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A structured preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) solver is developed for the Newton steps in second-order methods for a class of constrained network optimal control problems. Of specific interest are problems with discrete-time dynamics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Armaghan Zafar , Michael Cantoni , Farhad Farokhi

The hierarchical interpolative factorization (HIF) offers an efficient way for solving or preconditioning elliptic partial differential equations. By exploiting locality and low-rank properties of the operators, the HIF achieves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Yingzhou Li , Lexing Ying

When solving linear systems arising from PDE discretizations, iterative methods (such as Conjugate Gradient, GMRES, or MINRES) are often the only practical choice. To converge in a small number of iterations, however, they have to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Bazyli Klockiewicz , Eric Darve

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 investigates using the conjugate gradient iterative solver for ill-posed problems. We show that preconditioner and Tikhonov-regularization work in conjunction. In particular when they employ the same symmetric positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Ahmed Chabib , Jean-Francois Witz , Vincent Magnier , Pierre Gosselet

The solution of systems of linear(ized) equations lies at the heart of many problems in Scientific Computing. In particular for systems of large dimension, iterative methods are a primary approach. Stationary iterative methods are generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Andy Wathen

There has been a growing interest in parallel strategies for solving trajectory optimization problems. One key step in many algorithmic approaches to trajectory optimization is the solution of moderately-large and sparse linear systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Xueyi Bu , Brian Plancher

Despite hundreds of papers on preconditioned linear systems of equations, there remains a significant lack of comprehensive performance benchmarks comparing various preconditioners for solving symmetric positive definite (SPD) systems. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Marc A. Tunnell , David F. Gleich

This paper presents a general method for applying hierarchical matrix skeletonization factorizations to the numerical solution of boundary integral equations with possibly rank-deficient integral operators. Rank-deficient operators arise in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-08 John Paul Ryan , Anil Damle

We present a fast direct algorithm for computing symmetric factorizations, i.e. $A = WW^T$, of symmetric positive-definite hierarchical matrices with weak-admissibility conditions. The computational cost for the symmetric factorization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Sivaram Ambikasaran , Michael O'Neil , Karan Raj Singh

This work considers the iterative solution of large-scale problems subject to non-symmetric matrices or operators arising in discretizations of (port-)Hamiltonian partial differential equations. We consider problems governed by an operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Volker Mehrmann , Manuel Schaller , Martin Stoll

We introduce a new strategy for coupling the parallel in time (parareal) iterative methodology with multiscale integrators. Following the parareal framework, the algorithm computes a low-cost approximation of all slow variables in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Gil Ariel , Seong Jun Kim , Richard Tsai

The increasing size of transformer-based models in NLP makes the question of compressing them important. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of factorization based model compression techniques. Specifically, we focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ashim Gupta , Sina Mahdipour Saravani , P. Sadayappan , Vivek Srikumar

We present a fast direct solver for structured linear systems based on multilevel matrix compression. Using the recently developed interpolative decomposition of a low-rank matrix in a recursive manner, we embed an approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Kenneth L. Ho , Leslie Greengard

We consider the numerical solution of time-dependent space tempered fractional diffusion equations. The use of Crank-Nicolson in time and of second-order accurate tempered weighted and shifted Gr\"unwald difference in space leads to dense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-12 D. Ahmad , M. Donatelli , M. Mazza , S. Serra-Capizzano , K. Trotti

For the solution of discrete ill-posed problems, in this paper a novel preconditioned iterative method based on the Arnoldi algorithm for matrix functions is presented. The method is also extended to work in connection with Tikhonov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Paolo Novati , Michela Redivo-Zaglia , Maria Rosaria Russo

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.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Hadi Pouransari , Pieter Coulier , Eric Darve

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Yiming Bu , Bruno Carpentieri , Zhaoli Shen , Tingzhu Huang

While preconditioning is a long-standing concept to accelerate iterative methods for linear systems, generalizations to matrix functions are still in their infancy. We go a further step in this direction, introducing polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Andreas Frommer , Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo , Marcel Schweitzer , Manuel Tsolakis

Incomplete factorizations have long been popular general-purpose algebraic preconditioners for solving large sparse linear systems of equations. Guaranteeing the factorization is breakdown free while computing a high quality preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma