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We consider linear parameter-dependent systems $A(\mu) x(\mu) = b$ for many different $\mu$, where $A$ is large and sparse, and depends nonlinearly on $\mu$. Solving such systems individually for each $\mu$ would require great computational…
We consider the covariance steering problem for nonlinear control-affine systems. Our objective is to find an optimal control strategy to steer the state of a system from an initial distribution to a target one whose mean and covariance are…
The use of Model Predictive Control in industry is steadily increasing as more complicated problems can be addressed. Due to that online optimization is usually performed, the main bottleneck with Model Predictive Control is the relatively…
We study how the Newton-GMRES iteration can enable dynamic simulators (time-steppers) to perform fixed-point and path-following computations.For a class of dissipative problems, whose dynamics are characterized by a slow manifold, the…
We propose a nonparametric procedure to achieve fast inference in generative graphical models when the number of latent states is very large. The approach is based on iterative latent variable preselection, where we alternate between…
The purpose of the current work is to find numerical solutions of the steady state inhomogeneous Vlasov equation. This problem has a wide range of applications in the kinetic simulation of non-thermal plasmas. However, the direct…
We introduce the Neural Preconditioning Operator (NPO), a novel approach designed to accelerate Krylov solvers in solving large, sparse linear systems derived from partial differential equations (PDEs). Unlike classical preconditioners that…
In this paper we present an efficient active-set method for the solution of convex quadratic programming problems with general piecewise-linear terms in the objective, with applications to sparse approximations and risk-minimization. The…
This work proposes a new class of preconditioners for the low rank Generalized Minimal Residual Method (GMRES) for multiterm matrix equations arising from implicit timestepping of linear matrix differential equations. We are interested in…
An all-at-once linear system arising from the nonlinear tempered fractional diffusion equation with variable coefficients is studied. Firstly, the nonlinear and linearized implicit schemes are proposed to approximate such the nonlinear…
In this paper, we revisit the large-scale constrained linear regression problem and propose faster methods based on some recent developments in sketching and optimization. Our algorithms combine (accelerated) mini-batch SGD with a new…
The computation of stationary distributions of Markov chains is an important task in the simulation of stochastic models. The linear systems arising in such applications involve non-symmetric M-matrices, making algebraic multigrid methods a…
This paper presents the open-source stochastic model predictive control framework GRAMPC-S for nonlinear uncertain systems with chance constraints. It provides several uncertainty propagation methods to predict stochastic moments of the…
A Crank-Nicolson finite volume approximation for three-dimensional conservative space-fractional diffusion equation results in large and dense three-level Toeplitz discrete linear systems. Preconditioned Krylov subspace methods with sine…
With the commercial availability of mixed precision hardware, mixed precision GMRES-based iterative refinement schemes have emerged as popular approaches for solving sparse linear systems. Existing analyses of these approaches, however, are…
We propose a novel neural preconditioned Newton (NP-Newton) method for solving parametric nonlinear systems of equations. To overcome the stagnation or instability of Newton iterations caused by unbalanced nonlinearities, we introduce a…
Recently, a novel linear model predictive control algorithm based on a physics-informed Gaussian Process has been introduced, whose realizations strictly follow a system of underlying linear ordinary differential equations with constant…
We consider the task of designing sparse control laws for large-scale systems by directly minimizing an infinite horizon quadratic cost with an $\ell_1$ penalty on the feedback controller gains. Our focus is on an improved algorithm that…
This paper proposes a new sampling-based nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) algorithm, with a bound on complexity quadratic in the prediction horizon N and linear in the number of samples. The idea of the proposed algorithm is to use…
Efficient and fast predictor-corrector methods are proposed to deal with nonlinear Caputo-Fabrizio fractional differential equations, where Caputo-Fabrizio operator is a new proposed fractional derivative with a smooth kernel. The proposed…