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In some cases, computational benefit can be gained by exploring the hyper parameter space using a deterministic set of grid points instead of a Markov chain. We view this as a numerical integration problem and make three unique…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-30 Chaitanya Joshi , Paul T. Brown , Stephen Joe

An efficient $hp$-multigrid scheme is presented for local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) discretizations of elliptic problems, formulated around the idea of separately coarsening the underlying discrete gradient and divergence operators. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Daniel Fortunato , Chris H. Rycroft , Robert Saye

While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) push the state-of-the-art in many machine learning applications, they often require millions of expensive floating-point operations for each input classification. This computation overhead limits the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Hokchhay Tann , Soheil Hashemi , Iris Bahar , Sherief Reda

Renewed interest in mixed-precision algorithms has emerged due to growing data capacity and bandwidth concerns, as well as the advancement of GPUs, which enable significant speedup for low precision arithmetic. In light of this, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Alec Michael Dunton , Alyson Fox

We propose a scheme for reduced-precision representation of floating point data on a continuum between IEEE-754 floating point types. Our scheme enables the use of lower precision formats for a reduction in storage space requirements and…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Andrew Anderson , David Gregg

Nowadays, parallel computing is ubiquitous in several application fields, both in engineering and science. The computations rely on the floating-point arithmetic specified by the IEEE754 Standard. In this context, an elementary brick of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Farah Benmouhoub , Pierre-Loïc Garoche , Matthieu Martel

Multilevel techniques are efficient approaches for solving the large linear systems that arise from discretized partial differential equations and other problems. While geometric multigrid requires detailed knowledge about the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Tareq. U. Zaman , Scott P. MacLachlan , Luke N. Olson , Matt West

This paper solves the discretised multiphase flow equations using tools and methods from machine-learning libraries. The idea comes from the observation that convolutional layers can be used to express a discretisation as a neural network…

The use of reduced and mixed precision computing has gained increasing attention in high-performance computing (HPC) as a means to improve computational efficiency, particularly on modern hardware architectures like GPUs. In this work, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Bálint Siklósi , Pushpender K. Sharma , David J. Lusher , István Z. Reguly , Neil D. Sandham

When modeling scientific and industrial problems, geometries are typically modeled by explicit boundary representations obtained from computer-aided design software. Unfitted (also known as embedded or immersed) finite element methods offer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pere A. Martorell , Santiago Badia

Graph analytics techniques based on spectral methods process extremely large sparse matrices with millions or even billions of non-zero values. Behind these algorithms lies the Top-K sparse eigenproblem, the computation of the largest…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Francesco Sgherzi , Alberto Parravicini , Marco Domenico Santambrogio

Large neural networks spend most computation on floating point tensor multiplications. In this work, we find that a floating point multiplier can be approximated by one integer adder with high precision. We propose the linear-complexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Hongyin Luo , Wei Sun

We provide tools to help automate the error analysis of algorithms that evaluate simple functions over the floating-point numbers. The aim is to obtain tight relative error bounds for these algorithms, expressed as a function of the unit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Jean-Michel Muller , Bruno Salvy

Many problems in computational science and engineering involve partial differential equations and thus require the numerical solution of large, sparse (non)linear systems of equations. Multigrid is known to be one of the most efficient…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Harald Koestler , Christian Schmitt , Sebastian Kuckuk , Frank Hannig , Juergen Teich , Ulrich Ruede

Finite-element (FE) discretisations have emerged as a powerful real-space alternative to large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) calculations, offering systematic convergence, excellent parallel scalability, while…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Gourab Panigrahi , Phani Motamarri

We propose a generalized multiscale finite element method (GMsFEM) based on clustering algorithm to study the elliptic PDEs with random coefficients in the multi-query setting. Our method consists of offline and online stages. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Zhiwen Zhang

The finite field multiplier is mainly used in many of today's state of the art digital systems and its hardware implementation for bit parallel operation may require millions of logic gates. Natural causes or soft errors in digital design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Saeideh Nabipour , Javad Javidan , Gholamreza Zare Fatin

The geometric multigrid method (GMG) is one of the most efficient solving techniques for discrete algebraic systems arising from elliptic partial differential equations. GMG utilizes a hierarchy of grids or discretizations and reduces the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Chunsheng Feng , Shi Shu , Jinchao Xu , Chen-Song Zhang

We propose a new and simple discretization, named the Modified Virtual Grid Difference (MVGD), for numerical approximation of the Laplace-Beltrami (LB) operator on manifolds sampled by point clouds. The key observation is that both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Meng Wang , Shingyu Leung , Hongkai Zhao

Finite Difference methods (FD) are one of the oldest and simplest methods for solving partial differential equations (PDE). Block Finite Difference methods (BFD) are FD methods in which the domain is divided into blocks, or cells,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Adi Ditkowski , Anne Le Blanc , Chi-Wang Shu