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Reinforcement learning (RL) workloads take a notoriously long time to train due to the large number of samples collected at run-time from simulators. Unfortunately, cluster scale-up approaches remain expensive, and commonly used CPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 James Gleeson , Daniel Snider , Yvonne Yang , Moshe Gabel , Eyal de Lara , Gennady Pekhimenko

Efficient parallelization of algorithms on general-purpose GPUs is essential in many areas today. However, it is a non-trivial task for software engineers to utilize GPUs to improve the performance of high-level programs in general.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lars Hummelgren , John Wikman , Oscar Eriksson , Philipp Haller , David Broman

Existing value-based online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms suffer from slow policy exploitation due to ineffective exploration and delayed policy updates. To address these challenges, we propose an algorithm called Instant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Gong Gao , Weidong Zhao , Xianhui Liu , Ning Jia

The numerical integration of stochastic trajectories to estimate the time to pass a threshold is an interesting physical quantity, for instance in Josephson junctions and atomic force microscopy, where the full trajectory is not accessible.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Vincenzo Pierro , Luigi Troiano , Elena Mejuto , Giovannni Filatrella

With the advent of high-performance computing techniques, the data for analysis has grown significantly. Here, graphic processing unit (GPU) based program kernels are discussed to exploit parallelism in the analysis codes specific to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Gourav Shrivastav , Manish Agarwal

A method is presented for parallelizing the computation of solutions to discrete-time, linear-quadratic, finite-horizon optimal control problems, which we will refer to as LQR problems. This class of problem arises frequently in robotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Forrest Laine , Claire Tomlin

We present a GPU-accelerated proximal message passing algorithm for large-scale network utility maximization (NUM). NUM is a fundamental problem in resource allocation, where resources are allocated across various streams in a network to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Akshay Sreekumar , Anthony Degleris , Ram Rajagopal

In this paper, we explore the limits of graphics processors (GPUs) for general purpose parallel computing by studying problems that require highly irregular data access patterns: parallel graph algorithms for list ranking and connected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Frank Dehne , Kumanan Yogaratnam

GPU activity prediction is an important and complex problem. This is due to the high level of contention among thousands of parallel threads. This problem was mostly addressed using heuristics. We propose a representation learning approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Aswin Raghavan , Mohamed Amer , Timothy Shields , David Zhang , Sek Chai

This paper proposes a GPU-accelerated optimization framework for collision avoidance problems where the controlled objects and the obstacles can be modeled as the finite union of convex polyhedra. A novel collision avoidance constraint is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zeming Wu , Zhuping Wang , Hao Zhang

Contemporary macro energy systems modelling is characterized by the need to represent strategic and operational decisions with high temporal and spatial resolution and represent discrete investment and retirement decisions. This drive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Michael Lau , Filippo Pecci , Jesse D. Jenkins

The answers to data assimilation questions can be expressed as path integrals over all possible state and parameter histories. We show how these path integrals can be evaluated numerically using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method designed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 John C. Quinn , Henry D. I. Abarbanel

In this paper we propose an improved fast iterative method to solve the Eikonal equation, which can be implemented in parallel. We improve the fast iterative method for Eikonal equation in two novel ways, in the value update and in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Yuhao Huang

A data-based policy for iterative control task is presented. The proposed strategy is model-free and can be applied whenever safe input and state trajectories of a system performing an iterative task are available. These trajectories,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Ugo Rosolia , Xiaojing Zhang , Francesco Borrelli

Iterative retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models to answer complex multi-hop questions, but each additional loop increases latency, costs, and the risk of introducing distracting evidence, motivating the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jaewan Park , Solbee Cho , Jay-Yoon Lee

Similarity search finds application in specialized database systems handling complex data such as images or videos, which are typically represented by high-dimensional features and require specific indexing structures. This paper tackles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Jeff Johnson , Matthijs Douze , Hervé Jégou

We propose a novel technique for optimizing a modular fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture, taking into account any desired space-time trade-offs between the number of physical qubits and the fault-tolerant execution time of a…

Reduction operations are extensively employed in many computational problems. A reduction consists of, given a finite set of numeric elements, combining into a single value all elements in that set, using for this a combiner function. A…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Walid Jradi , Hugo do Nascimento , Wellington Martins

Adaptive finite elements combined with geometric multigrid solvers are one of the most efficient numerical methods for problems such as the instationary Navier-Stokes equations. Yet despite their efficiency, computations remain expensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Manuel Liebchen , Robert Jendersie , Utku Kaya , Christian Lessig , Thomas Richter

Bayesian parameter inference for complex stochastic simulators is challenging due to intractable likelihood functions. Existing simulation-based inference methods often require large number of simulations and become costly to use in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Vasilis Gkolemis , Christos Diou , Michael U. Gutmann