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GPUs have significantly accelerated first-order methods for large-scale optimization, especially in continuous optimization. However, this success has not transferred cleanly to problems with discrete variables, combinatorial structure, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiachang Liu , Andrea Lodi

Scenario-based stochastic optimal control problems suffer from the curse of dimensionality as they can easily grow to six and seven figure sizes. First-order methods are suitable as they can deal with such large-scale problems, but may fail…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Ajay K. Sampathirao , Panagiotis Patrinos , Alberto Bemporad , Pantelis Sopasakis

Planning long-horizon robot manipulation requires making discrete decisions about which objects to interact with and continuous decisions about how to interact with them. A robot planner must select grasps, placements, and motions that are…

Machine learning for partial differential equations (PDEs) is a hot topic. In this paper we introduce and analyse a Deep BSDE scheme for nonlinear integro-PDEs with unbounded nonlocal operators -problems arising in e.g. stochastic control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Espen Robstad Jakobsen , Sehail Mazid

Genetic Programming (GP), an evolutionary learning technique, has multiple applications in machine learning such as curve fitting, data modelling, feature selection, classification etc. GP has several inherent parallel steps, making it an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Vimarsh Sathia , Venkataramana Ganesh , Shankara Rao Thejaswi Nanditale

We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

We present an algorithm specifically tailored for solving kinetic equations onto GPUs. The efficiency of the algorithm is demonstrated by solving the one-dimensional shock wave structure problem and a two-dimensional low Mach number driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Aldo Frezzotti , Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

We present a case-study on the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation of advanced Monte Carlo methods. Graphics cards, containing multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), are self-contained parallel…

Computation · Statistics 2015-05-05 Anthony Lee , Christopher Yau , Michael B. Giles , Arnaud Doucet , Christopher C. Holmes

Eulerian nonlinear uncertainty propagation methods often suffer from finite domain limitations and computational inefficiencies. A recent approach to this class of algorithm, Grid-based Bayesian Estimation Exploiting Sparsity, addresses the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-20 Benjamin L. Hanson , Carlos Rubio , Adrián García-Gutiérrez , Thomas Bewley

Nowadays, several industrial applications are being ported to parallel architectures. These applications take advantage of the potential parallelism provided by multiple core processors. Many-core processors, especially the GPUs(Graphics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Wendell Rodrigues , Frédéric Guyomarc'h , Jean-Luc Dekeyser

In this work, a new parallel dual-grid multiscale approach for CFD-DEM couplings is investigated. Dual- grid multiscale CFD-DEM couplings have been recently developed and successfully adopted in different applications still, an efficient…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Gabriele Pozzetti , Hrvoje Jasak , Xavier Besseron , Alban Rousset , Bernhard Peters

A new flow solver scalable on multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for direct numerical simulation of wall-bounded incompressible flow is presented. This solver utilizes a previously reported work (J. Comp. Physics, vol. 352 (2018),…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Sanghyun Ha , Junshin Park , Donghyun You

We introduce a novel numerical approach for a class of stochastic dynamic programs which arise as discretizations of backward stochastic differential equations or semi-linear partial differential equations. Solving such dynamic programs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Christian Bender , Christian Gaertner , Nikolaus Schweizer

We propose a highly parallel primal-dual algorithm for the multicut (a.k.a. correlation clustering) problem, a classical graph clustering problem widely used in machine learning and computer vision. Our algorithm consists of three steps…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ahmed Abbas , Paul Swoboda

The pricing of American style and multiple exercise options is a very challenging problem in mathematical finance. One usually employs a Least-Square Monte Carlo approach (Longstaff-Schwartz method) for the evaluation of conditional…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-01-19 Gilles Pagès , Benedikt Wilbertz

We equip dynamic geometry software (DGS) with a user-friendly method that enables massively parallel calculations on the graphics processing unit (GPU). This interplay of DGS and GPU opens up various applications in education and…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Aaron Montag , Jürgen Richter-Gebert

We show that accelerated optimization methods can be seen as particular instances of multi-step integration schemes from numerical analysis, applied to the gradient flow equation. In comparison with recent advances in this vein, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Damien Scieur , Vincent Roulet , Francis Bach , Alexandre d'Aspremont

Electrostatic interactions play crucial roles in biophysical processes such as protein folding and molecular recognition. Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE)-based models have emerged as widely used in modeling these important processes.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Ruxi Qi , Wesley M. Botello-Smith , Ray Luo

In this paper, we present a GPU-accelerated direct-sum boundary integral method to solve the linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation. In our method, a well-posed boundary integral formulation is used to ensure the fast convergence of Krylov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Weihua Geng , Ferosh Jacob

In this paper we study different algorithms for reflected backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE in short) with two continuous barriers basing on random work framework. We introduce different numerical algorithms by penalization…

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