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We propose a new parallel-in-time algorithm for solving optimal control problems constrained by discretized partial differential equations. Our approach, which is based on a deeper understanding of ParaExp, considers an overlapping…
In this paper, we present a method that enables solving in parallel the Euler-Lagrange system associated with the optimal control of a parabolic equation. Our approach is based on an iterative update of a sequence of intermediate targets…
Parareal is a well-studied algorithm for numerically integrating systems of time-dependent differential equations by parallelising the temporal domain. Given approximate initial values at each temporal sub-interval, the algorithm locates a…
In this paper, we consider the problem of stochastic optimization, where the objective function is in terms of the expectation of a (possibly non-convex) cost function that is parametrized by a random variable. While the convergence speed…
This paper presents a highly-parallelizable parallel-in-time algorithm for efficient solution of nonlinear time-periodic problems. It is based on the time-periodic extension of the Parareal method, known to accelerate sequential…
In this article, we present a parallel discretization and solution method for parabolic problems with a higher number of space dimensions. It consists of a parallel-in-time approach using the multigrid reduction-in-time algorithm MGRIT with…
We present two parallel optimization algorithms for a convex function $f$. The first algorithm optimizes over linear inequality constraints in a Hilbert space, $\mathbb H$, and the second over a non convex polyhedron in $\mathbb R^n$. The…
In this paper we present a new steepest-descent type algorithm for convex optimization problems. Our algorithm pieces the unknown into sub-blocs of unknowns and considers a partial optimization over each sub-bloc. In quadratic optimization,…
Many inverse and parameter estimation problems can be written as PDE-constrained optimization problems. The goal, then, is to infer the parameters, typically coefficients of the PDE, from partial measurements of the solutions of the PDE for…
Simulation of the monodomain equation, crucial for modeling the heart's electrical activity, faces scalability limits when traditional numerical methods only parallelize in space. To optimize the use of large multi-processor computers by…
In this paper we propose a parallel coordinate descent algorithm for solving smooth convex optimization problems with separable constraints that may arise e.g. in distributed model predictive control (MPC) for linear network systems. Our…
We present and mathematically analyze an online adjoint algorithm for the optimization of partial differential equations (PDEs). Traditional adjoint algorithms would typically solve a new adjoint PDE at each optimization iteration, which…
The time domain analysis of eddy current problems often requires the simulation of long time intervals, e.g. until a steady state is reached. Fast-switching excitations e.g. in pulsedwidth modulated signals require in addition very small…
This paper presents a new algorithm for the parallel in time (PiT) numerical simulation of time dependent partial/ordinary differential equations. We propose a reliable alternative to the well know parareal in time algorithm, by formulating…
This paper proposes a parallel in time (called also time parareal) method to solve Volterra integral equations of the second kind. The parallel in time approach follows the same spirit as the domain decomposition that consists of breaking…
In view of the existing limitations of sequential computing, parallelization has emerged as an alternative in order to improve the speedup of numerical simulations. In the framework of evolutionary problems, space-time parallel methods…
We consider the problem of selecting the best variable-value strategy for solving a given problem in constraint programming. We show that the recent Embarrassingly Parallel Search method (EPS) can be used for this purpose. EPS proposes to…
The goal of this work is to parallelize the multistep scheme for the numerical approximation of the backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) in order to achieve both, a high accuracy and a reduction of the computation time as…
In this work, we investigate the potential utility of parallelization for meeting real-time constraints and minimizing energy. We consider malleable Gang scheduling of implicit-deadline sporadic tasks upon multiprocessors. We first show the…
We present a time-parallelization method that enables to accelerate the computation of quantum optimal control algorithms. We show that this approach is approximately fully efficient when based on a gradient method as optimization solver:…