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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Sivaram Ambikasaran , Michael O'Neil , Karan Raj Singh

Network pruning can reduce the computation cost of deep neural network (DNN) models. However, sparse models often produce randomly-distributed weights to maintain accuracy, leading to irregular computations. Consequently, unstructured…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Cong Guo , Fengchen Xue , Jingwen Leng , Yuxian Qiu , Yue Guan , Weihao Cui , Quan Chen , Minyi Guo

We consider the problem of finding the optimal coefficient vector that maximizes the computation rate at a relay in the compute-and-forward scheme. Based on the idea of sphere decoding, we propose a highly efficient algorithm that finds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jinming Wen , Baojian Zhou , Wai Ho Mow , Xiao-Wen Chang

We present the submatrix method, a highly parallelizable method for the approximate calculation of inverse p-th roots of large sparse symmetric matrices which are required in different scientific applications. We follow the idea of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Michael Lass , Stephan Mohr , Hendrik Wiebeler , Thomas D. Kühne , Christian Plessl

The algorithms in the current sequential numerical linear algebra libraries (e.g. LAPACK) do not parallelize well on multicore architectures. A new family of algorithms, the tile algorithms, has recently been introduced. Previous research…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2010-02-23 Emmanuel Agullo , Henricus Bouwmeester , Jack Dongarra , Jakub Kurzak , Julien Langou , Lee Rosenberg

Matrix factorization (MF) is a widely used collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm for recommendation systems (RSs), due to its high prediction accuracy, great flexibility and high efficiency in big data processing. However, with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yining Wu , Shengyu Duan , Gaole Sai , Chenhong Cao , Guobing Zou

We propose a solution strategy for linear systems arising in interior method optimization, which is suitable for implementation on hardware accelerators such as graphical processing units (GPUs). The current gold standard for solving these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Shaked Regev , Nai-Yuan Chiang , Eric Darve , Cosmin G. Petra , Michael A. Saunders , Kasia Świrydowicz , Slaven Peleš

Generalized inverses play a fundamental role in numerical linear algebra, particularly when matrices are rectangular, singular, or rank deficient. Even when the input matrix is sparse, generalized inverses such as the M-P pseudoinverse are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Ananias Machado , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee

In this paper, we consider two fundamental symmetric kernels in linear algebra: the Cholesky factorization and the symmetric rank-$k$ update (SYRK), with the classical three nested loops algorithms for these kernels. In addition, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Olivier Beaumont , Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Mathieu Vérité , Julien Langou

The Cholesky decomposition is a fundamental tool for solving linear systems with symmetric and positive definite matrices which are ubiquitous in linear algebra, optimization, and machine learning. Its numerical stability can be improved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Filip de Roos , Fabio Muratore

We propose to compute a sparse approximate inverse Cholesky factor $L$ of a dense covariance matrix $\Theta$ by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the Gaussian distributions $\mathcal{N}(0, \Theta)$ and $\mathcal{N}(0,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Florian Schäfer , Matthias Katzfuss , Houman Owhadi

Tile low rank representations of dense matrices partition them into blocks of roughly uniform size, where each off-diagonal tile is compressed and stored as its own low rank factorization. They offer an attractive representation for many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Wajih Boukaram , Stefano Zampini , George Turkiyyah , David Keyes

Direct collocation methods are widely used numerical techniques for solving optimal control problems. The discretization of continuous-time optimal control problems transforms them into large-scale nonlinear programming problems, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Yilin Zou , Fanghua Jiang

Hashing method maps similar data to binary hashcodes with smaller hamming distance, and it has received a broad attention due to its low storage cost and fast retrieval speed. However, the existing limitations make the present algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Shifeng Zhang , Jianmin Li , Jinma Guo , Bo Zhang

We present a fast direct solver for structured linear systems based on multilevel matrix compression. Using the recently developed interpolative decomposition of a low-rank matrix in a recursive manner, we embed an approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Kenneth L. Ho , Leslie Greengard

Our interest lies in the robust and efficient solution of large sparse linear least-squares problems. In recent years, hardware developments have led to a surge in interest in exploiting mixed precision arithmetic within numerical linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma

This paper introduces an efficient and generic framework for finite-element simulations under an implicit time integration scheme. Being compatible with generic constitutive models, a fast matrix assembly method exploits the fact that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ziqiu Zeng , Hadrien Courtecuisse

Estimating large covariance matrices has been a longstanding important problem in many applications and has attracted increased attention over several decades. This paper deals with two methods based on pre-existing works to impose sparsity…

Applications · Statistics 2017-12-06 Ahmad W. Bitar , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez , Loong-Fah Cheong

We introduce a new sparse sliced inverse regression estimator called Cholesky matrix penalization and its adaptive version for achieving sparsity in estimating the dimensions of the central subspace. The new estimators use the Cholesky…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-21 Linh Nghiem , Francis K. C. Hui , Samuel Mueller , A. H. Welsh

The real-space density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT) for the computations of the response properties with respect to the atomic displacement and homogeneous electric field perturbation has been recently developed and implemented…

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