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I consider techniques for Berger-Oliger adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) when numerically solving partial differential equations with wave-like solutions, using characteristic (double-null) grids. Such AMR algorithms are naturally recursive,…

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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…

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In this paper, we propose a unified framework of inexact stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for solving nonconvex problems subject to linear constraints, whose objective comprises an average of finite-sum smooth…

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Numerical simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) on a lattice require the frequent solution of linear systems of equations with large, sparse and typically ill-conditioned matrices. Algebraic multigrid methods are meanwhile the…

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The standard goal for an effective algebraic multigrid (AMG) algorithm is to develop relaxation and coarse-grid correction schemes that attenuate complementary error modes. In the nonsymmetric setting, coarse-grid correction $\Pi$ will…

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Anderson mixing (AM) is an acceleration method for fixed-point iterations. Despite its success and wide usage in scientific computing, the convergence theory of AM remains unclear, and its applications to machine learning problems are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Fuchao Wei , Chenglong Bao , Yang Liu

This paper proposes a Smoothing Accelerated Proximal Gradient Method with Extrapolation Term (SAPGM) for nonsmooth multiobjective optimization. By combining the smoothing methods and the accelerated algorithm for multiobjective optimization…

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Transformer-based approaches have revolutionized image super-resolution by modeling long-range dependencies. However, the quadratic computational complexity of vanilla self-attention mechanisms poses significant challenges, often leading to…

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It is known that the solution of a conservative steady-state two-sided fractional diffusion problem can exhibit singularities near the boundaries. As consequence of this, and due to the conservative nature of the problem, we adopt a finite…

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A new algorithm for solving large-scale convex optimization problems with a separable objective function is proposed. The basic idea is to combine three techniques: Lagrangian dual decomposition, excessive gap and smoothing. The main…

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Data assimilation (DA) combines partial observations with dynamical models to improve state estimation. Filter-based DA uses only past and present data and is the prerequisite for real-time forecasts. Smoother-based DA exploits both past…

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We consider convex-concave saddle-point problems where the objective functions may be split in many components, and extend recent stochastic variance reduction methods (such as SVRG or SAGA) to provide the first large-scale linearly…

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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,…

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While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully leveraged for learning on graph-structured data across domains, several potential pitfalls have been described recently. Those include the inability to accurately leverage…

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We provide a theoretical justification for the construction of adaptive composite solvers based on a sequence of AMG (algebraic multigrid) $\mu$-cycle methods that exploit error components that the current solver cannot damp efficiently.…

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The use of multigrid and related preconditioners with the finite element method is often limited by the difficulty of applying the algorithm effectively to a problem, especially when the domain has a complex shape or adaptive refinement. We…

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An inexact accelerated stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (AS-ADMM) scheme is developed for solving structured separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints. The objective function is the sum of a…

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The increasing number of flexible devices and distributed energy resources in power grids renders the coordination of transmission and distribution systems increasingly complex. In this paper, we discuss and compare two different approaches…

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In compressed sensing, the sensing matrix is assumed perfectly known. However, there exists perturbation in the sensing matrix in reality due to sensor offsets or noise disturbance. Directions-of-arrival (DoA) estimation with off-grid…

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