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Classical kernel machines have historically faced significant challenges in scaling to large datasets and model sizes--a key ingredient that has driven the success of neural networks. In this paper, we present a new methodology for building…

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The observed and expected continued growth in the number of nodes in large-scale parallel computers gives rise to two major challenges: global communication operations are becoming major bottlenecks due to their limited scalability, and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Markus Levonyak , Christina Pacher , Wilfried N. Gansterer

In spatial statistics and machine learning, the kernel matrix plays a pivotal role in prediction, classification, and maximum likelihood estimation. A thorough examination reveals that for large sample sizes, the kernel matrix becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-07 Hao Zhang

A fundamental task in numerical computation is the solution of large linear systems. The conjugate gradient method is an iterative method which offers rapid convergence to the solution, particularly when an effective preconditioner is…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-18 Jon Cockayne , Chris Oates , Ilse Ipsen , Mark Girolami

Quantum optimal control problems are typically solved by gradient-based algorithms such as GRAPE, which suffer from exponential growth in storage with increasing number of qubits and linear growth in memory requirements with increasing…

We revisit the problem of large-scale bundle adjustment and propose a technique called Multidirectional Conjugate Gradients that accelerates the solution of the normal equation by up to 61%. The key idea is that we enlarge the search space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Simon Weber , Nikolaus Demmel , Daniel Cremers

A wide range of optimization problems arising in machine learning can be solved by gradient descent algorithms, and a central question in this area is how to efficiently compress a large-scale dataset so as to reduce the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jiawei Huang , Ruomin Huang , Wenjie Liu , Nikolaos M. Freris , Hu Ding

Conjugate gradient is an efficient algorithm for solving large sparse linear systems. It has been utilized to accelerate the computation in Bayesian analysis for many large-scale problems. This article discusses the applications of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-30 Lu Zhang

The sparsity constrained rank-one matrix approximation problem is a difficult mathematical optimization problem which arises in a wide array of useful applications in engineering, machine learning and statistics, and the design of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-27 Ronny Luss , Marc Teboulle

Clustering under pairwise constraints is an important knowledge discovery tool that enables the learning of appropriate kernels or distance metrics to improve clustering performance. These pairwise constraints, which come in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Benedikt Boecking , Vincent Jeanselme , Artur Dubrawski

A well-recognized limitation of kernel learning is the requirement to handle a kernel matrix, whose size is quadratic in the number of training examples. Many methods have been proposed to reduce this computational cost, mostly by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Yishay Mansour , Ohad Shamir

Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) is a simple yet powerful technique for non-parametric regression whose computation amounts to solving a linear system. This system is usually dense and highly ill-conditioned. In addition, the dimensions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Haim Avron , Kenneth L. Clarkson , David P. Woodruff

The conjugate gradient method is a widely used algorithm for the numerical solution of a system of linear equations. It is particularly attractive because it allows one to take advantage of sparse matrices and produces (in case of infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Sergey Voronin , Christophe Zaroli , Naresh P. Cuntoor

Large linear systems are ubiquitous in modern computational science and engineering. The main recipe for solving them is the use of Krylov subspace iterative methods with well-designed preconditioners. Recently, GNNs have been shown to be a…

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Off-lattice agent-based models (or cell-based models) of multicellular systems are increasingly used to create in-silico models of in-vitro and in-vivo experimental setups of cells and tissues, such as cancer spheroids, neural crest cell…

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We propose a simple yet effective multiple kernel clustering algorithm, termed simple multiple kernel k-means (SimpleMKKM). It extends the widely used supervised kernel alignment criterion to multi-kernel clustering. Our criterion is given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Jiyuan Liu , Timothy Hospedales , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

This Paper conducts a thorough simulation study to assess the effectiveness of various acceleration techniques designed to enhance the conjugate gradient algorithm, which is used for solving large linear systems to accelerate Bayesian…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-06 Zhihao Zhou

We revisit gradient-based optimization for infinite projected entangled pair states (iPEPS), a tensor network ansatz for simulating many-body quantum systems. This approach is hindered by two major challenges: the high computational cost of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-09 Xing-Yu Zhang , Qi Yang , Philippe Corboz , Jutho Haegeman , Wei Tang

A structured preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) solver is developed for the Newton steps in second-order methods for a class of constrained network optimal control problems. Of specific interest are problems with discrete-time dynamics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Armaghan Zafar , Michael Cantoni , Farhad Farokhi

The conjugate gradient method (CG) is typically used with a preconditioner which improves efficiency and robustness of the method. Many preconditioners include parameters and a proper choice of a preconditioner and its parameters is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Alexandr Katrutsa , Mike Botchev , George Ovchinnikov , Ivan Oseledets