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Standard gradient-based iteration algorithms for optimization, such as gradient descent and its various proximal-based extensions to nonsmooth problems, are known to converge slowly for ill-conditioned problems, sometimes requiring many…

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This paper presents an efficient and concise double fast algorithm to solve high dimensional time-space fractional diffusion problems with spectral fractional Laplacian. We first establish semi-discrete scheme of time-space fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Yi Yang , Jin Huang

Pose graph optimization (PGO) is fundamental to robot perception and navigation systems, serving as the mathematical backbone for solving simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Existing solvers suffer from polynomial growth in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Xin Chen , Chunfeng Cui , Deren Han , Liqun Qi

The number of parameters in large-scale language models based on transformers is gradually increasing, and the scale of computing clusters is also growing. The technology of quickly mobilizing large amounts of computing resources for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zongbiao Li , Xiezhao Li , Yinghao Cui , Yijun Chen , Zhixuan Gu , Yuxuan Liu , Wenbo Zhu , Fei Jia , Ke Liu , Qifeng Li , Junyao Zhan , Jiangtao Zhou , Chenxi Zhang , Qike Liu

We show that the acceptance probability for swaps in the parallel tempering Monte Carlo method for classical canonical systems is given by a universal function that depends on the average statistical fluctuations of the potential and on the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristian Predescu , Mihaela Predescu , Cristian V. Ciobanu

We derive a parallel sampling algorithm for computational inverse problems that present an unknown linear forcing term and a vector of nonlinear parameters to be recovered. It is assumed that the data is noisy and that the linear part of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Darko Volkov

Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of different mechanical systems. In this paper, we introduce an iterative procedure for the solution of discrete variational equations for boundary value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Sebastián J. Ferraro , David Martín de Diego , Rodrigo Takuro Sato Martín de Almagro

The method of tempered transitions was proposed by Neal (1996) for tackling the difficulties arising when using Markov chain Monte Carlo to sample from multimodal distributions. In common with methods such as simulated tempering and…

Computation · Statistics 2012-09-11 Gundula Behrens , Nial Friel , Merrilee Hurn

A parallel splitting method is proposed for solving systems of coupled monotone inclusions in Hilbert spaces. Convergence is established for a wide class of coupling schemes. Unlike classical alternating algorithms, which are limited to two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-26 H. Attouch , L. M. Briceno-Arias , P. L. Combettes

In this paper we proposed two new quasi-boundary value methods for regularizing the ill-posed backward heat conduction problems. With a standard finite difference discretization in space and time, the obtained all-at-once nonsymmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Jun Liu

Recently, we have proposed a novel approach (arxiv:1205.3996) to deal with the sign problem that hinders Monte Carlo simulations of many quantum field theories (QFTs). The approach consists in formulating the QFT on a Lefschetz thimble. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-11 Marco Cristoforetti , Francesco Di Renzo , Luigi Scorzato

The performance of flow matching and diffusion models can be greatly improved at inference time using reward alignment algorithms, yet efficiency remains a major limitation. While several algorithms were proposed, we demonstrate that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Peter Holderrieth , Uriel Singer , Tommi Jaakkola , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Yaron Lipman , Brian Karrer

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) underlies both statistical physics and combinatorial optimization, but mixes slowly near critical points and in rough landscapes. Parallel Tempering (PT) improves mixing by swapping replicas across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Saleh Bunaiyan , Corentin Delacour , Shuvro Chowdhury , Kyle Lee , Kerem Y. Camsari

Simulations of systems with quenched disorder are extremely demanding, suffering from the combined effect of slow relaxation and the need of performing the disorder average. As a consequence, new algorithms, improved implementations, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Ravinder Kumar , Jonathan Gross , Wolfhard Janke , Martin Weigel

In this work, we present an efficient approach to solve nonlinear high-contrast multiscale diffusion problems. We incorporate the explicit-implicit-null (EIN) method to separate the nonlinear term into a linear term and a damping term, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Yating Wang , Wing Tat Leung

In this paper we describe a numerical method designed for modelling different kinds of astrophysical flows in three dimensions. Our method is a standard explicit finite difference method employing the local shearing-box technique. To model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. E. Caunt , M. J. Korpi

Smoothing filter is the method of choice for image preprocessing and pattern recognition. We present a new concurrent method for smoothing 2D object in binary case. Proposed method provides a parallel computation while preserving the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Ramzi Mahmoudi , Mohamed Akil

The generalized method to have a parallel solution to a computational problem, is to find a way to use Divide & Conquer paradigm in order to have processors acting on its own data and therefore all can be scheduled in parallel. MapReduce is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Julián Aráoz , Cristina Zoltan

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) serves as a versatile framework for modeling a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems, typically addressed by sophisticated exact solvers or heuristics. While learning-based approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kyuil Sim , Sanghyeok Choi , Jinkyoo Park

A new algorithm for Monte Carlo calculation of the double exchange model is studied. The algorithm is commonly applicable to wide classes of strongly correlated electron systems which involve itinerant electrons coupled with…

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