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Iterative methods for solving large sparse systems of linear equations are widely used in many HPC applications. Extreme scaling of these methods can be difficult, however, since global communication to form dot products is typically…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Nick Brown , J. Mark Bull , Iain Bethune

This article introduces a general purpose framework and software to approximate partial differential equations (PDEs). The sparsity patterns of finite element discretized operators is identified automatically using the tools from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Kiefer Green , Harbir Antil

A multiscale optimization framework for problems over a space of Lipschitz continuous functions is developed. The method solves a coarse-grid discretization followed by linear interpolation to warm-start project gradient descent on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nicholas J. E. Richardson , Noah Marusenko , Michael P. Friedlander

This work develops a framework to create meshes with user-specified homology from potentially dirty geometry by coupling background grids, persistent homology, and a generalization of volume fractions. For a mesh with fixed grid size, the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Brian Shawcroft , Kendrick M. Shepherd , Scott Mitchell

Vertical decomposition is a widely used general technique for decomposing the cells of arrangements of semi-algebraic sets in ${{\mathbb R}}^d$ into constant-complexity subcells. In this paper, we settle in the affirmative a few…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Esther Ezra , Micha Sharir

This paper is concerned with the construction of graded meshes for approximating so-called singular solutions of elliptic boundary value problems by means of multipatch discontinuous Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis schemes. Such solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Ulrich Langer , Angelos Mantzaflaris , Stephen E. Moore , Ioannis Toulopoulos

The Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) problem presents formidable computational challenges due to its combinatorial complexity, large-scale network dimensions, and numerous security constraints. While conventional temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Jinxin Xiong , Linxin Yang , Yingxiao Wang , Yanting Huang , Jianghua Wu , Shunbo Lei , Akang Wang

The first step towards applying isogeometric analysis techniques to solve PDE problems on a given domain consists in generating an analysis-suitable mapping operator between parametric and physical domains with one or several patches from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Jochen Hinz , Matthias Möller , Cornelis Vuik

We describe a simple and effective algorithm for solving Poisson's equation in the context of self-gravity within the DISPATCH astrophysical fluid framework. The algorithm leverages the fact that DISPATCH stores multiple time slices and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 J. P. Ramsey , T. Haugbølle , Å. Nordlund

We propose some multigrid methods for solving the algebraic systems resulting from finite element approximations of space fractional partial differential equations (SFPDEs). It is shown that our multigrid methods are optimal, which means…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Yingjun Jiang , Xuejun Xu

This article describes a geometric partitioning software that can be used for quick computation of data partitions on many-core HPC machines. It is most suited for dynamic applications with load distributions that vary with time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aparna Sasidharan

Many problems in computational science and engineering involve partial differential equations and thus require the numerical solution of large, sparse (non)linear systems of equations. Multigrid is known to be one of the most efficient…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Harald Koestler , Christian Schmitt , Sebastian Kuckuk , Frank Hannig , Juergen Teich , Ulrich Ruede

Joint object matching, also known as multi-image matching, namely, the problem of finding consistent partial maps among all pairs of objects within a collection, is a crucial task in many areas of computer vision. This problem subsumes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Antonio De Rosa , Aida Khajavirad

We develop multilevel methods for interface-driven multiphysics problems that can be coupled across dimensions and where complexity and strength of the interface coupling deteriorates the performance of standard methods. We focus on solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Ana Budisa , Xiaozhe Hu , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov

The multiway-cut problem is, given a weighted graph and k >= 2 terminal nodes, to find a minimum-weight set of edges whose removal separates all the terminals. The problem is NP-hard, and even NP-hard to approximate within 1+delta for some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 David Karger , Phil Klein , Cliff Stein , Mikkel Thorup , Neal E. Young

Decomposition techniques for linear programming are difficult to extend to conic optimization problems with general non-polyhedral convex cones because the conic inequalities introduce an additional nonlinear coupling between the variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Yifan Sun , Martin S. Andersen , Lieven Vandenberghe

We propose the first optimal geometric multigrid solver for hybrid high-order discretizations that can handle arbitrary polytopal agglomeration hierarchies in both two and three dimensions. The key ingredient is the use of modified skeleton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Santiago Badia , Jordi Manyer

We study the maximization of sums of heterogeneous quadratic forms over the Stiefel manifold, a nonconvex problem that arises in several modern signal processing and machine learning applications such as heteroscedastic probabilistic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Kyle Gilman , Sam Burer , Laura Balzano

In this work, we propose a robust and easily implemented algebraic multigrid method as a stand-alone solver or a preconditioner in Krylov subspace methods for solving either symmetric and positive definite or saddle point linear systems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Huidong Yang

This paper introduces an abstract framework for randomized subspace correction methods for convex optimization, which unifies and generalizes a broad class of existing algorithms, including domain decomposition, multigrid, and block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Boou Jiang , Jongho Park , Jinchao Xu