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In this note we present a multigrid preconditioning method for solving quadratic optimization problems constrained by a fractional diffusion equation. Multigrid methods within the all-at-once approach to solve the first order-order…

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An efficient linear solver plays an important role while solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs) type mathematical models. In most cases, the efficiency depends on the stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Samir Kumar Bhowmik

We propose, analyze, and test new iterative solvers for large-scale systems of linear algebraic equations arising from the finite element discretization of reduced optimality systems defining the finite element approximations to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

We consider the setting of distributed empirical risk minimization where multiple machines compute the gradients in parallel and a centralized server updates the model parameters. In order to reduce the number of communications required to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Hadrien Hendrikx , Lin Xiao , Sebastien Bubeck , Francis Bach , Laurent Massoulie

This paper introduces inexact versions of several block-splitting preconditioners for solving the three-by-three block linear systems arising from a special class of indefinite least squares problems. We first establish the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Mohaddese Kaveh Shaldehi , Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

Optimization problems with constraints in the form of a partial differential equation arise frequently in the process of engineering design. The discretization of PDE-constrained optimization problems results in large-scale linear systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Jacek Gondzio , Pavel Zhlobich

A symmetric and a nonsymmetric variant of the additive Schwarz preconditioner are proposed for the solution of a nonsymmetric system of algebraic equations arising from a general finite volume element discretization of symmetric elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Leszek Marcinkowski , Talal Rahman , Atle Loneland , Jan Valdman

Polynomial preconditioning is an important tool in solving large linear systems and eigenvalue problems. A polynomial from GMRES can be used to precondition restarted GMRES and restarted Arnoldi. Here we give methods for indefinite matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Hayden Henson , Ronald B. Morgan

Polynomial preconditioning can improve the convergence of the Arnoldi method for computing eigenvalues. Such preconditioning significantly reduces the cost of orthogonalization; for difficult problems, it can also reduce the number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Mark Embree , Jennifer A. Loe , Ronald B. Morgan

When given a generalized matrix separation problem, which aims to recover a low rank matrix $L_0$ and a sparse matrix $S_0$ from $M_0=L_0+HS_0$, the work \cite{CW25} proposes a novel convex optimization problem whose objective function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Xuemei Chen , Owen Deen

We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze an optimal control problem for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation (PDE); control constraints are also considered. We establish the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Enrique Otarola

In this paper, we consider an efficient iterative approach to the solution of the discrete Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet, Neumann and Sommerfeld-like boundary conditions based on a compact sixth order approximation scheme and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Yury Gryazin

In this work, we propose a generalized alternating nonlinear generalized minimal residual method (GA-NGMRES) to accelerate first-order optimization schemes for PDE-constrained optimization problems governed by transport equations. We apply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Yunhui He , Andreas Mang

The efficient solution of discretisations of coupled systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) is at the core of much of numerical simulation. Significant effort has been expended on scalable algorithms to precondition Krylov…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Robert C. Kirby , Lawrence Mitchell

We propose a new approximate factorization for solving linear systems with symmetric positive definite sparse matrices. In a nutshell the algorithm is to apply hierarchically block Gaussian elimination and additionally compress the fill-in.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Daria A. Sushnikova , Ivan V. Oseledets

This paper presents fast solvers for linear systems arising from the discretization of fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with Riesz derivatives and attractive nonlinearities. These systems are characterized by complex symmetry,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Chao Chen , Xi Yang , Fei-Yan Zhang

GMRES is one of the most popular iterative methods for the solution of large linear systems of equations that arise from the discretization of linear well-posed problems, such as Dirichlet boundary value problems for elliptic partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Silvia Gazzola , Silvia Noschese , Paolo Novati , Lothar Reichel

PDE-constrained optimization problems with control or state constraints are challenging from an analytical as well as numerical perspective. The combination of these constraints with a sparsity-promoting $\rm L^1$ term within the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-13 John W. Pearson , Margherita Porcelli , Martin Stoll

In this work, solvers and preconditioners based on Gauss-Seidel and Jacobi algorithms are explored for stochastic Galerkin discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs) with random input data. Gauss-Seidel and Jacobi algorithms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Ramakrishna Tipireddy , Eric T. Phipps , Roger G. Ghanem

Preconditioning has long been a staple technique in optimization, often applied to reduce the condition number of a matrix and speed up the convergence of algorithms. Although there are many popular preconditioning techniques in practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Zhaonan Qu , Wenzhi Gao , Oliver Hinder , Yinyu Ye , Zhengyuan Zhou