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We present a new parallel algorithm for probabilistic graphical model optimization. The algorithm relies on data-parallel primitives (DPPs), which provide portable performance over hardware architecture. We evaluate results on CPUs and GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Brenton Lessley , Talita Perciano , Colleen Heinemann , David Camp , Hank Childs , E. Wes Bethel

We introduce a novel, efficient computational method, ZEUS, for numerical optimization, and provide an open-source implementation. It has four key ingredients: (1) particle swarm optimization (PSO), (2) the use of the…

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The complex regulatory dynamics of a biological network can be succinctly captured using discrete logic models. Given even sparse time-course data from the system of interest, previous work has shown that global optimization schemes are…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-22 Joyce Reimer , Pranta Saha , Chris Chen , Neeraj Dhar , Brook Byrns , Steven Rayan , Gordon Broderick

Estimating the geometric median of a dataset is a robust counterpart to mean estimation, and is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Recently, [HSU24] gave an $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithm obtaining an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Syamantak Kumar , Daogao Liu , Kevin Tian , Chutong Yang

This work focuses on a class of general decentralized constraint-coupled optimization problems. We propose a novel nested primal-dual gradient algorithm (NPGA), which can achieve linear convergence under the weakest known condition, and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Jingwang Li , Housheng Su

In this paper, we study differentially private (DP) algorithms for computing the geometric median (GM) of a dataset: Given $n$ points, $x_1,\dots,x_n$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal is to find a point $\theta$ that minimizes the sum of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Mahdi Haghifam , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Subgraph isomorphism is a well-known NP-hard problem that is widely used in many applications, such as social network analysis and query over the knowledge graph. Due to the inherent hardness, its performance is often a bottleneck in…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Li Zeng , Lei Zou , M. Tamer Özsu , Lin Hu , Fan Zhang

One area of Computing applications which poses significant challenge of performance scalability on Chip Multiprocessors(CMP's) are Irregular applications. Such applications have very little computation and unpredictable memory access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Varun Nagpal

Computational Pangenomics is an emerging field that studies genetic variation using a graph structure encompassing multiple genomes. Visualizing pangenome graphs is vital for understanding genome diversity. Yet, handling large graphs can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiajie Li , Jan-Niklas Schmelzle , Yixiao Du , Simon Heumos , Andrea Guarracino , Giulia Guidi , Pjotr Prins , Erik Garrison , Zhiru Zhang

We present a novel, GPU-optimized algorithm for particle-mesh interactions in grid-based hydrodynamics simulations, designed for massively parallel architectures. This approach overcomes the inefficiency of particle neighbour searches or…

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One of the important problems in multiprocessor systems is Task Graph Scheduling. Task Graph Scheduling is an NP-Hard problem. Both learning automata and genetic algorithms are search tools which are used for solving many NP-Hard problems.…

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The main problems in modeling interacting galaxies are the extended parameter space and the fairly high CPU costs of self-consistent N-body simulations. Therefore, traditional modeling techniques suffer from either extreme CPU demands or…

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We examine the problem of optimizing classification tree evaluation for on-line and real-time applications by using GPUs. Looking at trees with continuous attributes often used in image segmentation, we first put the existing algorithms for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Jason Spencer

Multiprocessor task scheduling is an important and computationally difficult problem. This paper proposes a comparison study of genetic algorithm and list scheduling algorithm. Both algorithms are naturally parallelizable but have heavy…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-02-08 S. R. Vijayalakshmi , G. Padmavathi

We propose a parallel graph-based data clustering algorithm using CUDA GPU, based on exact clustering of the minimum spanning tree in terms of a minimum isoperimetric criteria. We also provide a comparative performance analysis of our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Ramin Javadi , Saleh Ashkboos

We report an efficient algorithm for calculating momentum-space integrals in solid state systems on modern graphics processing units (GPUs). Our algorithm is based on the tetrahedron method, which we demonstrate to be ideally suited for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Daniel Guterding , Harald O. Jeschke

For various optimization methods, gradient descent-based algorithms can achieve outstanding performance and have been widely used in various tasks. Among those commonly used algorithms, ADAM owns many advantages such as fast convergence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Jiyang Bai , Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

We investigate a family of $(\mu+\lambda)$ Genetic Algorithms (GAs) which creates offspring either from mutation or by recombining two randomly chosen parents. By scaling the crossover probability, we can thus interpolate from a fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Furong Ye , Hao Wang , Carola Doerr , Thomas Bäck

We present a GPU-accelerated numerical approach for fast kernel and differential background solutions. The model image proposed in the Bramich (2008) difference image analysis algorithm is analogous to a very simple Convolutional Neural…

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