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This paper presents a GPU-accelerated framework for solving block tridiagonal linear systems that arise naturally in numerous real-time applications across engineering and scientific computing. Through a multi-stage permutation strategy…

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The parallel linear equations solver capable of effectively using 1000+ processors becomes the bottleneck of large-scale implicit engineering simulations. In this paper, we present a new hierarchical parallel master-slave-structural…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ran Xu , Bin Liu , Yuan Dong

In recent years, randomized algorithms have established themselves as fundamental tools in computational linear algebra, with applications in scientific computing, machine learning, and quantum information science. Many randomized matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Ethan N. Epperly

Unstructured meshes are characterized by data points irregularly distributed in the Euclidian space. Due to the irregular nature of these data, computing connectivity information between the mesh elements requires much more time and memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Guoxi Liu , Federico Iuricich

We introduce a new algorithm and software for solving linear equations in symmetric diagonally dominant matrices with non-positive off-diagonal entries (SDDM matrices), including Laplacian matrices. We use pre-conditioned conjugate gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yuan Gao , Rasmus Kyng , Daniel A. Spielman

Matrix-matrix multiplication is a basic operation in linear algebra and an essential building block for a wide range of algorithms in various scientific fields. Theory and implementation for the dense, square matrix case are well-developed.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Alfio Lazzaro , Joost VandeVondele , Juerg Hutter , Ole Schuett

We present a method for parallel block-sparse matrix-matrix multiplication on distributed memory clusters. By using a quadtree matrix representation, data locality is exploited without prior information about the matrix sparsity pattern. A…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Emanuel H. Rubensson , Elias Rudberg

The computational cost of many signal processing and machine learning techniques is often dominated by the cost of applying certain linear operators to high-dimensional vectors. This paper introduces an algorithm aimed at reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Luc Le Magoarou , Rémi Gribonval

Data and pipeline parallelism are key strategies for scaling neural network training across distributed devices, but their high communication cost necessitates co-located computing clusters with fast interconnects, limiting their…

We consider the least-squares approximation of a matrix C in the set of doubly stochastic matrices with the same sparsity pattern as C. Our approach is based on applying the well-known Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Nikitas Rontsis , Paul J. Goulart

In this work, we study a variant of nonnegative matrix factorization where we wish to find a symmetric factorization of a given input matrix into a sparse, Boolean matrix. Formally speaking, given $\mathbf{M}\in\mathbb{Z}^{m\times m}$, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Sitan Chen , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Ruizhe Zhang

Scalable sparse LU factorization is critical for efficient numerical simulation of circuits and electrical power grids. In this work, we present a new scalable sparse direct solver called Basker. Basker introduces a new algorithm to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Joshua Dennis Booth , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Heidi K. Thornquist

We consider the problem of low-rank approximation of massive dense non-negative tensor data, for example to discover latent patterns in video and imaging applications. As the size of data sets grows, single workstations are hitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Srinivas Eswar , Koby Hayashi , Grey Ballard , Ramakrishnan Kannan , Michael A. Matheson , Haesun Park

With increased reliance on cyber infrastructure, large scale power networks face new challenges owing to computational scalability. In this paper we focus on developing an asynchronous decentralized solution framework for the Unit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Paritosh Ramanan , Murat Yildirim , Edmond Chow , Nagi Gebraeel

Solving sparse linear systems from discretized PDEs is challenging. Direct solvers have in many cases quadratic complexity (depending on geometry), while iterative solvers require problem dependent preconditioners to be robust and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Kai Yang , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

Large language models have high compute, latency, and memory requirements. While specialized accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs typically run these workloads, CPUs are more widely available and consume less energy. Accelerating LLMs with…

Current high-performance computer systems used for scientific computing typically combine shared memory computational nodes in a distributed memory environment. Extracting high performance from these complex systems requires tailored…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-14 Afshin Zafari , Elisabeth Larsson , Martin Tillenius

We develop and implement in this paper a fast sparse assembly algorithm, the fundamental operation which creates a compressed matrix from raw index data. Since it is often a quite demanding and sometimes critical operation, it is of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Stefan Engblom , Dimitar Lukarski

To preserve data privacy, multi-party computation (MPC) enables executing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms on private data. However, MPC frameworks do not include optimized operations on sparse data. This absence makes them unsuitable for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter , Jan Ramon

TMAC is a toolbox written in C++11 that implements algorithms based on a set of modern methods for large-scale optimization. It covers a variety of optimization problems, which can be both smooth and nonsmooth, convex and nonconvex, as well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Brent Edmunds , Zhimin Peng , Wotao Yin