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We consider the setting of distributed empirical risk minimization where multiple machines compute the gradients in parallel and a centralized server updates the model parameters. In order to reduce the number of communications required to…

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Sparse training is a natural idea to accelerate the training speed of deep neural networks and save the memory usage, especially since large modern neural networks are significantly over-parameterized. However, most of the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Xiao Zhou , Weizhong Zhang , Zonghao Chen , Shizhe Diao , Tong Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been proposed as a tool for learning sparse matrix preconditioners, which are key components in accelerating linear solvers. We present theoretical and empirical evidence that message-passing GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Vladislav Trifonov , Ekaterina Muravleva , Ivan Oseledets

We describe a graph-based neural acceleration technique for nonnegative matrix factorization that builds upon a connection between matrices and bipartite graphs that is well-known in certain fields, e.g., sparse linear algebra, but has not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Jens Sjölund , Maria Bånkestad

We propose a new approximate factorization for solving linear systems with symmetric positive definite sparse matrices. In a nutshell the algorithm is to apply hierarchically block Gaussian elimination and additionally compress the fill-in.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Daria A. Sushnikova , Ivan V. Oseledets

In this work, we present a new scalable incomplete LU factorization framework called Javelin to be used as a preconditioner for solving sparse linear systems with iterative methods. Javelin allows for improved parallel factorization on…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Joshua Dennis Booth , Gregory Bolet

This work develops neural-network--based preconditioners to accelerate solution of the Wilson-Dirac normal equation in lattice quantum field theories. The approach is implemented for the two-flavor lattice Schwinger model near the critical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-03-08 Salvatore Calì , Daniel C. Hackett , Yin Lin , Phiala E. Shanahan , Brian Xiao

In this paper we introduce an algebraic recursive multilevel incomplete factorization preconditioner, based on a distributed Schur complement formulation, for solving general linear systems. The novelty of the proposed method is to combine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Yiming Bu , Bruno Carpentieri , Zhaoli Shen , Tingzhu Huang

Matrix completion is one of the key problems in signal processing and machine learning. In recent years, deep-learning-based models have achieved state-of-the-art results in matrix completion. Nevertheless, they suffer from two drawbacks:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Duc Minh Nguyen , Evaggelia Tsiligianni , Nikos Deligiannis

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

A structured preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) solver is developed for the Newton steps in second-order methods for a class of constrained network optimal control problems. Of specific interest are problems with discrete-time dynamics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Armaghan Zafar , Michael Cantoni , Farhad Farokhi

Nonnegative matrix factorization is a powerful technique to realize dimension reduction and pattern recognition through single-layer data representation learning. Deep learning, however, with its carefully designed hierarchical structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Zhenxing Guo , Shihua Zhang

Many application problems that lead to solving linear systems make use of preconditioned Krylov subspace solvers to compute their solution. Among the most popular preconditioning approaches are incomplete factorization methods either as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Matthias Bollhöfer , Olaf Schenk , Fabio Verbosio

We introduce a neural-preconditioned iterative solver for Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions. Typical Poisson discretizations yield large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Iterative solvers can be effective for these problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Kai Weixian Lan , Elias Gueidon , Ayano Kaneda , Julian Panetta , Joseph Teran

We present a matrix-factorization algorithm that scales to input matrices with both huge number of rows and columns. Learned factors may be sparse or dense and/or non-negative, which makes our algorithm suitable for dictionary learning,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Arthur Mensch , Julien Mairal , Bertrand Thirion , Gael Varoquaux

Off-lattice agent-based models (or cell-based models) of multicellular systems are increasingly used to create in-silico models of in-vitro and in-vivo experimental setups of cells and tissues, such as cancer spheroids, neural crest cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Justin Steinman , Andreas Buttenschön

Inversion of sparse matrices with standard direct solve schemes is robust, but computationally expensive. Iterative solvers, on the other hand, demonstrate better scalability; but, need to be used with an appropriate preconditioner (e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Hadi Pouransari , Pieter Coulier , Eric Darve

We develop a robust matrix-free, communication avoiding parallel, high-degree polynomial preconditioner for the Conjugate Gradient method for large and sparse symmetric positive definite linear systems. We discuss the selection of a scaling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 L. Bergamaschi , M. Ferronato , G. Isotton , C. Janna , A. Martinez

We analyze a weighted Frobenius loss for approximating symmetric positive definite matrices in the context of preconditioning iterative solvers. Unlike the standard Frobenius norm, the weighted loss penalizes error components associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Vladislav Trifonov , Ivan Oseledets , Ekaterina Muravleva

Although some preconditioners are available for solving dense linear systems, there are still many matrices for which preconditioners are lacking, in particular in cases where the size of the matrix $N$ becomes very large. There remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Pieter Coulier , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve