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All-pairs similarity problem asks to find all vector pairs in a set of vectors the similarities of which surpass a given similarity threshold, and it is a computational kernel in data mining and information retrieval for several tasks. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Eray Özkural , Cevdet Aykanat

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

We present a simple spectral approach to the well-studied constrained clustering problem. It captures constrained clustering as a generalized eigenvalue problem with graph Laplacians. The algorithm works in nearly-linear time and provides…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Mihai Cucuringu , Ioannis Koutis , Sanjay Chawla , Gary Miller , Richard Peng

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

Current algorithms for large-scale industrial optimization problems typically face a trade-off: they either require exponential time to reach optimal solutions, or employ problem-specific heuristics. To overcome these limitations, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Matteo Vandelli , Francesco Ferrari , Daniele Dragoni

We consider the minimum-cut partitioning of a graph into more than two parts using spectral methods. While there exist well-established spectral algorithms for this problem that give good results, they have traditionally not been well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Maria A. Riolo , M. E. J. Newman

Modeling data sharing in GPU programs is a challenging task because of the massive parallelism and complex data sharing patterns provided by GPU architectures. Better GPU caching efficiency can be achieved through careful task scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Lingda Li , Ari B. Hayes , Stephen A. Hackler , Eddy Z. Zhang , Mario Szegedy , Shuaiwen Leon Song

Distributed computing excels at processing large scale data, but the communication cost for synchronizing the shared parameters may slow down the overall performance. Fortunately, the interactions between parameter and data in many problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Mu Li , Dave G. Andersen , Alexander J. Smola

A* is a best-first search algorithm for finding optimal-cost paths in graphs. A* benefits significantly from parallelism because in many applications, A* is limited by memory usage, so distributed memory implementations of A* that use all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Alex Fukunaga , Adi Botea , Yuu Jinnai , Akihiro Kishimoto

A scalable algorithm for solving compact banded linear systems on distributed memory architectures is presented. The proposed method factorizes the original system into two levels of memory hierarchies, and solves it using parallel cyclic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Hang Song , Kristen V. Matsuno , Jacob R. West , Akshay Subramaniam , Aditya S. Ghate , Sanjiva K. Lele

This paper proposes a scalable algorithmic framework for spectral reduction of large undirected graphs. The proposed method allows computing much smaller graphs while preserving the key spectral (structural) properties of the original…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Zhiqiang Zhao , Yongyu Wang , Zhuo Feng

In geometry processing, numerical optimization methods often involve solving sparse linear systems of equations. These linear systems have a structure that strongly resembles to adjacency graphs of the underlying mesh. We observe how…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Nicolas Ray , Sokolov Dmitry

Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. SC can be used in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Daniele Grattarola , Cesare Alippi

This article presents new algorithms for massively parallel granular dynamics simulations on distributed memory architectures using a domain partitioning approach. Collisions are modelled with hard contacts in order to hide their…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Tobias Preclik , Ulrich Rüde

The vast amounts of data used in social, business or traffic networks, biology and other natural sciences are often managed in graph-based data sets, consisting of a few thousand up to billions and trillions of vertices and edges,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Matthias Hauck , Ismail Oukid , Holger Fröning

Balanced partitioning is often a crucial first step in solving large-scale graph optimization problems, e.g., in some cases, a big graph can be chopped into pieces that fit on one machine to be processed independently before stitching the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Kevin Aydin , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

This paper presents a framework that supports the implementation of parallel solutions for the widespread parametric maximum flow computational routines used in image segmentation algorithms. The framework is based on supergraphs, a special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Vlad Olaru , Mihai Florea , Cristian Sminchisescu

Recent spectral graph sparsification techniques have shown promising performance in accelerating many numerical and graph algorithms, such as iterative methods for solving large sparse matrices, spectral partitioning of undirected graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ying Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

Many graph problems can be solved using ordered parallel graph algorithms that achieve significant speedup over their unordered counterparts by reducing redundant work. This paper introduces a new priority-based extension to GraphIt, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Yunming Zhang , Ajay Brahmakshatriya , Xinyi Chen , Laxman Dhulipala , Shoaib Kamil , Saman Amarasinghe , Julian Shun

Algorithms for finding minimum or bounded vertex covers in graphs use a branch-and-reduce strategy, which involves exploring a highly imbalanced search tree. Prior GPU solutions assign different thread blocks to different sub-trees, while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hussein Amro , Basel Fakhri , Amer E. Mouawad , Izzat El Hajj