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We develop a new meshfree geometric multilevel (MGM) method for solving linear systems that arise from discretizing elliptic PDEs on surfaces represented by point clouds. The method uses a Poisson disk sampling-type technique for coarsening…

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We present a multi-level graph partitioning algorithm using novel local improvement algorithms and global search strategies transferred from the multi-grid community. Local improvement algorithms are based max-flow min-cut computations and…

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Multilayer graphs are appealing mathematical tools for modeling multiple types of relationship in the data. In this paper, we aim at analyzing multilayer graphs by properly combining the information provided by individual layers, while…

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We consider the problem of solving a family of parametric mixed-integer linear optimization problems where some entries in the input data change. We introduce the concept of cutting-plane layer (CPL), i.e., a differentiable cutting-plane…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Gabriele Dragotto , Stefan Clarke , Jaime Fernández Fisac , Bartolomeo Stellato

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can simulate large molecular complexes over extended timescales by reducing degrees of freedom. A critical step in CG modeling is the selection of the CG mapping algorithm, which…

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The scalable solution of large sparse linear systems is a bottleneck in scientific computing and graph analysis. While algebraic multigrid (AMG) offers optimal linear scaling, its performance is severely constrained by the trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yali Fink , Ido Ben-Yair , Lars Ruthotto , Eran Treister

Although multigrid is asymptotically optimal for solving many important partial differential equations, its efficiency relies heavily on the careful selection of the individual algorithmic components. In contrast to recent approaches that…

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With the hardware support for half-precision arithmetic on NVIDIA V100 GPUs, high-performance computing applications can benefit from lower precision at appropriate spots to speed up the overall execution time. In this paper, we investigate…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Kyaw L. Oo , Andreas Vogel

Due to the wide range of timescales that are present in macromolecular systems, hierarchical multiscale strategies are necessary for their computational study. Coarse-graining (CG) allows to establish a link between different system…

Many applications produce massive complex networks whose analysis would benefit from parallel processing. Parallel algorithms, in turn, often require a suitable network partition. For solving optimization tasks such as graph partitioning on…

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Bilevel learning refers to machine learning problems that can be formulated as bilevel optimization models, where decisions are organized in a hierarchical structure. This paradigm has recently gained considerable attention in machine…

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In this work we propose a hierarchy of Monte Carlo methods for sampling equilibrium properties of stochastic lattice systems with competing short and long range interactions. Each Monte Carlo step is composed by two or more sub - steps…

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We focus on the study of multigrid methods with aggressive coarsening and polynomial smoothers for the solution of the linear systems corresponding to finite difference/element discretizations of the Laplace equation. Using local Fourier…

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We describe main issues and design principles of an efficient implementation, tailored to recent generations of Nvidia Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), of an Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) preconditioner previously proposed by one of the…

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By a high-order numerical homogenization method, a heterogeneous multiscale scheme was developed in Jin & Li (2022) for evolving differential equations containing two time scales. In this paper, we further explore the technique to propose…

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Computing at the exascale level is expected to be affected by a significantly higher rate of faults, due to increased component counts as well as power considerations. Therefore, current day numerical algorithms need to be reexamined as to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

Algebraic multigrid is an iterative method that is often optimal for solving the matrix equations that arise in a wide variety of applications, including discretized partial differential equations. It automatically constructs a sequence of…

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A cascadic multigrid method is proposed for the GPE problem based on the multilevel correction scheme. With this new scheme, the ground state eigenvalue problem on the finest space can be solved by smoothing steps on a series of multilevel…

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Current AMR simulations require algorithms that are highly parallelized and manage memory efficiently. As compute engines grow larger, AMR simulations will require algorithms that achieve new levels of efficient parallelization and memory…

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