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In this paper we solve mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) via distributed asynchronous saddle point computation. This work is motivated by the MILPs being able to model problems in multi-agent autonomy, such as task assignment problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Luke Fina , Christopher Petersen , Matthew Hale

This paper introduces the Multiple Greedy Quasi-Newton (MGSR1-SP) method, a novel approach to solving strongly-convex-strongly-concave (SCSC) saddle point problems. Our method enhances the approximation of the squared indefinite Hessian…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Minheng Xiao , Zhizhong Wu

The computation of stationary distributions of Markov chains is an important task in the simulation of stochastic models. The linear systems arising in such applications involve non-symmetric M-matrices, making algebraic multigrid methods a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-18 James Brannick , Karsten Kahl , Sonja Sokolovic

Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods are often robust and effective solvers for solving the large and sparse linear systems that arise from discretized PDEs and other problems, relying on heuristic graph algorithms to achieve their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Tareq Zaman , Nicolas Nytko , Ali Taghibakhshi , Scott MacLachlan , Luke Olson , Matthew West

We present an efficient, robust and fully GPU-accelerated aggregation-based algebraic multigrid preconditioning technique for the solution of large sparse linear systems. These linear systems arise from the discretization of elliptic PDEs.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Rajesh Gandham , Ken Esler , Yongpeng Zhang

Automatic segmentation of an image to identify all meaningful parts is one of the most challenging as well as useful tasks in a number of application areas. This is widely studied. Selective segmentation, less studied, aims to use limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Michael Roberts , Ke Chen , Klaus L. Irion

This paper introduces a novel geometric multigrid solver for unstructured curved surfaces. Multigrid methods are highly efficient iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations. Despite the success in solving problems defined on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Jiayi Eris Zhang , Mirela Ben-Chen , Alec Jacobson

A fast multigrid solver is presented for high-order accurate Stokes problems discretised by local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods. The multigrid algorithm consists of a simple V-cycle, using an element-wise block Gauss-Seidel smoother.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Robert Saye

We propose a robust, adaptive coarse-grid correction scheme for matrix-free geometric multigrid targeting PDEs with strongly varying coefficients. The method combines uniform geometric coarsening of the underlying grid with heterogeneous…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Fabian Böhm , Nils Kohl , Harald Köstler , Ulrich Rüde

This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Chak Shing Lee , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Joshua White

We introduce a novel monolithic formulation that employs Lagrange multipliers (LMs) to couple a fluid flow governed by the time-dependent Stokes equations with a poroelastic structure described by the Biot equations. The formulation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Amy de Castro , Hyesuk Lee

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

The Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) trades some part of the burden of body-fitted meshing for increased algebraic complexity. While the resulting linear systems retain the standard $\mathcal{O}(h^{-2})$ conditioning of second-order operators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Michał Wichrowski , Ajay Ajith

Gradient-based optimization methods are the most popular choice for finding local optima for classical minimization and saddle point problems. Here, we highlight a systemic issue of gradient dynamics that arise for saddle point problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Leonard Adolphs , Hadi Daneshmand , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

This paper is to introduce a type of full multigrid method for the nonlinear eigenvalue problem. The main idea is to transform the solution of nonlinear eigenvalue problem into a series of solutions of the corresponding linear boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Shanghui Jia , Hehu Xie , Manting Xie , Fei Xu

This paper discusses our recent generalized optimal algebraic multigrid (AMG) convergence theory applied to the steady-state Stokes equations discretized using Taylor-Hood elements ($\pmb{ \mathbb{P}}_2/\mathbb{P}_{1}$). The generalized…

The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method is one of the most popular algorithms for solving saddle point problems. However, when applying the PDHG method and its many variants to some real-world models commonly encountered in signal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jintao Yu , Hongjin He

We propose a data-driven and machine-learning-based approach to compute non-Galerkin coarse-grid operators in algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods, addressing the well-known issue of increasing operator complexity. Guided by the AMG theory on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Ru Huang , Kai Chang , Huan He , Ruipeng Li , Yuanzhe Xi

In this paper we examine iterative methods for solving the forward ($A{\bf x}={\bf b}$) and adjoint ($A^{T}{\bf y}={\bf g}$) systems of linear equations used to approximate the scattering amplitude, defined by ${\bf g}^{T}{\bf x}={\bf…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Amber S. Robertson , James V. Lambers

Overlapping block smoothers efficiently damp the error contributions from highly oscillatory components within multigrid methods for the Stokes equations but they are computationally expensive. This paper is concentrated on the development…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Lisa Claus , Matthias Bolten