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Kernel matrix-vector product is ubiquitous in many science and engineering applications. However, a naive method requires $O(N^2)$ operations, which becomes prohibitive for large-scale problems. We introduce a parallel method that provably…

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The discretization of velocity space plays a crucial role in the accuracy and efficiency of multiscale Boltzmann solvers. Conventional velocity space discretization methods suffer from uneven node distribution and mismatch issues, limiting…

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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Seyeon Lee , Junseo Lee , Hyunju Kim , Bongsoo Jang

We investigate approaches to reduce the computational complexity of Volterra nonlinear equalizers (VNLEs) for short-reach optical transmission systems using intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD). In this contribution we focus on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Tom Wettlin , Talha Rahman , Jinlong Wei , Stefano Calabrò , Nebojsa Stojanovic , Stephan Pachnicke

Several different approaches are proposed for solving fully implicit discretizations of a simplified Boltzmann-Poisson system with a linear relaxation-type collision kernel. This system models the evolution of free electrons in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. Paul Laiu , Zheng Chen , Cory D. Hauck

We propose a novel numerical method for solving multi-dimensional, special relativistic Boltzmann equations for neutrinos coupled to hydrodynamics equations. It is meant to be applied to simulations of core-collapse supernovae. We handle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada

The linearized collision operator of the Boltzmann equation can in a natural way be written as a sum of a positive multiplication operator, the collision frequency, and an integral operator. Compactness of the integral operator for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Niclas Bernhoff

A binary-pairing Monte Carlo collision method is presented here for screened Coulomb collisions in plasmas that is valid in the weakly and moderately coupled regimes. The method models the Fokker-Planck collision operator with first order…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Justin Ray Angus , Johannes Johgan van de Wetering

An infinitely wide model is a weighted integration $\int \varphi(x,v) d \mu(v)$ of feature maps. This model excels at handling an infinite number of features, and thus it has been adopted to the theoretical study of deep learning. Kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-08 Sho Sonoda

In this article, we present an $O(N \log N)$ rapidly convergent algorithm for the numerical approximation of the convolution integral with radially symmetric weakly singular kernels and compactly supported densities. To achieve the reduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Awanish Kumar Tiwari , Ambuj Pandey , Jagabandhu Paul , Akash Anand

Kernel methods are a popular class of nonlinear predictive models in machine learning. Scalable algorithms for learning kernel models need to be iterative in nature, but convergence can be slow due to poor conditioning. Spectral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-26 Amirhesam Abedsoltan , Parthe Pandit , Luis Rademacher , Mikhail Belkin

In this paper, we first extend the micro-macro decomposition method for multiscale kinetic equations from the BGK model to general collisional kinetic equations, including the Boltzmann and the Fokker-Planck Landau equations. The main idea…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Irene M. Gamba , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

We present a fast direct solver for structured linear systems based on multilevel matrix compression. Using the recently developed interpolative decomposition of a low-rank matrix in a recursive manner, we embed an approximation of the…

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We present a sparse spectral method for nonlinear integro-differential Volterra equations based on the Volterra operator's banded sparsity structure when acting on specific Jacobi polynomial bases. The method is not restricted to…

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We propose a kernel compression method for solving Distributed-Order (DO) Fractional Partial Differential Equations (DOFPDEs) at the cost of solving corresponding local-in-time PDEs. The key concepts are (1) discretization of the integral…

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For different models of the electron-phonon interaction, the asymptotic behaviour of the moments of the stationary homogeneous solution of the linear Boltzmann equation is determined in the limit of a high external field. For…

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In recent years, kernel density estimation has been exploited by computer scientists to model machine learning problems. The kernel density estimation based approaches are of interest due to the low time complexity of either O(n) or…

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Spectral methods have greatly advanced the estimation of latent variable models, generating a sequence of novel and efficient algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees. However, current spectral algorithms are largely restricted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Le Song , Animashree Anandkumar , Bo Dai , Bo Xie

Kernel methods are powerful tools in statistical learning, but their cubic complexity in the sample size n limits their use on large-scale datasets. In this work, we introduce a scalable framework for kernel regression with O(n log n)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-04 Nathan Doumèche , Francis Bach , Gérard Biau , Claire Boyer

Training and inference in Gaussian processes (GPs) require solving linear systems with $n\times n$ kernel matrices. To address the prohibitive $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ time complexity, recent work has employed fast iterative methods, like…

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