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We develop a parallel-in-time multigrid preconditioner for augmented systems. These saddle-point systems are foundational to numerical optimization. Our preconditioner, when paired with a suitable optimization method, accelerates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Radoslav Vuchkov , Eric C. Cyr , Aurya Javeed , Denis Ridzal

We shall propose and analyze some new preconditioners for the saddle-point systems arising from the edge element discretization of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in three dimensions. We will first consider the saddle-point systems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Hua Xiang , Shiyang Zhang , Jun Zou

This paper proposes a new parameterized enhanced shift-splitting (PESS) preconditioner to solve the three-by-three block saddle point problem (SPP). Additionally, we introduce a local PESS (LPESS) preconditioner by relaxing the PESS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Sk. Safique Ahmad , Pinki Khatun

In this paper, we address the efficient numerical solution of linear and quadratic programming problems, often of large scale. With this aim, we devise an infeasible interior point method, blended with the proximal method of multipliers,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Luca Bergamaschi , Jacek Gondzio , Ángeles Martínez , John W. Pearson , Spyridon Pougkakiotis

The complex-shifted Laplacian systems arising in a wide range of applications. In this work, we propose an absolute-value based preconditioner for solving the complex-shifted Laplacian system. In our approach, the complex-shifted Laplacian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Xuelei Lin , Congcong Li , Sean Hon

We introduce a new sequential subspace optimization method for large-scale saddle-point problems. It solves iteratively a sequence of auxiliary saddle-point problems in low-dimensional subspaces, spanned by directions derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Yoni Choukroun , Michael Zibulevsky , Pavel Kisilev

We consider the iterative solution of regularized saddle-point systems. When the leading block is symmetric and positive semi-definite on an appropriate subspace, Dollar, Gould, Schilders, and Wathen (2006) describe how to apply the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Daniela di Serafino , Dominique Orban

We derive novel, fast, and parameter-robust preconditioned iterative methods for steady and time-dependent Navier--Stokes control problems. Our approach may be applied to time-dependent problems which are discretized using backward Euler or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Santolo Leveque , John W. Pearson

In contact mechanics computation, the constraint conditions on the contact surfaces are typically enforced by the Lagrange multiplier method, resulting in a saddle point system. Given that the saddle point matrix is indefinite, solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Xiaoyu Duan , Hengbin An

We study preconditioners for a model problem describing the coupling of two elliptic subproblems posed over domains with different topological dimension by a parameter dependent constraint. A pair of parameter robust and efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Miroslav Kuchta , Magne Nordaas , Joris C. G. Verschaeve , Mikael Mortensen , Kent-Andre Mardal

Saddle point problems arise in a variety of applications, e.g., when solving the Stokes equations. They can be formulated such that the system matrix is symmetric, but indefinite, so the variational convergence theory that is usually used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Matthias Bolten , Marco Donatelli , Paola Ferrari , Isabella Furci

A new domain decomposition preconditioner is introduced for efficiently solving linear systems Ax = b with a symmetric positive definite matrix A. The particularity of the new preconditioner is that it is not necessary to have access to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Nicole Spillane

This paper introduces inexact versions of several block-splitting preconditioners for solving the three-by-three block linear systems arising from a special class of indefinite least squares problems. We first establish the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Mohaddese Kaveh Shaldehi , Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

We construct a locally-lexicographic SSOR preconditioner to accelerate the parallel iterative solution of linear systems of equations for two improved discretizations of lattice fermions: the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert scheme where a…

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We introduce a novel strategy for constructing symmetric positive definite (SPD) preconditioners for linear systems with symmetric indefinite matrices. The strategy, called absolute value preconditioning, is motivated by the observation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Eugene Vecharynski , Andrew V. Knyazev

Preconditioning has long been a staple technique in optimization, often applied to reduce the condition number of a matrix and speed up the convergence of algorithms. Although there are many popular preconditioning techniques in practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Zhaonan Qu , Wenzhi Gao , Oliver Hinder , Yinyu Ye , Zhengyuan Zhou

We develop a simple algorithmic framework to solve large-scale symmetric positive definite linear systems. At its core, the framework relies on two components: (1) a norm-convergent iterative method (i.e. smoother) and (2) a preconditioner.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Xiaozhe Hu , Shuhong Wu , Xiao-Hui Wu , Jinchao Xu , Chen-Song Zhang , Shiquan Zhang , Ludmil Zikatanov

The efficient solution of moderately large-scale linear systems arising from the KKT conditions in optimal control problems (OCPs) is a critical challenge in robotics. With the stagnation of Moore's law, there is growing interest in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Shaohui Yang , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka , Brian Plancher , Colin N. Jones

This paper develops the preconditioning technique as a method to address the accuracy issue caused by ill-conditioning. Given a preconditioner $M$ for an ill-conditioned linear system $Ax=b$, we show that, if the inverse of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Qiang Ye

This work aims to accelerate the convergence of proximal gradient methods used to solve regularized linear inverse problems. This is achieved by designing a polynomial-based preconditioner that targets the eigenvalue spectrum of the normal…