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Solving systems of linear equations is a problem occuring frequently in water engineering applications. Usually the size of the problem is too large to be solved via direct factorization. One can resort to iterative approaches, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Johannes Sappl , Laurent Seiler , Matthias Harders , Wolfgang Rauch

We investigate iterative methods with randomized preconditioners for solving overdetermined least-squares problems, where the preconditioners are based on a random embedding of the data matrix. We consider two distinct approaches: the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

In practical instances of nonconvex matrix factorization, the rank of the true solution $r^{\star}$ is often unknown, so the rank $r$ of the model can be overspecified as $r>r^{\star}$. This over-parameterized regime of matrix factorization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Gavin Zhang , Salar Fattahi , Richard Y. Zhang

In the past decade, a combination of unfitted finite elements (or XFEM) with the Nitsche method has become a popular discretization method for elliptic interface problems. This development started with the introduction and analysis of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

In this work we present a space-time least squares isogeometric discretization of the Schr\"odinger equation and propose a preconditioner for the arising linear system in the parametric domain. Exploiting the tensor product structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Andrea Bressan , Alen Kushova , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

We consider block preconditioners for double saddle-point systems, and investigate the effect of approximating the nested Schur complement associated with the trailing diagonal block on the eigenvalue distribution of the preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Chen Greif

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a new family of numerical methods for the approximation of partial differential equations, where the geometry of the polytopal mesh elements can be very general. The aim of this article is to extend the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Simone Scacchi

In this paper, a new block preconditioner is proposed for the saddle point problem arising from the Neumann boundary control problem. In order to deal with the singularity of the stiffness matrix, the saddle point problem is first extended…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Chaojie Wang , Xuan Zhang , Xingding Chen

Large linear systems are ubiquitous in modern computational science and engineering. The main recipe for solving them is the use of Krylov subspace iterative methods with well-designed preconditioners. Recently, GNNs have been shown to be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Vladislav Trifonov , Alexander Rudikov , Oleg Iliev , Yuri M. Laevsky , Ivan Oseledets , Ekaterina Muravleva

Fast computation of demagnetization curves is essential for the computational design of soft magnetic sensors or permanent magnet materials. We show that a sparse preconditioner for a nonlinear conjugate gradient energy minimizer can lead…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Lukas Exl , Johann Fischbacher , Alexander Kovacs , Harald Oezelt , Markus Gusenbauer , Thomas Schrefl

The spectrum of a kernel matrix significantly depends on the parameter values of the kernel function used to define the kernel matrix. This makes it challenging to design a preconditioner for a regularized kernel matrix that is robust…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Shifan Zhao , Tianshi Xu , Hua Huang , Edmond Chow , Yuanzhe Xi

This paper introduces a novel optimization algorithm designed for nonlinear least-squares problems. The method is derived by preconditioning the gradient descent direction using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the Jacobian. This…

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We study discrete-time mirror descent applied to the unregularized empirical risk in matrix sensing. In both the general case of rectangular matrices and the particular case of positive semidefinite matrices, a simple potential-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Fan Wu , Patrick Rebeschini

We present randomized algorithms for estimating the trace and deter- minant of Hermitian positive semi-definite matrices. The algorithms are based on subspace iteration, and access the matrix only through matrix vector products. We analyse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Arvind K. Saibaba , Alen Alexanderian , Ilse C. F. Ipsen

In the context of isogeometric analysis, we consider two discretization approaches that make the resulting stiffness matrix nonsymmetric even if the differential operator is self-adjoint. These are the collocation method and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Mattia Tani

We study the solution of large symmetric positive-definite linear systems in a matrix-free setting with a limited iteration budget. We focus on the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) method with spectral preconditioning. Spectral…

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In this paper we consider linear systems with dense-matrices which arise from numerical solution of boundary integral equations. Such matrices can be well-approximated with $\mathcal{H}^2$-matrices. We propose several new preconditioners…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Daria Sushnikova , Ivan V. Oseledets

In the finite difference approximation of the fractional Laplacian the stiffness matrix is typically dense and needs to be approximated numerically. The effect of the accuracy in approximating the stiffness matrix on the accuracy in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Weizhang Huang , Jinye Shen

This paper considers the minimization of a continuously differentiable function over a cardinality constraint. We focus on smooth and relatively smooth functions. These smoothness criteria result in new descent lemmas. Based on the new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Fatih Selim Aktas , Mustafa Celebi Pinar

Since optimization on Riemannian manifolds relies on the chosen metric, it is appealing to know that how the performance of a Riemannian optimization method varies with different metrics and how to exquisitely construct a metric such that a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Bin Gao , Renfeng Peng , Ya-xiang Yuan