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Solving inverse problems and achieving statistical rigour in landscape evolution models requires running many model realizations. Parallel computation is necessary to achieve this in a reasonable time. However, no previous algorithm is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Richard Barnes

One of the most widely used methods for solving large-scale stochastic optimization problems is distributed asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (DASGD), a family of algorithms that result from parallelizing stochastic gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Zhengyuan Zhou , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Nicholas Bambos , Peter W. Glynn , Yinyu Ye

Numerically solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is a naturally serial process and as a result the vast majority of ODE solver software are serial. In this manuscript we developed a set of parallelized ODE solvers using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Utkarsh , Chris Elrod , Yingbo Ma , Christopher Rackauckas

We contribute improvements to a Lagrangian dual solution approach applied to large-scale optimization problems whose objective functions are convex, continuously differentiable and possibly nonlinear, while the non-relaxed constraint set is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Brian Dandurand , Natashia Boland , Jeffrey Christiansen , Andrew Eberhard , Fabricio Oliveira

We introduce an efficient first-order primal-dual method for the solution of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems. We achieve this efficiency through not solving the PDE or its linearisation on each iteration of the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Bjørn Jensen , Tuomo Valkonen

The focus of my PhD thesis is on exploring parallel approaches to efficiently solve problems modeled by constraints and presenting a new proposal. Current solvers are very advanced; they are carefully designed to effectively manage the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Fabio Tardivo

This paper introduces a parallel-in-time algorithm for efficient steady-state solution of the eddy current problem. Its main idea is based on the application of the well-known multi-harmonic (or harmonic balance) approach as the coarse…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Iryna Kulchytska-Ruchka , Herbert De Gersem , Sebastian Schöps

In this paper, we propose a parallel-in-time algorithm for approximately solving parabolic equations. In particular, we apply the $k$-step backward differentiation formula, and then develop an iterative solver by using the waveform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Shuonan Wu , Zhi Zhou

This work presents a parallel variant of the algorithm introduced in [Acceleration of block coordinate descent methods with identification strategies Comput. Optim. Appl. 72(3):609--640, 2019] to minimize the sum of a partially separable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Ronaldo Lopes , Sandra A. Santos , Paulo J. S. Silva

Combinatorial problems stated as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) are examined. It is shown by example that any algorithm designed for the original CSP, and involving the AllDifferent constraint, has at least the same level of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Geoff Harris

Lagrangian particle methods based on detailed atomic and molecular models are powerful computational tools for studying the dynamics of microscale and nanoscale systems. However, the maximum time step is limited by the smallest oscillation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ansel L. Blumers , Zhen Li , George Em Karniadakis

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) by numerical methods meet computational cost challenge for getting the accurate solution since fine grids and small time steps are required. Machine learning can accelerate this process, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Qi Wang , Yuan Mi , Haoyun Wang , Yi Zhang , Ruizhi Chengze , Hongsheng Liu , Ji-Rong Wen , Hao Sun

Pareto optimization via evolutionary multi-objective algorithms has been shown to efficiently solve constrained monotone submodular functions. Traditionally when solving multiple problems, the algorithm is run for each problem separately.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liam Wigney , Frank Neumann

This paper introduces Exp-ParaDiag, a novel time-parallel method that combines the strength of exponential integrators into the ParaDiag framework. We develop and analyze Exp-ParaDiag based on first and second order accurate exponential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Gobinda Garai , Nagaiah Chamakuri

Most machine learning and deep neural network algorithms rely on certain iterative algorithms to optimise their utility/cost functions, e.g. Stochastic Gradient Descent. In distributed learning, the networked nodes have to work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Liang Wang , Ben Catterall , Richard Mortier

This paper introduces a new method of partitioning the solution space of a multi-objective optimisation problem for parallel processing, called Efficient Projection Partitioning. This method projects solutions down into a single dimension,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 William Pettersson , Melih Ozlen

While previous work on energy-efficient algorithms focused on assumption that tasks can be assigned to any processor, we initially study the problem of task scheduling on restricted parallel processors. The objective is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Ying Song , Liya Fan , Zhiyong Liu

In this work we investigate the practicality of stochastic gradient descent and recently introduced variants with variance-reduction techniques in imaging inverse problems. Such algorithms have been shown in the machine learning literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Junqi Tang , Karen Egiazarian , Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike Davies

This paper proposes a parallel-in-time method for computing continuous-time maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) trajectory estimates of the states of partially observed stochastic differential equations (SDEs), with the goal of improving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hassan Razavi , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Simo Särkkä

We study parallel algorithms for the minimization of Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs). In particular, we implement four different massively parallel algorithms on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Our results confirm the expectations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jan Martens , Anton Wijs