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Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable performance on challenging questions, such as math and coding. However, to obtain a high quality solution, one may need to sample more than once. In principal, there are two sampling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xiangming Gu , Soham De , Larisa Markeeva , Petar Veličković , Razvan Pascanu

There are billions of lines of sequential code inside nowadays' software which do not benefit from the parallelism available in modern multicore architectures. Automatically parallelizing sequential code, to promote an efficient use of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Alcides Fonseca , Bruno Cabral , João Rafael , Ivo Correia

We study ordinal makespan scheduling on small numbers of identical machines, with respect to two parallel solutions. In ordinal scheduling, it is known that jobs are sorted by non-increasing sizes, but the specific sizes are not known in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Leah Epstein

Many modern applications require real-time processing of large volumes of high-speed data. Such data processing needs can be modeled as a streaming computation. A streaming computation is specified as a dataflow graph that exposes multiple…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Guna Prasaad , G. Ramalingam , Kaushik Rajan

In this work we show that randomized (block) coordinate descent methods can be accelerated by parallelization when applied to the problem of minimizing the sum of a partially separable smooth convex function and a simple separable convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

Parallel batched data structures are designed to process synchronized batches of operations in a parallel computing model. In this paper, we propose parallel combining, a technique that implements a concurrent data structure from a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Vitaly Aksenov , Petr Kuznetsov , Anatoly Shalyto

In this paper, we consider an approach to the parallelizing of the algorithms realizing the modified probability changigng method with adaptation and partial rollback procedure for constrained pseudo-Boolean optimization problems. Existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Lev Kazakovtsev

The past few years have witnessed growth in the computational requirements for training deep convolutional neural networks. Current approaches parallelize training onto multiple devices by applying a single parallelization strategy (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Zhihao Jia , Sina Lin , Charles R. Qi , Alex Aiken

Motivated by large-scale optimization problems arising in the context of machine learning, there have been several advances in the study of asynchronous parallel and distributed optimization methods during the past decade. Asynchronous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Mahmoud Assran , Arda Aytekin , Hamid Feyzmahdavian , Mikael Johansson , Michael Rabbat

With the growing complexity and capability of contemporary robotic systems, the necessity of sophisticated computing solutions to efficiently handle tasks such as real-time processing, sensor integration, decision-making, and control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Md Rafid Islam

Two emerging hardware trends will dominate the database system technology in the near future: increasing main memory capacities of several TB per server and massively parallel multi-core processing. Many algorithmic and control techniques…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Martina-Cezara Albutiu , Alfons Kemper , Thomas Neumann

As quantum computers continue to improve and support larger, more complex computations, smart control hardware and compilers are needed to efficiently leverage the capabilities of these systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Folkert de Ronde , Alexander Knapen , Stephan Wong , Sebastian Feld

The goal of ranking and selection (R&S) procedures is to identify the best stochastic system from among a finite set of competing alternatives. Such procedures require constructing estimates of each system's performance, which can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Eric C. Ni , Dragos F. Ciocan , Shane G. Henderson , Susan R. Hunter

Modern concurrent programming benefits from a large variety of synchronization techniques. These include conventional pessimistic locking, as well as optimistic techniques based on conditional synchronization primitives or transactional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Vincent Gramoli , Petr Kuznetsov , Srivatsan Ravi

We describe an asynchronous parallel stochastic coordinate descent algorithm for minimizing smooth unconstrained or separably constrained functions. The method achieves a linear convergence rate on functions that satisfy an essential strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-12 Ji Liu , Stephen J. Wright , Christopher Ré , Victor Bittorf , Srikrishna Sridhar

We study preconditioned gradient-based optimization methods where the preconditioning matrix has block-diagonal form. Such a structural constraint comes with the advantage that the update computation is block-separable and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Celestine Mendler-Dünner , Aurelien Lucchi

We consider learning problems over training sets in which both, the number of training examples and the dimension of the feature vectors, are large. To solve these problems we propose the random parallel stochastic algorithm (RAPSA). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Aryan Mokhtari , Alec Koppel , Alejandro Ribeiro

Sorting is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Playing a role in many processes, it has a lower complexity bound imposed by $\mathcal{O}(n\log{n})$ when executing on a sequential machine. This limit can be brought down to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Daniel Bascones , Borja Morcillo

We describe an asynchronous parallel stochastic proximal coordinate descent algorithm for minimizing a composite objective function, which consists of a smooth convex function plus a separable convex function. In contrast to previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Ji Liu , Stephen J. Wright

In this paper, we present several improvements in the parallelization of the in-place merge algorithm, which merges two contiguous sorted arrays into one with an O(T) space complexity (where T is the number of threads). The approach divides…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Berenger Bramas , Quentin Bramas