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This paper introduces a preconditioned method designed to comprehensively address the saddle point system with the aim of improving convergence efficiency. In the preprocessor construction phase, a technical approach for solving the…
Algorithms for studying transitions and instabilities in incompressible flows typically require the solution of linear systems with the full Jacobian matrix. Other popular approaches, like gradient-based design optimization and fully…
Symmetric linear solves are fundamental to a wide range of scientific and engineering applications, from climate modeling and structural analysis to machine learning and optimization. These workloads often rely on Cholesky (POTRF)…
Inversion of sparse matrices with standard direct solve schemes is robust, but computationally expensive. Iterative solvers, on the other hand, demonstrate better scalability; but, need to be used with an appropriate preconditioner (e.g.,…
In this paper we introduce an algebraic recursive multilevel incomplete factorization preconditioner, based on a distributed Schur complement formulation, for solving general linear systems. The novelty of the proposed method is to combine…
High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) is an effective approach for computing saddle points of a prescribed Morse index and constructing solution landscapes for complex nonlinear systems. However, for problems with ill-conditioned Hessians…
A technique for computing an ILU preconditioner based on the FAPINV algorithm is presented. We show that this algorithm is well-defined for H-matrices. Moreover, when used in conjunction with Krylov-subspace-based iterative solvers such as…
SYM-ILDL is a numerical software package that computes incomplete $LDL^{T}$ (or `ILDL') factorizations of symmetric indefinite and real skew-symmetric matrices. The core of the algorithm is a Crout variant of incomplete LU (ILU), originally…
We introduce a software package called HIFIR for preconditioning sparse, unsymmetric, ill-conditioned, and potentially singular systems. HIFIR computes a hybrid incomplete factorization, which combines multilevel incomplete LU factorization…
The incompressible Euler equations are an important model system in computational fluid dynamics. Fast high-order methods for the solution of this time-dependent system of partial differential equations are of particular interest: due to…
Although some preconditioners are available for solving dense linear systems, there are still many matrices for which preconditioners are lacking, in particular in cases where the size of the matrix $N$ becomes very large. There remains…
We introduce a parallel algorithm to construct a preconditioner for solving a large, sparse linear system where the coefficient matrix is a Laplacian matrix (a.k.a., graph Laplacian). Such a linear system arises from applications such as…
Multistep matrix splitting iterations serve as preconditioning for Krylov subspace methods for solving singular linear systems. The preconditioner is applied to the generalized minimal residual (GMRES) method and the flexible GMRES (FGMRES)…
Techniques based on $k$-th order Hodge Laplacian operators $L_k$ are widely used to describe the topology as well as the governing dynamics of high-order systems modeled as simplicial complexes. In all of them, it is required to solve a…
This paper presents a hybrid CPU-GPU framework for solving combinatorial scheduling problems formulated as Integer Linear Programming (ILP). While scheduling underpins many optimization tasks in computing systems, solving these problems…
We propose HAMSI (Hessian Approximated Multiple Subsets Iteration), which is a provably convergent, second order incremental algorithm for solving large-scale partially separable optimization problems. The algorithm is based on a local…
We introduce a new algorithm and software for solving linear equations in symmetric diagonally dominant matrices with non-positive off-diagonal entries (SDDM matrices), including Laplacian matrices. We use pre-conditioned conjugate gradient…
In this article, we propose and study a stochastic and relaxed preconditioned Douglas--Rachford splitting method to solve saddle-point problems that have separable dual variables. We prove the almost sure convergence of the iteration…
In this work, we develop a novel multilevel Tau matrix-based preconditioned method for a class of non-symmetric multilevel Toeplitz systems. This method not only accounts for but also improves upon an ideal preconditioner pioneered by [J.…