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This paper presents a matrix-free multigrid method for solving the Stokes problem, discretized using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming discontinuous Galerkin methods. We employ a Schur complement method combined with the fast diagonalization…

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This paper introduces the Multiple Greedy Quasi-Newton (MGSR1-SP) method, a novel approach to solving strongly-convex-strongly-concave (SCSC) saddle point problems. Our method enhances the approximation of the squared indefinite Hessian…

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Preconditioners are generally essential for fast convergence in the iterative solution of linear systems of equations. However, the computation of a good preconditioner can be expensive. So, while solving a sequence of many linear systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Arielle Grim-McNally , Eric de Sturler , Serkan Gugercin

Despite hundreds of papers on preconditioned linear systems of equations, there remains a significant lack of comprehensive performance benchmarks comparing various preconditioners for solving symmetric positive definite (SPD) systems. In…

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Saddle points play important roles as the transition states of activated process in gradient system driven by energy functional. However, for the same energy functional, the saddle points, as well as other stationary points, are different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Shuting Gu , Ling Lin , Xiang Zhou

A new computational strategy is proposed to approximate, with a simple but accurate expression, the Maier- Saupe free energy for nematic order. Instead of the traditional approach of expanding the free energy with a truncated Taylor series,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-22 Ezequiel R. Soule , Alejandro D. Rey

Nonconvex optimization problems such as the ones in training deep neural networks suffer from a phenomenon called saddle point proliferation. This means that there are a vast number of high error saddle points present in the loss function.…

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When solving linear systems arising from PDE discretizations, iterative methods (such as Conjugate Gradient, GMRES, or MINRES) are often the only practical choice. To converge in a small number of iterations, however, they have to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Bazyli Klockiewicz , Eric Darve

We present improved approximation bounds for the Moore-Penrose inverses of banded matrices, where the bandedness is induced by a metric on the index set. We show that the pseudoinverse of a banded matrix can be approximated by another…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Sungho Shin , Wallace Gian Yion Tan , Mihai Anitescu

Adaptive regularization methods pre-multiply a descent direction by a preconditioning matrix. Due to the large number of parameters of machine learning problems, full-matrix preconditioning methods are prohibitively expensive. We show how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Naman Agarwal , Brian Bullins , Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan , Karan Singh , Cyril Zhang , Yi Zhang

The first order condition of the constrained minimization problem leads to a saddle point problem. A multigrid method using a multiplicative Schwarz smoother for saddle point problems can thus be interpreted as a successive subspace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Long Chen

Model reduction plays a critical role in system control, with established methods such as balanced truncation widely used for linear systems. However, extending these methods to nonlinear settings, particularly polynomial dynamical systems…

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We present a field-of-values (FOV) analysis for preconditioned nonsymmetric saddle-point linear systems, where zero is included in the field of values of the matrix. We rely on recent results of Crouzeix and Greenbaum [Spectral sets:…

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In this paper, we propose a descent method for composite optimization problems with linear operators. Specifically, we first design a structure-exploiting preconditioner tailored to the linear operator so that the resulting preconditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jian Chen , Xinmin Yang

We present a fast direct solver for structured linear systems based on multilevel matrix compression. Using the recently developed interpolative decomposition of a low-rank matrix in a recursive manner, we embed an approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Kenneth L. Ho , Leslie Greengard

In this paper, we propose a new stabilizer free and pressure robust WG method for the Stokes equations with super-convergence on polytopal mesh in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. Convergence rates with one order higher than the…

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Linear systems arise in generating samples and in calculating observables in lattice quantum chromodynamics~(QCD). Solving the Hermitian positive definite systems, which are sparse but ill-conditioned, involves using iterative methods, such…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-15 Yixuan Sun , Srinivas Eswar , Yin Lin , William Detmold , Phiala Shanahan , Xiaoye Li , Yang Liu , Prasanna Balaprakash

Matrix and tensor completion aim to recover a low-rank matrix / tensor from limited observations and have been commonly used in applications such as recommender systems and multi-relational data mining. A state-of-the-art matrix completion…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok

We present an efficient preconditioner for linear problems $A x=y$. It guarantees monotonic convergence of the memory-efficient fixed-point iteration for all accretive systems of the form $A = L + V$, where $L$ is an approximation of $A$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Tom Vettenburg , Ivo M. Vellekoop

We develop a robust and efficient iterative method for hyper-elastodynamics based on a novel continuum formulation recently developed. The numerical scheme is constructed based on the variational multiscale formulation and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Ju Liu , Alison L. Marsden