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We investigate the concept of rendering production-style content with full path tracing in a data-distributed fashion -- that is, with multiple collaborating nodes and/or GPUs that each store only part of the model. In particular, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ingo Wald , Steven G Parker

Differentiable rendering is a technique used in an important emerging class of visual computing applications that involves representing a 3D scene as a model that is trained from 2D images using gradient descent. Recent works (e.g. 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Sankeerth Durvasula , Adrian Zhao , Fan Chen , Ruofan Liang , Pawan Kumar Sanjaya , Nandita Vijaykumar

This paper introduces a framework for distributed parallel image signal extrapolation. Since high-quality image signal processing often comes along with a high computational complexity, a parallel execution is desirable. The proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

The purpose of this text is to provide an accessible introduction to a set of recently developed algorithms for factorizing matrices. These new algorithms attain high practical speed by reducing the dimensionality of intermediate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

This paper presents new parallel algorithms for generating Euclidean minimum spanning trees and spatial clustering hierarchies (known as HDBSCAN$^*$). Our approach is based on generating a well-separated pair decomposition followed by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yiqiu Wang , Shangdi Yu , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

Two new algorithms are described for matching two dimensional coordinate lists of point sources that are signifcantly faster than previous methods. By matching rarely occurring triangles (or more complex shapes) in the two lists, and by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Tabur

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to growing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods such as spectral partitioning can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Julian Shun , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Kimon Fountoulakis , Michael W. Mahoney

We show that a simple algorithm for computing a matching on a graph runs in a logarithmic number of phases incurring work linear in the input size. The algorithm can be adapted to provide efficient algorithms in several models of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Marcel Birn , Vitaly Osipov , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz , Nodari Sitchinava

SCAN (Structural Clustering Algorithm for Networks) is a well-studied, widely used graph clustering algorithm. For large graphs, however, sequential SCAN variants are prohibitively slow, and parallel SCAN variants do not effectively share…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Tom Tseng , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

This paper presents an implementation of radio astronomy imaging algorithms on modern High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures, exploiting distributed memory parallelism and acceleration throughout multiple GPUs. Our code, called…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Emanuele De Rubeis , Giovanni Lacopo , Claudio Gheller , Luca Tornatore , Giuliano Taffoni

We present here a new algorithm for the fast computation of N-point correlation functions in large astronomical data sets. The algorithm is based on kdtrees which are decorated with cached sufficient statistics thus allowing for orders of…

In many problems in Computational Physics and Chemistry, one finds a special kind of sparse matrices, termed "banded matrices". These matrices, which are defined as having non-zero entries only within a given distance from the main…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Pablo García-Risueño , Pablo Echenique

The Reeb graph of a scalar function defined on a domain gives a topologically meaningful summary of that domain. Reeb graphs have been shown in the past decade to be of great importance in geometric processing, image processing, computer…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Mustafa Hajij , Paul Rosen

The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art algorithm for causal structure discovery on observational data. It can be computationally expensive in the worst case due to the conditional independence tests are performed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kai Zhang , Chao Tian , Kun Zhang , Todd Johnson , Xiaoqian Jiang

Featured by centralized processing and cloud based infrastructure, Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a promising solution to achieve an unprecedented system capacity in future wireless cellular networks. The huge capacity gain mainly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Congmin Fan , Ying Jun Zhang , Xiaojun Yuan

Iterative refinement (IR) is a popular scheme for solving a linear system of equations based on gradually improving the accuracy of an initial approximation. Originally developed to improve upon the accuracy of Gaussian elimination,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Chai Wah Wu , Mark S. Squillante , Vasileios Kalantzis , Lior Horesh

General Purpose computing on Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU) has resulted in unprecedented levels of speedup over its CPU counterparts, allowing programmers to harness the computational power of GPU shader cores to accelerate other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Vani Nagarajan , Milind Kulkarni

Pathfinding is a very popular area in computer game development. While two-dimensional (2D) pathfinding is widely applied in most of the popular game engines, little implementation of real three-dimensional (3D) pathfinding can be found.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Diptangshu Pandit

Skyline computation is an essential database operation that has many applications in multi-criteria decision making scenarios such as recommender systems. Existing algorithms have focused on checking point domination, which lack efficiency…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Chuanwen Li , Yu Gu , Jianzhong Qi , Ge Yu

Modern neural network-based algorithms are able to produce highly accurate depth estimates from stereo image pairs, nearly matching the reliability of measurements from more expensive depth sensors. However, this accuracy comes with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Kyle Yee , Ayan Chakrabarti