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We devise a variable precision floating-point arithmetic by exploiting the framework provided by the Infinity Computer. This is a computational platform implementing the Infinity Arithmetic system, a positional numeral system which can…

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Determinantal point processes (DPPs) offer an elegant tool for encoding probabilities over subsets of a ground set. Discrete DPPs are parametrized by a positive semidefinite matrix (called the DPP kernel), and estimating this kernel is key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Zelda Mariet , Suvrit Sra

We describe an efficient algorithm to compute a conformally equivalent metric for a discrete surface, possibly with boundary, exhibiting prescribed Gaussian curvature at all interior vertices and prescribed geodesic curvature along the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Marcel Campen , Ryan Capouellez , Hanxiao Shen , Leyi Zhu , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin

Iterative solvers are frequently used in scientific applications and engineering computations. However, the memory-bound Sparse Matrix-Vector (SpMV) kernel computation hinders the efficiency of iterative algorithms. As modern hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jianhua Gao , Jiayuan Shen , Yuxiang Zhang , Weixing Ji , Hua Huang

We present a set of rules to guide the design of GPU algorithms. These rules are grounded on the principle of reducing waste in GPU utility to achieve good speed up. In accordance to these rules, we propose GPU algorithms for 2D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zhenghai Chen , Tiow-Seng Tan , Hong-Yang Ong

In todays world, high-power computing applications such as image processing, digital signal processing, graphics, and robotics require enormous computing power. These applications use matrix operations, especially matrix multiplication.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Arish S , R. K. Sharma

Floating-point accumulation networks (FPANs) are key building blocks used in many floating-point algorithms, including compensated summation and double-double arithmetic. FPANs are notoriously difficult to analyze, and algorithms using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 David K. Zhang , Alex Aiken

Fixed-point iterations are at the heart of numerical computing and are often a computational bottleneck in real-time applications that typically need a fast solution of moderate accuracy. We present neural fixed-point acceleration which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Shobha Venkataraman , Brandon Amos

The torrential influx of floating-point data from domains like IoT and HPC necessitates high-performance lossless compression to mitigate storage costs while preserving absolute data fidelity. Leveraging GPU parallelism for this task…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zheng Li , Weiyan Wang , Ruiyuan Li , Chao Chen , Xianlei Long , Linjiang Zheng , Quanqing Xu , Chuanhui Yang

Accurate simulations of various physical processes on digital computers requires huge computing performance, therefore accelerating these scientific and engineering applications has a great importance. Density of programmable logic devices…

Performance · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Zoltan Nagy , Csaba Nemes , Antal Hiba , Arpad Csik , Andras Kiss , Miklos Ruszinko , Peter Szolgay

Finite-precision floating point arithmetic unavoidably introduces rounding errors which are traditionally bounded using a worst-case analysis. However, worst-case analysis might be overly conservative because worst-case errors can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Fredrik Dahlqvist , Rocco Salvia , George A Constantinides

Solving linear systems is a ubiquitous task in science and engineering. Because directly inverting a large-scale linear system can be computationally expensive, iterative algorithms are often used to numerically find the inverse. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Zheyuan Zhu , Andrew B. Klein , Guifang Li , Shuo Pang

Finite-precision arithmetic computations face an inherent tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency. The points in this tradeoff space are determined, among other factors, by different data types but also evaluation orders. To put it simply,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Eva Darulova , Einar Horn , Saksham Sharma

State-of-the-art scene flow algorithms pursue the conflicting targets of accuracy, run time, and robustness. With the successful concept of pixel-wise matching and sparse-to-dense interpolation, we push the limits of scene flow estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Christian Unger , Georg Kuschk , Didier Stricker

Frugal computing is becoming an important topic for environmental reasons. In this context, several techniques have been proposed to reduce the storage of scientific data by dedicated compression methods specially tailored for arrays of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Matthieu Martel

Customizing the precision of data can provide attractive trade-offs between accuracy and hardware resources. We propose a novel form of vector computing aimed at arrays of custom-precision floating point data. We represent these vectors in…

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We propose the first GPU algorithm for the 3D triangulation refinement problem. For an input of a piecewise linear complex $\mathcal{G}$ and a constant $B$, it produces, by adding Steiner points, a constrained Delaunay triangulation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Zhenghai Chen , Tiow-Seng Tan

In the design of algorithms, the greedy paradigm provides a powerful tool for solving efficiently classical computational problems, within the framework of procedural languages. However, expressing these algorithms within the declarative…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sergio Greco , Carlo Zaniolo

Existing fast algorithms for bilateral and nonlocal means filtering mostly work with grayscale images. They cannot easily be extended to high-dimensional data such as color and hyperspectral images, patch-based data, flow-fields, etc. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pravin Nair , Kunal. N. Chaudhury

Significant inaccuracy often occurs during the process of mathematical calculation due to the digit limitation of floating point, which may lead to catastrophic loss. Normally, people believe that adjustment of floating-point precision is…

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