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The bootstrap algebraic multigrid framework allows for the adaptive construction of algebraic multigrid methods in situations where geometric multigrid methods are not known or not available at all. While there has been some work on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Karsten Kahl , Matthias Rottmann

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods are among the most efficient solvers for linear systems of equations and they are widely used for the solution of problems stemming from the discretization of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The most…

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

Multi-level numerical methods that obtain the exact solution of a linear system are presented. The methods are devised by combining ideas from the full multi-grid algorithm and perfect reconstruction filters. The problem is stated as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Pablo Navarrete Michelini

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'

The present work develops hybrid multigrid methods for high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Fast matrix-free operator evaluation on tensor product elements is used to devise a computationally efficient PDE…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

We design and analyze an iterative two-grid algorithm for the finite element discretizations of strongly nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems in this paper. We propose an iterative two-grid algorithm, in which a nonlinear problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Jiajun Zhan , Lei Yang , Xiaoqing Xing , Liuqiang Zhong

Multigrid modeling algorithms are a technique used to accelerate relaxation models running on a hierarchy of similar graphlike structures. We introduce and demonstrate a new method for training neural networks which uses multilevel methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 C. B. Scott , Eric Mjolsness

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

Multilevel optimization has gained renewed interest in machine learning due to its promise in applications such as hyperparameter tuning and continual learning. However, existing methods struggle with the inherent difficulty of efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yuntian Gu , Xuzheng Chen

Due to the high computational load of modern numerical simulation, there is a demand for approaches that would reduce the size of discrete problems while keeping the accuracy reasonable. In this work, we present an original algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Sergei Shumilin , Alexander Ryabov , Nikolay Yavich , Evgeny Burnaev , Vladimir Vanovskiy

Automatic segmentation of an image to identify all meaningful parts is one of the most challenging as well as useful tasks in a number of application areas. This is widely studied. Selective segmentation, less studied, aims to use limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Michael Roberts , Ke Chen , Klaus L. Irion

This paper addresses matrix approximation problems for matrices that are large, sparse and/or that are representations of large graphs. To tackle these problems, we consider algorithms that are based primarily on coarsening techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Shashanka Ubaru , Yousef Saad

We study a two-stage mixed-integer linear program (MILP) with more than 1 million binary variables in the second stage. We develop a two-level approach by constructing a semi-coarse model (coarsened with respect to variables) and a coarse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Fu Lin , Sven Leyffer , Todd Munson

We develop multilevel methods for interface-driven multiphysics problems that can be coupled across dimensions and where complexity and strength of the interface coupling deteriorates the performance of standard methods. We focus on solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Ana Budisa , Xiaozhe Hu , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov

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

We propose a data-driven and machine-learning-based approach to compute non-Galerkin coarse-grid operators in algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods, addressing the well-known issue of increasing operator complexity. Guided by the AMG theory on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Ru Huang , Kai Chang , Huan He , Ruipeng Li , Yuanzhe Xi

In this work, several multilevel decoupled algorithms are proposed for a mixed Navier-Stokes/Darcy model. These algorithms are based on either successively or parallelly solving two linear subdomain problems after solving a coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Mingchao Cai , Peiqi Huang , Mo Mu

In this paper, we discuss the convergence of an Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) method for general symmetric positive-definite matrices. The method relies on an aggregation algorithm, named \emph{coarsening based on compatible weighted matching},…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone , Ludmil Zikatanov

A novel multi-level method for partial differential equations with uncertain parameters is proposed. The principle behind the method is that the error between grid levels in multi-level methods has a spatial structure that is by good…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Yous van Halder , Benjamin Sanderse , Barry Koren

Hypergraph partitioning is an NP-hard problem that occurs in many computer science applications where it is necessary to reduce large problems into a number of smaller, computationally tractable sub-problems. Current techniques use a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Richard J. Preen , Jim Smith