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Matrix factorizations are among the most important building blocks of scientific computing. State-of-the-art libraries, however, are not communication-optimal, underutilizing current parallel architectures. We present novel algorithms for…
We present a modified version of the PRESB preconditioner for two-by-two block system of linear equations with the coefficient matrix $$\textbf{A}=\left(\begin{array}{cc} F & -G^* G & F \end{array}\right),$$ where $F\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times…
The Symmetric Primal-Dual Symplex Pivot Decision Strategy (spdspds) is a novel iterative algorithm to solve linear programming problems. A symplex pivoting operation is simply an exchange between a basic variable and a non-basic variable,…
We propose QPALM, a nonconvex quadratic programming (QP) solver based on the proximal augmented Lagrangian method. This method solves a sequence of inner subproblems which can be enforced to be strongly convex and which therefore admit a…
Cholesky factorization is a widely used method for solving linear systems involving symmetric, positive-definite matrices, and can be an attractive choice in applications where a high degree of numerical stability is needed. One such…
Efficient numerical solvers for partial differential equations empower science and engineering. One of the commonly employed numerical solvers is the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm which can solve large systems to a given…
We present a novel, practical, and provable approach for solving diagonally constrained semi-definite programming (SDP) problems at scale using accelerated non-convex programming. Our algorithm non-trivially combines acceleration motions…
In this paper we propose a new inexact dual decomposition algorithm for solving separable convex optimization problems. This algorithm is a combination of three techniques: dual Lagrangian decomposition, smoothing and excessive gap. The…
We introduce a new family of algorithms for detecting and estimating a rank-one signal from a noisy observation under prior information about that signal's direction, focusing on examples where the signal is known to have entries biased to…
The Hadamard decomposition is a powerful technique for data analysis and matrix compression, which decomposes a given matrix into the element-wise product of two or more low-rank matrices. In this paper, we develop an efficient algorithm to…
High-resolution simulations of particle-based kinetic plasma models typically require a high number of particles and thus often become computationally intractable. This is exacerbated in multi-query simulations, where the problem depends on…
Positive semidefinite matrix factorization (PSDMF) expresses each entry of a nonnegative matrix as the inner product of two positive semidefinite (psd) matrices. When all these psd matrices are constrained to be diagonal, this model is…
In recent years, randomized algorithms have established themselves as fundamental tools in computational linear algebra, with applications in scientific computing, machine learning, and quantum information science. Many randomized matrix…
The split feasibility problem is to find an element in the intersection of a closed set $C$ and the linear preimage of another closed set $D$, assuming the projections onto $C$ and $D$ are easy to compute. This class of problems arises…
The discretization of the double-layer potential integral equation for the interior Dirichlet Laplace problem in a domain with smooth boundary results in a linear system that has a bounded condition number. Thus, the number of iterations…
This paper proposes a novel proximal difference-of-convex (DC) algorithm enhanced with extrapolation and aggressive non-monotone line search for solving non-convex optimization problems. We introduce an adaptive conservative update strategy…
Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are powerful theoretical tools that have been studied for over two decades, but their practical use remains limited due to computational difficulties in solving large-scale, realistic-sized problems. In this…
Sparse linear algebra routines are fundamental building blocks of a large variety of scientific applications. Direct solvers, which are methods for solving linear systems via the factorization of matrices into products of triangular…
PDDSparse is a new hybrid parallelisation scheme for solving large-scale elliptic boundary value problems on supercomputers, which can be described as a Feynman-Kac formula for domain decomposition. At its core lies a stochastic linear,…
We propose a new method for computing Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) evolution matrices, which we use to analyze dynamical systems. Unlike the majority of existing methods, our approach is based on a variational formulation consisting of…