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Rearranging the rows or columns of a sparse matrix using an appropriate ordering can significantly reduce fill-ins, i.e., new nonzeros introduced during matrix factorization, decreasing memory usage and runtime. However, finding an ordering…

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Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a popular approach for solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). Compared to fully connected neural networks, PINNs based on…

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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,…

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Sparse coding--that is, modelling data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements--is widely used in machine learning, neuroscience, signal processing, and statistics. This paper focuses on the large-scale matrix factorization…

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Preconditioning is a key component of MCMC algorithms that improves sampling efficiency by facilitating exploration of geometrically complex target distributions through an invertible map. While linear preconditioners are often sufficient…

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To precondition a large and sparse linear system, two direct methods for approximate factoring of the inverse are devised. The algorithms are fully parallelizable and appear to be more robust than the iterative methods suggested for the…

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We propose a method that meta-learns a knowledge on matrix factorization from various matrices, and uses the knowledge for factorizing unseen matrices. The proposed method uses a neural network that takes a matrix as input, and generates…

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The conjugate gradient solver (CG) is a prevalent method for solving symmetric and positive definite linear systems Ax=b, where effective preconditioners are crucial for fast convergence. Traditional preconditioners rely on prescribed…

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Solving sparse linear systems from discretized PDEs is challenging. Direct solvers have in many cases quadratic complexity (depending on geometry), while iterative solvers require problem dependent preconditioners to be robust and…

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Convolution-type integral equations arise from various fields, \textit{e.g.}, finite impulse response filters in signal processing and deblurring problems in image processing. When solving these equations, conventional numerical methods,…

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The computational and storage complexity of kernel machines presents the primary barrier to their scaling to large, modern, datasets. A common way to tackle the scalability issue is to use the conjugate gradient algorithm, which relieves…

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When solving linear systems arising from PDE discretizations, iterative methods (such as Conjugate Gradient, GMRES, or MINRES) are often the only practical choice. To converge in a small number of iterations, however, they have to be…

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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…

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Sparse matrix factorization is a popular tool to obtain interpretable data decompositions, which are also effective to perform data completion or denoising. Its applicability to large datasets has been addressed with online and randomized…

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Matrix factorization (MF) is a widely used collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm for recommendation systems (RSs), due to its high prediction accuracy, great flexibility and high efficiency in big data processing. However, with the…

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Leveraging second-order information about the loss at the scale of deep networks is one of the main lines of approach for improving the performance of current optimizers for deep learning. Yet, existing approaches for accurate full-matrix…

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Gaussian process hyperparameter optimization requires linear solves with, and log-determinants of, large kernel matrices. Iterative numerical techniques are becoming popular to scale to larger datasets, relying on the conjugate gradient…

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In this paper, we further investigate and refine the subspace-constrained preconditioning technique to enhance the theoretical and numerical convergence properties of randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems. In particular,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yonghan Sun , Hou-Duo Qi , Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

Sparse coding is a core building block in many data analysis and machine learning pipelines. Typically it is solved by relying on generic optimization techniques, that are optimal in the class of first-order methods for non-smooth, convex…

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