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In earlier work we have studied a method for discretization in time of a parabolic problem which consists in representing the exact solution as an integral in the complex plane and then applying a quadrature formula to this integral. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-02 William McLean , Vidar Thomée

Preconditioning is at the core of modern many-fermion Monte Carlo algorithms, such as Hybrid Monte Carlo, where the repeated solution of a linear problem involving an ill-conditioned matrix is needed. We report on a performance comparison…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-08-24 Timour Ten , Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde

An adapted deflation preconditioner is employed to accelerate the solution of linear systems resulting from the discretization of fracture mechanics problems with well-conditioned extended/generalized finite elements. The deflation space…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Konstantinos Agathos , Tim Dodwell , Eleni Chatzi , Stephane P. A. Bordas

This paper is concerned with the design, analysis and implementation of preconditioning concepts for spectral Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic boundary value problems. While presently known techniques realize a growth of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Kolja Brix , Martin Campos Pinto , Claudio Canuto , Wolfgang Dahmen

In this paper, we propose an adaptive fast solver for a general class of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices which include the well-known graph Laplacian. We achieve this by developing an adaptive operator compression scheme and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Thomas Y. Hou , D. Huang , K. C. Lam , P. Zhang

In this work we present a space-time least squares isogeometric discretization of the Schr\"odinger equation and propose a preconditioner for the arising linear system in the parametric domain. Exploiting the tensor product structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Andrea Bressan , Alen Kushova , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

Layer-wise preconditioning methods are a family of memory-efficient optimization algorithms that introduce preconditioners per axis of each layer's weight tensors. These methods have seen a recent resurgence, demonstrating impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Thomas T. Zhang , Behrad Moniri , Ansh Nagwekar , Faraz Rahman , Anton Xue , Hamed Hassani , Nikolai Matni

We consider the solution of full column-rank least squares problems by means of normal equations that are preconditioned, symmetrically or non-symmetrically, with a randomized preconditioner. With an effective preconditioner, the solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ilse C. F. Ipsen

In this paper we propose several strategies for the exact computation of the determinant of a rational matrix. First, we use the Chinese Remaindering Theorem and the rational reconstruction to recover the rational determinant from its…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2009-04-16 Anna Urbanska

To precondition a large and sparse linear system, two direct methods for approximate factoring of the inverse are devised. The algorithms are fully parallelizable and appear to be more robust than the iterative methods suggested for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Mikko Byckling , Marko Huhtanen

Circulant preconditioners are commonly used to accelerate the rate of convergence of iterative methods when solving linear systems of equations with a Toeplitz matrix. Block extensions that can be applied when the system has a block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 L. Dykes , S. Noschese , L. Reichel

In this work, we propose a simple yet generic preconditioned Krylov subspace method for a large class of nonsymmetric block Toeplitz all-at-once systems arising from discretizing evolutionary partial differential equations. Namely, our main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Sean Hon , Po Yin Fung , Jiamei Dong , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

An effective power based parallel preconditioner is proposed for general large sparse linear systems. The preconditioner combines a power series expansion method with some low-rank correction techniques, where the Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Qingqing Zheng , Yuanzhe Xi , Yousef Saad

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) under the separability assumption can provably be solved efficiently, even in the presence of noise, and has been shown to be a powerful technique in document classification and hyperspectral unmixing.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 Nicolas Gillis , Stephen A. Vavasis

This paper introduces a robust preconditioner for general sparse symmetric matrices, that is based on low-rank approximations of the Schur complement in a Domain Decomposition (DD) framework. In this "Schur Low Rank" (SLR) preconditioning…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Ruipeng Li , Yuanzhe Xi , Yousef Saad

We study several variants of decomposing a symmetric matrix into a sum of a low-rank positive semidefinite matrix and a diagonal matrix. Such decompositions have applications in factor analysis and they have been studied for many decades.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Levent Tunçel , Stephen A. Vavasis , Jingye Xu

We propose an unconditionally robust and highly effective preconditioner for general symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices based on structured incomplete factorization (SIF), called enhanced SIF (eSIF) preconditioner. The original SIF…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Jianlin Xia

This paper focuses on the development of a two-level preconditioner based on a fully algebraical enhancement of a Schwarz domain decomposition method. We consider the purely divergence of a Restricted Additive Scwharz iterative process…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Thomas Dufaud , Tromeur-Dervout Damien

We investigate the Helmholtz equation with suitable boundary conditions and uncertainties in the wavenumber. Thus the wavenumber is modeled as a random variable or a random field. We discretize the Helmholtz equation using finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Roland Pulch , Olivier Sète

We present preconditioning techniques to solve linear systems of equations with a block two-by-two and three-by-three structure arising from finite element discretizations of the fictitious domain method with Lagrange multipliers. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Michele Benzi , Marco Feder , Luca Heltai , Federica Mugnaioni