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The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

We present parallel and sequential dense QR factorization algorithms that are both optimal (up to polylogarithmic factors) in the amount of communication they perform, and just as stable as Householder QR. We prove optimality by extending…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-08-21 James Demmel , Laura Grigori , Mark Hoemmen , Julien Langou

We present a new algorithm for solving an eigenvalue problem for a real symmetric matrix which is a rank-one modification of a diagonal matrix. The algorithm computes each eigenvalue and all components of the corresponding eigenvector with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Nevena Jakovcevic Stor , Ivan Slapnicar , Jesse L. Barlow

We implement two novel algorithms for sparse-matrix dense-matrix multiplication (SpMM) on the GPU. Our algorithms expect the sparse input in the popular compressed-sparse-row (CSR) format and thus do not require expensive format conversion.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens

In this work, we design, analyze, and optimize sequential and shared-memory parallel algorithms for partitioned local depths (PaLD). Given a set of data points and pairwise distances, PaLD is a method for identifying strength of pairwise…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Aditya Devarakonda , Grey Ballard

We consider the problem of sampling $n$ numbers from the range $\{1,\ldots,N\}$ without replacement on modern architectures. The main result is a simple divide-and-conquer scheme that makes sequential algorithms more cache efficient and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Peter Sanders , Sebastian Lamm , Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider , Emanuel Schrade , Carsten Dachsbacher

We consider a large-scale parallel-server system, where each server independently adjusts its processing speed in a decentralized manner. The objective is to minimize the overall cost, which comprises the average cost of maintaining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Daan Rutten , Martin Zubeldia , Debankur Mukherjee

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Peter Richtarik , Sebastian U. Stich

We present tensor and sequence parallelism (TSP), a parallel execution strategy that folds tensor parallelism and sequence parallelism onto a single device axis. In conventional multi-dimensional parallelism layouts, tensor parallelism (TP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Vasu Shyam , Anna Golubeva , Quentin Anthony

Nowadays, more and more datasets are stored in a distributed way for the sake of memory storage or data privacy. The generalized eigenvalue problem (GEP) plays a vital role in a large family of high-dimensional statistical models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Kexin Lv , Fan He , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang , Liming Chen

Machine learning potentials have achieved great success in accelerating atomistic simulations. Many of them relying on atom-centered local descriptors are natural for parallelization. More recent message passing neural network (MPNN) models…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Junfan Xia , Bin Jiang

Quantum signal processing (QSP) provides a systematic framework for implementing a polynomial transformation of a linear operator, and unifies nearly all known quantum algorithms. In parallel, recent works have developed randomized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 John M. Martyn , Patrick Rall

The increasing importance of multicore processors calls for a reevaluation of established numerical algorithms in view of their ability to profit from this new hardware concept. In order to optimize the existent algorithms, a detailed…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Gerald Schubert , Georg Hager , Holger Fehske

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is the standard numerical method used to solve the core optimization problem for the vast majority of machine learning (ML) algorithms. In the context of large scale learning, as utilized by many Big Data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Janis Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt

Numerical solution of partial differential equations on parallel computers using domain decomposition usually requires synchronization and communication among the processors. These operations often have a significant overhead in terms of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Soumyadip Ghosh , Jiacai Lu , Vijay Gupta , Gretar Tryggvason

An extremely common bottleneck encountered in statistical learning algorithms is inversion of huge covariance matrices, examples being in evaluating Gaussian likelihoods for a large number of data points. We propose general parallel…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-09 Anjishnu Banerjee , Joshua Vogelstein , David Dunson

The binary-forking model is a parallel computation model, formally defined by Blelloch et al. very recently, in which a thread can fork a concurrent child thread, recursively and asynchronously. The model incurs a cost of $\Theta(\log n)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zafar Ahmad , Rezaul Chowdhury , Rathish Das , Pramod Ganapathi , Aaron Gregory , Mohammad Mahdi Javanmard

Existing semantic communication schemes primarily focus on single-hop scenarios, overlooking the challenges of multi-hop wireless image transmission. As semantic communication is inherently lossy, distortion accumulates over multiple hops,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bingyan Xie , Jihong Park , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang , Tony Quek

We explore an approach due to Nievergelt of decomposing a time-evolution equation along the time dimension and solving it in parallel with as little communication as possible between the processors. This method computes a map from initial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Andrew T. Barker

Previous parallel sorting algorithms do not scale to the largest available machines, since they either have prohibitive communication volume or prohibitive critical path length. We describe algorithms that are a viable compromise and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Michael Axtmann , Timo Bingmann , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz