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Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is an $\mathcal{O}(n)$ solution process for many large sparse linear systems. A hierarchy of progressively coarser grids is constructed that utilize complementary relaxation and interpolation operators. High-energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Amanda Bienz , Robert D. Falgout William Gropp , Luke N. Olson , Jacob B. Schroder

Simulation of multiphase poromechanics involves solving a multi-physics problem in which multiphase flow and transport are tightly coupled with the porous medium deformation. To capture this dynamic interplay, fully implicit methods, also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Quan M. Bui , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor , Nicola Castelletto , Joshua A. White

We consider effective preconditioners for solving Laplacians of general weighted graphs. Theoretically, spectral sparsifiers (SSs) provide preconditioners of optimal computational complexity. However, they are not easy to use for real-world…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Xiaozhe Hu , Junyuan Lin

The graph partitioning problem is widely used and studied in many practical and theoretical applications. The multilevel strategies represent today one of the most effective and efficient generic frameworks for solving this problem on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-04 Ilya Safro , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Multigrid methods are well suited to large massively parallel computer architectures because they are mathematically optimal and display excellent parallelization properties. Since current architecture trends are favoring regular compute…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Victor A. Paludetto Magri , Robert D. Falgout , Ulrike M. Yang

Gaussian process hyperparameter optimization requires linear solves with, and log-determinants of, large kernel matrices. Iterative numerical techniques are becoming popular to scale to larger datasets, relying on the conjugate gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jonathan Wenger , Geoff Pleiss , Philipp Hennig , John P. Cunningham , Jacob R. Gardner

We present a novel deep learning-based algorithm to accelerate - through the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) - the convergence of Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods for the iterative solution of the linear systems of equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Paola F. Antonietti , Matteo Caldana , Luca Dede'

In this article a new family of preconditioners is introduced for symmetric positive definite linear systems. The new preconditioners, called the AWG preconditioners (for Algebraic-Woodbury-GenEO) are constructed algebraically. By this, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Loïc Gouarin , Nicole Spillane

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) preconditioners are considered for discretized systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) where unknowns associated with different physical quantities are not necessarily co-located at mesh points.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Andrey Prokopenko , Raymond S. Tuminaro

This paper describes a massively parallel algebraic multigrid method based on non-smoothed aggregation. It is especially suited for solving heterogeneous elliptic problems as it uses a greedy heuristic algorithm for the aggregation that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Markus Blatt , Olaf Ippisch , Peter Bastian

We show how a scalable preconditioner for the primal discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method can be developed using existing algebraic multigrid (AMG) preconditioning techniques. The stability of the DPG method gives a norm equivalence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Andrew T. Barker , Veselin Dobrev , Jay Gopalakrishnan , Tzanio Kolev

We study an element agglomeration coarsening strategy that requires data redistribution at coarse levels when the number of coarse elements becomes smaller than the used computational units (cores). The overall procedure generates coarse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Hillary R. Fairbanks , Delyan Z. Kalchev , Chak Shing Lee , Panayot S. Vassilevski

Most efficient linear solvers use composable algorithmic components, with the most common model being the combination of a Krylov accelerator and one or more preconditioners. A similar set of concepts may be used for nonlinear algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Peter R. Brune , Matthew G. Knepley , Barry F. Smith , Xuemin Tu

We construct an algebraic multigrid (AMG) based preconditioner for the reduced Hessian of a linear-quadratic optimization problem constrained by an elliptic partial differential equation. While the preconditioner generalizes a geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Andrew T. Barker , Andrei Draganescu

This paper presents the use of element-based algebraic multigrid (AMGe) hierarchies, implemented in the ParELAG (Parallel Element Agglomeration Algebraic Multigrid Upscaling and Solvers) library, to produce multilevel preconditioners and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Delyan Z. Kalchev , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Umberto Villa

The solution of linear systems of equations is a central task in a number of scientific and engineering applications. In many cases the solution of linear systems may take most of the simulation time thus representing a major bottleneck in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Giovanni Isotton , Carlo Janna , Massimo Bernaschi

The efficient solution of sparse, linear systems resulting from the discretization of partial differential equations is crucial to the performance of many physics-based simulations. The algorithmic optimality of multilevel approaches for…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Andrew Reisner , Luke N. Olson , J. David Moulton

The paper presents AMGCL -- an opensource C++ library implementing the algebraic multigrid method (AMG) for solution of large sparse linear systems of equations, usually arising from discretization of partial differential equations on an…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Denis Demidov

We present a robust and scalable preconditioner for the solution of large-scale linear systems that arise from the discretization of elliptic PDEs amenable to rank compression. The preconditioner is based on hierarchical low-rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Gustavo Chávez , George Turkiyyah , Stefano Zampini , David Keyes

This paper is to give an overview of AMG methods for solving large scale systems of equations such as those from the discretization of partial differential equations. AMG is often understood as the acronym of "Algebraic Multi-Grid", but it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Jinchao Xu , Ludmil T Zikatanov