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This paper introduces a new preconditioning technique that is suitable for matrices arising from the discretization of a system of PDEs on unstructured grids. The preconditioner satisfies a so-called filtering property, which ensures that…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-03-17 Laura Grigori , Frédéric Nataf

The aim of this paper is to solve large-and-sparse linear Semidefinite Programs (SDPs) with low-rank solutions. We propose to use a preconditioned conjugate gradient method within second-order SDP algorithms and introduce a new efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Soodeh Habibi , Arefeh Kavand , Michal Kocvara , Michael Stingl

This paper explores preconditioning the normal equation for non-symmetric square linear systems arising from PDE discretization, focusing on methods like CGNE and LSQR. The concept of ``normal'' preconditioning is introduced and a strategy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Lorenzo Lazzarino , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Umberto Zerbinati

The use of the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method for computing the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimator of the General Linear Model (GLM) is considered. The GLS estimator is expressed in terms of the solution of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Paolo Foschi

Many problems in geophysical and atmospheric modelling require the fast solution of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in "flat" three dimensional geometries. In particular, an anisotropic elliptic PDE for the pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Eike Mueller , Xu Guo , Robert Scheichl , Sinan Shi

We revisit gradient-based optimization for infinite projected entangled pair states (iPEPS), a tensor network ansatz for simulating many-body quantum systems. This approach is hindered by two major challenges: the high computational cost of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-09 Xing-Yu Zhang , Qi Yang , Philippe Corboz , Jutho Haegeman , Wei Tang

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) still is the workhorse for many practical problems. However, it converges slow, and can be difficult to tune. It is possible to precondition SGD to accelerate its convergence remarkably. But many attempts…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-23 Xi-Lin Li

This work aims to accelerate the convergence of proximal gradient methods used to solve regularized linear inverse problems. This is achieved by designing a polynomial-based preconditioner that targets the eigenvalue spectrum of the normal…

Physics-informed deep learning often faces optimization challenges due to the complexity of solving partial differential equations (PDEs), which involve exploring large solution spaces, require numerous iterations, and can lead to unstable…

For real matrices of full column-rank, we analyze the conditioning of several types of normal equations that are preconditioned by a randomized preconditioner computed in lower precision. These include symmetrically preconditioned normal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 James E. Garrison , Ilse C. F. Ipsen

We deal with the numerical solution of linear partial differential equations (PDEs) with focus on the goal-oriented error estimates including algebraic errors arising by an inaccurate solution of the corresponding algebraic systems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Vít Dolejší , Petr Tichý

We show that the mass matrix derived from finite elements can be effectively used as a preconditioner for iteratively solving the linear system arising from finite-difference discretization of the Poisson equation, using the conjugate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Chen Greif , Yunhui He

The Legendre spectral Galerkin method of self-adjoint second order elliptic equations usually results in a linear system with a dense and ill-conditioned coefficient matrix. In this paper, the linear system is solved by a preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Xuhao Diao , Jun Hu , Suna Ma

Linear systems with large differences between coefficients ("discontinuous coefficients") arise in many cases in which partial differential equations(PDEs) model physical phenomena involving heterogeneous media. The standard approach to…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2009-05-04 Dan Gordon , Rachel Gordon

We consider adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) with inexact algebraic solvers for second-order symmetric linear elliptic diffusion problems. Optimal complexity of AFEM, i.e., optimal convergence rates with respect to the overall…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Paula Hilbert , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

We consider a linear iterative solver for large scale linearly constrained quadratic minimization problems that arise, for example, in optimization with PDEs. By a primal-dual projection (PDP) iteration, which can be interpreted and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Anton Schiela , Matthias Stöcklein , Martin Weiser

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

The Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method is widely used for solving linear systems of equations with sparse matrices. A recent version of PCG, Pipelined PCG, eliminates the dependencies in the computations of the PCG algorithm so…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Manasi Tiwari , Sathish Vadhiyar

Preconditioning has long been a staple technique in optimization, often applied to reduce the condition number of a matrix and speed up the convergence of algorithms. Although there are many popular preconditioning techniques in practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Zhaonan Qu , Wenzhi Gao , Oliver Hinder , Yinyu Ye , Zhengyuan Zhou

We analyze the conjugate gradient (CG) method with variable preconditioning for solving a linear system with a real symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix of coefficients $A$. We assume that the preconditioner is SPD on each step, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-24 Andrew V. Knyazev , Ilya Lashuk