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Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Several variants have been proposed to accommodate parallel architectures. GPUs,…

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Optimal power flow (OPF) is one of the most important optimization problems in the energy industry. In its simplest form, OPF attempts to find the optimal power that the generators within the grid have to produce to satisfy a given demand.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Damian Owerko , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro

A fast and scalable iterative methodology for solving the security-constrained optimal power flow (SCOPF) problem is proposed using problem decomposition and the inverse matrix modification lemma. The SCOPF formulation tackles system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Matias Vistnes , Vijay Venu Vadlamudi , Oddbjørn Gjerde

In this paper we provide an algorithm which given any $m$-edge $n$-vertex directed graph with integer capacities at most $U$ computes a maximum $s$-$t$ flow for any vertices $s$ and $t$ in $m^{11/8+o(1)}U^{1/4}$ time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the simulation of fluid flow undertaken with the use of computational hardware. The underlying equations are computationally challenging to solve and necessitate high performance computing (HPC) to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zachary Cooper-Baldock , Brenda Vara Almirall , Kiao Inthavong

Spatial Branch and Bound (B&B) algorithms are widely used for solving nonconvex problems to global optimality, yet they remain computationally expensive. Though some works have been carried out to speed up B&B via CPU parallelization, GPU…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Hongzhen Zhang , Tim Kerkenhoff , Neil Kichler , Manuel Dahmen , Alexander Mitsos , Uwe Naumann , Dominik Bongartz

This paper proposes a learning-based approach to accelerate the interior-point method (IPM) for solving optimal power flow (OPF) problems by learning the structure of the IPM central path from its early stable iterations. Unlike traditional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Farshad Amani , Amin Kargarian , Ramachandran Vaidyanathan

Recent advances in multi and many-core processors have led to significant improvements in the performance of scientific computing applications. However, the addition of a large number of complex cores have also increased the overall power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Akash Dutta , Jee Choi , Ali Jannesari

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized AI applications, yet their enormous computational demands severely limit deployment and real-time performance. Quantization methods can help reduce computational costs, however, attaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shaobo Ma , Chao Fang , Haikuo Shao , Zhongfeng Wang

This paper investigates the cooperative planning and control problem for multiple connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in different scenarios. In the existing literature, most of the methods suffer from significant problems in computational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xiaoxue Zhang , Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Sunan Huang , Frank L. Lewis , Tong Heng Lee

Optimal power flow (OPF) is the central optimization problem in electric power grids. Although solved routinely in the course of power grid operations, it is known to be strongly NP-hard in general, and weakly NP-hard over tree networks. In…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Michael Chertkov , Sidhant Misra , Marc Vuffray

We consider the all-pairs multicommodity network flow problem on a network with capacitated edges. The usual treatment keeps track of a separate flow for each source-destination pair on each edge; we rely on a more efficient formulation in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Fangzhao Zhang , Stephen Boyd

Dynamic Parallelism (DP) is a runtime feature of the GPU programming model that allows GPU threads to execute additional GPU kernels, recursively. Apart from making the programming of parallel hierarchical patterns easier, DP can also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Felipe A. Quezada , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Miguel Romero , Cristhian Aguilera

Parallel algorithms on CPU and GPU are implemented for the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme and their performances are investigated and compared by a two dimensional channel flow case. The parallel CPU algorithm has a one dimensional block…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Jizhou Liu , Fang Q. Hu , Xiaodong Li

In this work we present CppFlow - a novel and performant planner for the Cartesian Path Planning problem, which finds valid trajectories up to 129x faster than current methods, while also succeeding on more difficult problems where others…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jeremy Morgan , David Millard , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Solving inverse problems and achieving statistical rigour in landscape evolution models requires running many model realizations. Parallel computation is necessary to achieve this in a reasonable time. However, no previous algorithm is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Richard Barnes

This paper introduces a distributed operational solution for coordinating integrated transmission-distribution (ITD) systems regarding data privacy. To tackle the nonconvex challenges of AC optimal power flow (OPF) problems, our research…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Xinliang Dai , Junyi Zhai , Yuning Jiang , Yi Guo , Colin N. Jones , Veit Hagenmeyer

Consider a polynomial optimisation problem, whose instances vary continuously over time. We propose to use a coordinate-descent algorithm for solving such time-varying optimisation problems. In particular, we focus on relaxations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Jie Liu , Jakub Marecek , Andrea Simonetto , Martin Takac

This paper presents a framework that supports the implementation of parallel solutions for the widespread parametric maximum flow computational routines used in image segmentation algorithms. The framework is based on supergraphs, a special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Vlad Olaru , Mihai Florea , Cristian Sminchisescu

Convex relaxation methods have been studied and used extensively to obtain an optimal solution to the optimal power flow (OPF) problem. Meanwhile, convex relaxed power flow equations are also prerequisites for efficiently solving a wide…

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