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This paper introduces bucket calculus, a novel mathematical framework that fundamentally transforms the computational complexity landscape of parallel machine scheduling optimization. We address the strongly NP-hard problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Noor Islam S. Mohammad

A tight lower bound for required I/O when computing an ordinary matrix-matrix multiplication on a processor with two layers of memory is established. Prior work obtained weaker lower bounds by reasoning about the number of segments needed…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Tyler Michael Smith , Bradley Lowery , Julien Langou , Robert A. van de Geijn

The Simplex tableau has been broadly used and investigated in the industry and academia. With the advent of the big data era, ever larger problems are posed to be solved in ever larger machines whose architecture type did not exist in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Demetrios Coutinho , Felipe O. Lins e Silva , Daniel Aloise , Samuel , Xavier-de-Souza

The problem of achieving a good trade-off in Stochastic Model Predictive Control between the competing goals of improving the average performance and reducing conservativeness, while still guaranteeing recursive feasibility and low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Matthias Lorenzen , Frank Allgöwer , Fabrizio Dabbene , Roberto Tempo

Reinforcement learning (RL) in large environments often suffers from severe computational bottlenecks, as conventional regret minimization algorithms require repeated, costly calls to planning and statistical estimation oracles. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Haichen Hu , Jian Qian , David Simchi-Levi

Compactly expressing large-scale datasets through Multivariate Functional Approximations (MFA) can be critically important for analysis and visualization to drive scientific discovery. Tackling such problems requires scalable data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Vijay S. Mahadevan , David Lenz , Iulian Grindeanu , Thomas Peterka

Real-time systems (RTSs) are at the heart of numerous safety-critical applications. An RTS typically consists of a set of real-time tasks (the software) that execute on a multicore shared-memory platform (the hardware) following a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mohammed Aristide Foughali , Marius Mikučionis , Maryline Zhang

We present a parallel scan (prefix sum) algorithm in the Tensor Core Unit (TCU) model of computation. The TCU model assumes that multiplication between two square matrices of constant size $s$ is a basic operation. In the $(s^2, \ell)$-TCU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Anastasios Zouzias , William F. McColl

We present a novel parallelisation scheme that simplifies the adaptation of learning algorithms to growing amounts of data as well as growing needs for accurate and confident predictions in critical applications. In contrast to other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Michael Kamp , Mario Boley , Olana Missura , Thomas Gärtner

The interplay of quantum and classical simulation and the delicate divide between them is in the focus of massively parallelized tensor network state (TNS) algorithms designed for high performance computing (HPC). In this contribution, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Andor Menczer , Örs Legeza

A parallel algorithm has perfect strong scaling if its running time on P processors is linear in 1/P, including all communication costs. Distributed-memory parallel algorithms for matrix multiplication with perfect strong scaling have only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Grey Ballard , James Demmel , Olga Holtz , Benjamin Lipshitz , Oded Schwartz

Superposition, the ability of neural networks to represent more features than neurons, is increasingly seen as key to the efficiency of large models. This paper investigates the theoretical foundations of computing in superposition,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Micah Adler , Nir Shavit

Nested parallelism exists in scientific codes that are searching multi-dimensional spaces. However, implementations of nested parallelism often have overhead and load balance issues. The Orbital Analysis code we present exhibits a sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Benjamin James Gaska , Neha Jothi , Mahdi Soltan Mohammadi , Kat Volk , Michelle Mills Strout

The ability to learn new tasks and generalize performance to others is one of the most remarkable characteristics of the human brain and of recent AI systems. The ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously is also a signature…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-11 Giovanni Petri , Sebastian Musslick , Biswadip Dey , Kayhan Ozcimder , David Turner , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Theodore Willke , Jonathan D. Cohen

The multi-resolution approximation (MRA) of Gaussian processes was recently proposed to conduct likelihood-based inference for massive spatial data sets. An advantage of the methodology is that it can be parallelized. We implemented the MRA…

Computation · Statistics 2019-05-07 Huang Huang , Lewis R. Blake , Dorit M. Hammerling

In view of the tremendous computing power jump of modern RISC processors the interest in parallel computing seems to be thinning out. Why use a complicated system of parallel processors, if the problem can be solved by a single powerful…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 G. Odor , F. Rohrbach , G. Vesztergombi , G. Varga , F. Tatrai

Sorting is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Playing a role in many processes, it has a lower complexity bound imposed by $\mathcal{O}(n\log{n})$ when executing on a sequential machine. This limit can be brought down to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Daniel Bascones , Borja Morcillo

The growth in the use of computationally intensive statistical procedures, especially with Big Data, has necessitated the usage of parallel computation on diverse platforms such as multicore, GPU, clusters and clouds. However, slowdown due…

Computation · Statistics 2014-09-23 Norman Matloff

We present a novel class of methods to compute functions of matrices or their action on vectors that are suitable for parallel programming. Solving appropriate simple linear systems of equations in parallel (or computing the inverse of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Sergio Blanes

Recently, the makespan-minimization problem of compiling a general class of quantum algorithms into near-term quantum processors has been introduced to the AI community. The research demonstrated that temporal planning is a strong approach…