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In recent years, half precision floating-point arithmetic has gained wide support in hardware and software stack thanks to the advance of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Operating at half precision can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Longfei Gao , Kevin Harms

In this paper, we develop a general approach for probabilistic estimation and optimization. An explicit formula and a computational approach are established for controlling the reliability of probabilistic estimation based on a mixed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Xinjia Chen

The goals of this paper are to obtain theoretical models of what happens when a computer calculates the rotation set of a homeomorphism, and to find a good algorithm to perform simulations of this rotation set. To do that we introduce the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Pierre-Antoine Guiheneuf

An improvement on precision of recursive function simulation in IEEE floating point standard is presented. It is shown that the average of rounding towards negative infinite and rounding towards positive infinite yields a better result than…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-05 Melanie R. Silva , Erivelton G. Nepomuceno , Samir A. M. Martins

Stochastic rounding (SR) is a probabilistic rounding mode that mitigates errors in large-scale numerical computations, especially when prone to stagnation effects. Beyond numerical analysis, SR has shown significant benefits in practical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 El-Mehdi El Arar , Massimiliano Fasi , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Mantas Mikaitis

Large-scale numerical computations make increasing use of low-precision (LP) floating point formats and mixed precision arithmetic, which can be enhanced by the technique of stochastic rounding (SR), that is, rounding an intermediate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Andrew Fitzgibbon , Stephen Felix

It is well known that the computation of accurate trajectories of the Lorenz system is a difficult problem. Computed solutions are very sensitive to the discretization error determined by the time step size and polynomial order of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Benjamin Kehlet , Anders Logg

Randomized smoothing is sound when using infinite precision. However, we show that randomized smoothing is no longer sound for limited floating-point precision. We present a simple example where randomized smoothing certifies a radius of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Václav Voráček , Matthias Hein

Randomized algorithms, such as randomized sketching or stochastic optimization, are a promising approach to ease the computational burden in analyzing large datasets. However, randomized algorithms also produce non-deterministic outputs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-13 Zhixiang Zhang , Sokbae Lee , Edgar Dobriban

Mixed-precision computations are a hallmark of the current stage of AI, driving the progress in large language models towards efficient, locally deployable solutions. This article addresses the floating-point computation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Stanislav Budzinskiy , Marian Gloser , Tolunay Yilmaz , Ying Hong Tham , Yuanyi Lin , Wenyi Fang , Fan Wu , Philipp Petersen

Elementary function calls are a common feature in numerical programs. While their implementions in library functions are highly optimized, their computation is nonetheless very expensive compared to plain arithmetic. Full accuracy is,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Eva Darulova , Anastasia Volkova

Round-off errors arising from the difference between real numbers and their floating-point representation cause the control flow of conditional floating-point statements to deviate from the ideal flow of the real-number computation. This…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Laura Titolo , Cesar A. Muñoz , Marco A. Feliu , Mariano M. Moscato

Stochastic rounding (SR) is a probabilistic method used to round numbers to floating-point and fixed-point representations. In length $n$ summation, the worst-case error of SR grows as $\sqrt{n}$ with high probability, unlike for standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 El-Mehdi El Arar , Massimiliano Fasi , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Mantas Mikaitis

The estimation of the probability of rare events is an important task in reliability and risk assessment. We consider failure events that are expressed in terms of a limit-state function, which depends on the solution of a partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Fabian Wagner , Jonas Latz , Iason Papaioannou , Elisabeth Ullmann

Probabilistic variants of Model Order Reduction (MOR) methods have recently emerged for improving stability and computational performance of classical approaches. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic Reduced Basis Method (RBM) for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Marie Billaud-Friess , Arthur Macherey , Anthony Nouy , Clémentine Prieur

We examine numerical rounding errors of some deterministic solvers for systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We show that the accumulation of rounding errors results in a solution that is inherently random and we obtain the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-13 Sebastian Mosbach , Amanda G. Turner

The classical approach to system identification is based on stochastic assumptions about the measurement error, and provides estimates that have random nature. Worst-case identification, on the other hand, only assumes the knowledge of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Fabrizio Dabbene , Mario Sznaier , Roberto Tempo

We study a probabilistic numerical method for the solution of both boundary and initial value problems that returns a joint Gaussian process posterior over the solution. Such methods have concrete value in the statistics on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-13 Philipp Hennig , Søren Hauberg

The reduced basis method is a model reduction technique yielding substantial savings of computational time when a solution to a parametrized equation has to be computed for many values of the parameter. Certification of the approximation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Fabien Casenave , Alexandre Ern , Tony Lelièvre

Significant inaccuracy often occurs during the process of mathematical calculation due to the digit limitation of floating point, which may lead to catastrophic loss. Normally, people believe that adjustment of floating-point precision is…

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