English
Related papers

Related papers: A Randomized Algorithm for Preconditioner Selectio…

200 papers

This work aims to accelerate the convergence of proximal gradient methods used to solve regularized linear inverse problems. This is achieved by designing a polynomial-based preconditioner that targets the eigenvalue spectrum of the normal…

In this paper, we propose a descent method for composite optimization problems with linear operators. Specifically, we first design a structure-exploiting preconditioner tailored to the linear operator so that the resulting preconditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jian Chen , Xinmin Yang

We present a novel preconditioning technique for proximal optimization methods that relies on graph algorithms to construct effective preconditioners. Such combinatorial preconditioners arise from partitioning the graph into forests. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Thomas Möllenhoff , Zhenzhang Ye , Tao Wu , Daniel Cremers

Iterative sketching and sketch-and-precondition are randomized algorithms used for solving overdetermined linear least-squares problems. When implemented in exact arithmetic, these algorithms produce high-accuracy solutions to least-squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Ethan N. Epperly

We analyze the conjugate gradient (CG) method with variable preconditioning for solving a linear system with a real symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix of coefficients $A$. We assume that the preconditioner is SPD on each step, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-24 Andrew V. Knyazev , Ilya Lashuk

We present a novel linear solver that works well for large systems obtained from discretizing PDEs. It is robust and, for the examples we studied, the computational effort scales linearly with the number of equations. The algorithm is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Klaus Lackner , Ralph Menikoff

We explore a scaled spectral preconditioner for the efficient solution of sequences of symmetric and positive-definite linear systems. We design the scaled preconditioner not only as an approximation of the inverse of the linear system but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Youssef Diouane , Selime Gürol , Oussama Mouhtal , Dominique Orban

Large linear systems are ubiquitous in modern computational science and engineering. The main recipe for solving them is the use of Krylov subspace iterative methods with well-designed preconditioners. Recently, GNNs have been shown to be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Vladislav Trifonov , Alexander Rudikov , Oleg Iliev , Yuri M. Laevsky , Ivan Oseledets , Ekaterina Muravleva

Latent variable models are powerful tools for modeling complex phenomena involving in particular partially observed data, unobserved variables or underlying complex unknown structures. Inference is often difficult due to the latent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Charlotte Baey , Maud Delattre , Estelle Kuhn , Jean-Benoist Leger , Sarah Lemler

We present a robust and scalable preconditioner for the solution of large-scale linear systems that arise from the discretization of elliptic PDEs amenable to rank compression. The preconditioner is based on hierarchical low-rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Gustavo Chávez , George Turkiyyah , Stefano Zampini , David Keyes

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) still is the workhorse for many practical problems. However, it converges slow, and can be difficult to tune. It is possible to precondition SGD to accelerate its convergence remarkably. But many attempts…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-23 Xi-Lin Li

We propose a new random sketching approach for embedding high-dimensional Hilbert-Schmidt operators, using random input-output pairs. Such operator can then be approximated in a low-dimensional subspace of operators by solving a small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Oleg Balabanov , Anthony Nouy , Alexandre Pasco

The discretization of robust quadratic optimal control problems under uncertainty using the finite element method and the stochastic collocation method leads to large saddle-point systems, which are fully coupled across the random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

This article is concerned with the question of constructing effcient multigrid preconditioners for the linear systems arising when applying semismooth Newton methods to large-scale linear-quadratic optimization problems constrained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Andrei Draganescu

We present a randomized algorithm that, on input a symmetric, weakly diagonally dominant n-by-n matrix A with m nonzero entries and an n-vector b, produces a y such that $\norm{y - \pinv{A} b}_{A} \leq \epsilon \norm{\pinv{A} b}_{A}$ in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

We study the solution of large symmetric positive-definite linear systems in a matrix-free setting with a limited iteration budget. We focus on the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) method with spectral preconditioning. Spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Youssef Diouane , Selime Gürol , Oussama Mouhtal , Dominique Orban

We study a preconditioner for a Hermitian positive definite linear system, which is obtained as the solution of a matrix nearness problem based on the Bregman log determinant divergence. The preconditioner is of the form of a Hermitian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Andreas Bock , Martin S. Andersen

Convolution-type integral equations arise from various fields, \textit{e.g.}, finite impulse response filters in signal processing and deblurring problems in image processing. When solving these equations, conventional numerical methods,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Raymond Chan , Lingfeng Li

Kernel methods are a popular class of nonlinear predictive models in machine learning. Scalable algorithms for learning kernel models need to be iterative in nature, but convergence can be slow due to poor conditioning. Spectral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-26 Amirhesam Abedsoltan , Parthe Pandit , Luis Rademacher , Mikhail Belkin

In this paper, we address the efficient numerical solution of linear and quadratic programming problems, often of large scale. With this aim, we devise an infeasible interior point method, blended with the proximal method of multipliers,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Luca Bergamaschi , Jacek Gondzio , Ángeles Martínez , John W. Pearson , Spyridon Pougkakiotis