybar