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We present a new class of preconditioned iterative methods for solving linear systems of the form $Ax = b$. Our methods are based on constructing a low-rank Nystr\"om approximation to $A$ using sparse random matrix sketching. This…

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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 describe a parallel solver for the discretized weakly singular space-time boundary integral equation of the spatially two-dimensional heat equation. The global space-time nature of the system matrices leads to improved parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Stefan Dohr , Michal Merta , Günther Of , Olaf Steinbach , Jan Zapletal

We deal with interval parametric systems of linear equations and the goal is to solve such systems, which basically comes down to finding an enclosure for a parametric solution set. Obviously we want this enclosure to be as tight as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Iwona Skalna , Milan Hladík

Optimization has been widely used to generate smooth trajectories for motion planning. However, existing trajectory optimization methods show weakness when dealing with large-scale long trajectories. Recent advances in parallel computing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jiajun Yu , Nanhe Chen , Guodong Liu , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

Many state-of-the-art Segment Routing (SR) Traffic Engineering (TE) algorithms rely on Linear Program (LP)-based optimization. However, the poor scalability of the latter and the resulting high computation times impose severe restrictions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alexander Brundiers , Timmy Schüller , Nils Aschenbruck

We study the solution of large symmetric positive-definite linear systems in a matrix-free setting with a limited iteration budget. We focus on the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) method with spectral preconditioning. Spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Youssef Diouane , Selime Gürol , Oussama Mouhtal , Dominique Orban

The rise of parallel computing hardware has made it increasingly important to understand which nonlinear state space models can be efficiently parallelized. Recent advances like DEER (arXiv:2309.12252) and DeepPCR (arXiv:2309.16318) recast…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Xavier Gonzalez , Leo Kozachkov , David M. Zoltowski , Kenneth L. Clarkson , Scott W. Linderman

A class of preconditioners is introduced to enhance geometry optimisation and transition state search of molecular systems. We start from the Hessian of molecular mechanical terms, decompose it and retain only its positive definite part to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Letif Mones , Gabor Csanyi , Christoph Ortner

Efficient solutions of large-scale, ill-conditioned and indefinite algebraic equations are ubiquitously needed in numerous computational fields, including multiphysics simulations, machine learning, and data science. Because of their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiaoye Sherry Li , Yang Liu

We propose a two-level nested preconditioned iterative scheme for solving sparse linear systems of equations in which the coefficient matrix is symmetric and indefinite with relatively small number of negative eigenvalues. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Murat Manguoglu , Volker Mehrmann

The backtracking line-search is an effective technique to automatically tune the step-size in smooth optimization. It guarantees similar performance to using the theoretically optimal step-size. Many approaches have been developed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Frederik Kunstner , Victor S. Portella , Mark Schmidt , Nick Harvey

When solving linear systems with nonsymmetric Toeplitz or multilevel Toeplitz matrices using Krylov subspace methods, the coefficient matrix may be symmetrized. The preconditioned MINRES method can then be applied to this symmetrized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Jennifer Pestana

The goal of this work is to present a fast and viable approach for the numerical solution of the high-contrast state problems arising in topology optimization. The optimization process is iterative, and the gradients are obtained by an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Miguel Zambrano , Sintya Serrano , Boyan S. Lazarov , Juan Galvis

We proposed a parallel-in-time method based on preconditioner for Biot's consolidation model in poroelasticity. In order to achieve a fast and stable convergence for the matrix system of the Biot's model, we design two preconditioners with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Zeyuan Zhou , Huipeng Gu , Guoliang Ju , Wei Xing

In this article we present a new multigrid preconditioner for the linear systems arising in the semismooth Newton method solution of certain control-constrained, quadratic distributed optimal control problems. Using a piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Andrei Draganescu , Jyoti Saraswat

We present a successive constraint approach that makes it possible to cheaply solve large-scale linear matrix inequalities for a large number of parameter values. The efficiency of our method is made possible by an offline/online…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Robert O'Connor

The discretization of constrained nonlinear optimization problems arising in the field of topology optimization yields algebraic systems which are challenging to solve in practice, due to pathological ill-conditioning, strong nonlinearity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Michal Kocvara , Daniel Loghin , James Turner

Many clustering applications in machine learning and data mining rely on solving metric-constrained optimization problems. These problems are characterized by $O(n^3)$ constraints that enforce triangle inequalities on distance variables…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Cameron Ruggles , Nate Veldt , David F. Gleich

Purpose: Design of a preconditioner for fast and efficient parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions. Theory: Parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions become time consuming when the problem size or the number of…

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