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We analyze the conjugate gradient (CG) method with variable preconditioning for solving a linear system with a real symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix of coefficients $A$. We assume that the preconditioner is SPD on each step, and…

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The use of the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method for computing the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimator of the General Linear Model (GLM) is considered. The GLS estimator is expressed in terms of the solution of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Paolo Foschi

Preconditioning techniques are crucial for enhancing the efficiency of solving large-scale linear equation systems that arise from partial differential equation (PDE) discretization. These techniques, such as Incomplete Cholesky…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Rui Li , Song Wang , Chen Wang

We consider the preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCG) with optimal preconditioner in the frame of the boundary element method (BEM) for elliptic first-kind integral equations. Our adaptive algorithm steers the termination of PCG as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Thomas Führer , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius , Stefan Schimanko

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) still is the workhorse for many practical problems. However, it converges slow, and can be difficult to tune. It is possible to precondition SGD to accelerate its convergence remarkably. But many attempts…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-23 Xi-Lin Li

An interior point method for the structural topology optimization is proposed. The linear systems arising in the method are solved by the conjugate gradient method preconditioned by geometric multigrid. The resulting method is then compared…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Michal Kocvara , Sudaba Mohammed

The observed and expected continued growth in the number of nodes in large-scale parallel computers gives rise to two major challenges: global communication operations are becoming major bottlenecks due to their limited scalability, and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Markus Levonyak , Christina Pacher , Wilfried N. Gansterer

The Legendre spectral Galerkin method of self-adjoint second order elliptic equations usually results in a linear system with a dense and ill-conditioned coefficient matrix. In this paper, the linear system is solved by a preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Xuhao Diao , Jun Hu , Suna Ma

At the heart of Newton based optimization methods is a sequence of symmetric linear systems. Each consecutive system in this sequence is similar to the next, so solving them separately is a waste of computational effort. Here we describe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Robert Mansel Gower , Jacek Gondzio

In this article we present a new multigrid preconditioner for the linear systems arising in the semismooth Newton method solution of certain control-constrained, quadratic distributed optimal control problems. Using a piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Andrei Draganescu , Jyoti Saraswat

This paper proposes a generalization of the conjugate gradient (CG) method used to solve the equation $Ax=b$ for a symmetric positive definite matrix $A$ of large size $n$. The generalization consists of permitting the scalar control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Amit Bhaya , Pierre-Alexandre Bliman , Guilherme Niedu , Fernando Pazos

The mechanical properties of periodic microstructures are pivotal in various engineering applications. Homogenization theory is a powerful tool for predicting these properties by averaging the behavior of complex microstructures over a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Yu Xing , Yang Liu , Lipeng Chen , Huiping Tang , Lin Lu

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

In this chapter, we investigate recently proposed nonlinear conjugate gradient (NCG) methods for shape optimization problems. We briefly introduce the methods as well as the corresponding theoretical background and investigate their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth

We propose a new deflation strategy to accelerate the convergence of the preconditioned conjugate gradient(PCG) method for solving parametric large-scale linear systems of equations. Unlike traditional deflation techniques that rely on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Alena Kopaničáková , Youngkyu Lee , George Em Karniadakis

In this paper, we consider a Model Predictive Control (MPC) problem of a continuous-time linear time-invariant system subject to continuous-time path constraints on the states and the inputs. By leveraging the concept of differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Zishuo Li , Bo Yang , Jiayun Li , Jiaqi Yan , Yilin Mo

The conjugate gradient method (CG) is typically used with a preconditioner which improves efficiency and robustness of the method. Many preconditioners include parameters and a proper choice of a preconditioner and its parameters is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Alexandr Katrutsa , Mike Botchev , George Ovchinnikov , Ivan Oseledets

The linear conjugate gradient method is widely used in physical simulation, particularly for solving large-scale linear systems derived from Newton's method. The nonlinear conjugate gradient method generalizes the conjugate gradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Xing Shen , Runyuan Cai , Mengxiao Bi , Tangjie Lv

This paper describes a method for solving smooth nonconvex minimization problems subject to bound constraints with good worst-case complexity guarantees and practical performance. The method contains elements of two existing methods: the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Yue Xie , Stephen J. Wright

Pathological gait analysis is constrained by limited and variable clinical datasets, which restrict the modeling of diverse gait impairments. To address this challenge, we propose a Pathological Gait-conditioned Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mritula Chandrasekaran , Sanket Kachole , Jarek Francik , Dimitrios Makris