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Based on current trends in computer architectures, faster compute speeds must come from increased parallelism rather than increased clock speeds, which are currently stagnate. This situation has created the well-known bottleneck for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Masumi Sugiyama , Jacob B. Schroder , Ben S. Southworth , Stephanie Friedhoff

Parallel-in-time algorithms have been successfully employed for reducing time-to-solution of a variety of partial differential equations, especially for diffusive (parabolic-type) equations. A major failing of parallel-in-time approaches to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Hans De Sterck , Stephanie Friedhoff , Alexander J. M. Howse , Scott P. MacLachlan

This work presents a maximum entropy principle based algorithm for solving minimum multiway $k$-cut problem defined over static and dynamic {\em digraphs}. A multiway $k$-cut problem requires partitioning the set of nodes in a graph into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mayank Baranwal , Amber Srivastava , Srinivasa Salapaka

Large linear systems with sparse, non-symmetric matrices arise in the modeling of Markov chains or in the discretization of convection-diffusion problems. Due to their potential to solve sparse linear systems with an effort that is linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Benjamin Seibold

Many complex applications require the solution of initial-value problems where some components change fast, while others vary slowly. Multirate schemes apply different step sizes to resolve different components of the system, according to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Michael Guenther , Adrian Sandu

We propose a new numerical algorithm to construct a structured numerical elliptic grid of a doubly connected domain. Our method is applicable to domains with boundaries defined by two contour lines of a two-dimensional function. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Matthias Wiesenberger , Markus Held , Lukas Einkemmer

Nonlinear equations are challenging to solve due to their inherently nonlinear nature. As analytical solutions typically do not exist, numerical methods have been developed to tackle their solutions. In this article, we give a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

The modern ability to collect vast quantities of data poses a challenge for parameter estimation problems. When posed as a nonlinear least squares problem fitting a model to data, the cost of each iteration grows linearly with the amount of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Jeffrey M. Hokanson

We present a comparison of different multigrid approaches for the solution of systems arising from high-order continuous finite element discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations on complex geometries. We consider the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Hari Sundar , Georg Stadler , George Biros

This paper presents a matrix-free multigrid method for solving the Stokes problem, discretized using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming discontinuous Galerkin methods. We employ a Schur complement method combined with the fast diagonalization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

The Truncated Nonsmooth Newton Multigrid (TNNMG) method is a robust and efficient solution method for a wide range of block-separable convex minimization problems, typically stemming from discretizations of nonlinear and nonsmooth partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Carsten Gräser , Oliver Sander

We study a semismooth Newton-type method for the nearest doubly stochastic matrix problem where both differentiability and nonsingularity of the Jacobian can fail. The optimality conditions for this problem are formulated as a system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Hao Hu , Haesol Im , Xinxin Li , Henry Wolkowicz

The minimum cost flow problem is one of the most studied network optimization problems and appears in numerous applications. Some efficient algorithms exist for this problem, which are freely available in the form of libraries or software…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Philipp Herrmann , Anna Meyer , Stefan Ruzika , Luca E. Schäfer , Fabian von der Warth

The unsupervised task of aligning two or more distributions in a shared latent space has many applications including fair representations, batch effect mitigation, and unsupervised domain adaptation. Existing flow-based approaches estimate…

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We study nonlinear constrained optimization problems in which only function evaluations of the objective and constraints are available. Existing zeroth-order methods rely on noisy gradient and Jacobian surrogates in high dimensions, making…

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Clustering is a hard discrete optimization problem. Nonconvex approaches such as low-rank semidefinite programming (SDP) have recently demonstrated promising statistical and local algorithmic guarantees for cluster recovery. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Peng Xu , Chun-Ying Hou , Xiaohui Chen , Richard Y. Zhang

As CPU clock speeds have stagnated and high performance computers continue to have ever higher core counts, increased parallelism is needed to take advantage of these new architectures. Traditional serial time-marching schemes can be a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-29 David A. Vargas , Robert D. Falgout , Stefanie Günther , Jacob B. Schroder

In this manuscript, we present a collective multigrid algorithm to solve efficiently the large saddle-point systems of equations that typically arise in PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and develop a novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

We present a successive constraint approach that makes it possible to cheaply solve large-scale linear matrix inequalities for a large number of parameter values. The efficiency of our method is made possible by an offline/online…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Robert O'Connor

A classical approach for solving discrete time nonlinear control on a finite horizon consists in repeatedly minimizing linear quadratic approximations of the original problem around current candidate solutions. While widely popular in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vincent Roulet , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Maryam Fazel , Zaid Harchaoui