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This paper discusses the potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-dimensional optimization problems. A single GPU card with hundreds of arithmetic cores can be inserted in a personal computer and dramatically accelerates many…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-13 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange , Marc A. Suchard

In this paper, a fast and practical GPU-based implementation of Fuzzy C-Means(FCM) clustering algorithm for image segmentation is proposed. First, an extensive analysis is conducted to study the dependency among the image pixels in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Mishal Almazrooie , Mogana Vadiveloo , Rosni Abdullah

Branch-and-Bound (B&B) algorithms are time intensive tree-based exploration methods for solving to optimality combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of GPU computing as a major complementary way to speed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Melab Nouredine , Imen Chakroun , Mezmaz Mohand , Daniel Tuyttens

Unstructured-mesh based numerical algorithms such as finite volume and finite element algorithms form an important class of applications for many scientific and engineering domains. The key difficulty in achieving higher performance from…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-07-30 András Attila Sulyok , Gábor Dániel Balogh , István Zoltán Reguly , Gihan R. Mudalige

This article introduces a new connected component labeling and analysis algorithm for foreground and background labeling that computes the adjacency tree. The computation of features (bounding boxes, first statistical moments, Euler number)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Florian Lemaitre , Lionel Lacassagne

We propose a generalized GPU-based connected component labeling (CCL) algorithm that can be applied to both various lattices and to non-lattice environments in a uniform fashion. We extend our recent GPU-based CCL algorithm without the use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Yukihiro Komura

This paper presents a novel meta algorithm, Partition-Merge (PM), which takes existing centralized algorithms for graph computation and makes them distributed and faster. In a nutshell, PM divides the graph into small subgraphs using our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Vincent Blondel , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli , Devavrat Shah

We present a novel local improvement scheme for the perfectly balanced graph partitioning problem. This scheme encodes local searches that are not restricted to a balance constraint into a model allowing us to find combinations of these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

In parallel computing, a valid graph coloring yields a lock-free processing of the colored tasks, data points, etc., without expensive synchronization mechanisms. However, coloring is not free and the overhead can be significant. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Mustafa Kemal Taş , Kamer Kaya , Erik Saule

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

We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

We propose a GPU-based distributed optimization algorithm, aimed at controlling optimal power flow in multi-phase and unbalanced distribution systems. Typically, conventional distributed optimization algorithms employed in such scenarios…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Minseok Ryu , Geunyeong Byeon , Kibaek Kim

A connected component labeling algorithm is developed for implicitly-defined domains specified by multivariate polynomials. The algorithm operates by recursively subdividing the constraint domain into hyperrectangular subcells until the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Robert I. Saye

Connected components and spanning forest are fundamental graph algorithms due to their use in many important applications, such as graph clustering and image segmentation. GPUs are an ideal platform for graph algorithms due to their high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Changwan Hong , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Several variants have been proposed to accommodate parallel architectures. GPUs,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Daniel Jünger , Kevin Kristensen , Yunsong Wang , Xiangyao Yu , Bertil Schmidt

Graph signal processing benefits significantly from the direct and highly adaptable supplementary techniques offered by partition of unity methods (PUMs) on graphs. In our approach, we demonstrate the generation of a partition of unity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Sandro Lancellotti , Federico Romaniello

We state a combinatorial optimization problem whose feasible solutions define both a decomposition and a node labeling of a given graph. This problem offers a common mathematical abstraction of seemingly unrelated computer vision tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Evgeny Levinkov , Jonas Uhrig , Siyu Tang , Mohamed Omran , Eldar Insafutdinov , Alexander Kirillov , Carsten Rother , Thomas Brox , Bernt Schiele , Bjoern Andres

The self-join finds all objects in a dataset within a threshold of each other defined by a similarity metric. As such, the self-join is a building block for the field of databases and data mining, and is employed in Big Data applications.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Michael Gowanlock , Ben Karsin

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

An improved algorithm is proposed for the reconstruction of singular connectivity from the available pairwise connections during preprocessing phase. To evaluate the performance of the algorithm, an in-house computational fluid dynamics…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Wang Yong-Xian , Zhang Li-Lun , Che Yong-Gang , Xu Chuan-Fu , Liu Wei , Liu Hua-Yong , Wang Zheng-Hua