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The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art algorithm for causal structure discovery on observational data. It can be computationally expensive in the worst case due to the conditional independence tests are performed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kai Zhang , Chao Tian , Kun Zhang , Todd Johnson , Xiaoqian Jiang

We study motion planning algorithms for collision free control of multiple objects in the presence of moving obstacles. We compute the topological complexity of algorithms solving this problem. We apply topological tools and use information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Farber , Mark Grant , Sergey Yuzvinsky

Planning collision-free motions for robots with many degrees of freedom is challenging in environments with complex obstacle geometries. Recent work introduced the idea of speeding up the planning by encoding prior experience of successful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Johannes Tenhumberg , Darius Burschka , Berthold Bäuml

The analysis of manifold-valued data requires efficient tools from Riemannian geometry to cope with the computational complexity at stake. This complexity arises from the always-increasing dimension of the data, and the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Maxime Louis , Alexandre Bône , Benjamin Charlier , Stanley Durrleman

We address the problem of planning robot motions in constrained configuration spaces where the constraints change throughout the motion. The problem is formulated as a fixed sequence of intersecting manifolds, which the robot needs to…

This paper presents a novel approach, named the Group Marching Tree (GMT*) algorithm, to planning on GPUs at rates amenable to application within control loops, allowing planning in real-world settings via repeated computation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Marco Pavone

We present the GPU implementation of the general-purpose interior-point solver Clarabel for convex optimization problems with conic constraints. We introduce a mixed parallel computing strategy that processes linear constraints first, then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yuwen Chen , Danny Tse , Parth Nobel , Paul Goulart , Stephen Boyd

Bayesian optimization has emerged as a strong candidate tool for global optimization of functions with expensive evaluation costs. However, due to the dynamic nature of research in Bayesian approaches, and the evolution of computing…

Applications · Statistics 2018-08-24 Ran Rubin

Recent developments have created differentiable physics simulators designed for machine learning pipelines that can be accelerated on a GPU. While these can simulate biomechanical models, these opportunities have not been exploited for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 R. James Cotton

Models used in modern planning problems to simulate outcomes of real world action executions are becoming increasingly complex, ranging from simulators that do physics-based reasoning to precomputed analytical motion primitives. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Anirudh Vemula , Yash Oza , J. Andrew Bagnell , Maxim Likhachev

Model selection in Gaussian processes scales prohibitively with the size of the training dataset, both in time and memory. While many approximations exist, all incur inevitable approximation error. Recent work accounts for this error in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jonathan Wenger , Kaiwen Wu , Philipp Hennig , Jacob R. Gardner , Geoff Pleiss , John P. Cunningham

Graphics Processing Units allow for running massively parallel applications offloading the CPU from computationally intensive resources, however GPUs have a limited amount of memory. In this paper a trie compression algorithm for massively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Xavier Bellekens , Amar Seeam , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson

We present scalable hybrid-parallel algorithms for training large-scale 3D convolutional neural networks. Deep learning-based emerging scientific workflows often require model training with large, high-dimensional samples, which can make…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yosuke Oyama , Naoya Maruyama , Nikoli Dryden , Erin McCarthy , Peter Harrington , Jan Balewski , Satoshi Matsuoka , Peter Nugent , Brian Van Essen

This paper describes a scalable active learning pipeline prototype for large-scale brain mapping that leverages high performance computing power. It enables high-throughput evaluation of algorithm results, which, after human review, are…

Computing on graphics processors is maybe one of the most important developments in computational science to happen in decades. Not since the arrival of the Beowulf cluster, which combined open source software with commodity hardware to…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Felipe A. Cruz , Simon K. Layton , Lorena A. Barba

Parallel self-assembly is an efficient approach to accelerate the assembly process for modular robots. However, these approaches cannot accommodate complicated environments with obstacles, which restricts their applications. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Lianxin Zhang , Yihan Huang , Zhongzhong Cao , Yang Jiao , Huihuan Qian

We propose efficient parallel algorithms and implementations on shared memory architectures of LU factorization over a finite field. Compared to the corresponding numerical routines, we have identified three main difficulties specific to…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Thierry Gautier , Clément Pernet , Ziad Sultan

As incremental Structure from Motion algorithms become effective, a good sparse point cloud representing the map of the scene becomes available frame-by-frame. From the 3D Delaunay triangulation of these points, state-of-the-art algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

Recent works demonstrate the advantages of hardware rasterization for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in forward-pass rendering through fast GPU-optimized graphics and fixed memory footprint. However, extending these benefits to backward-pass…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yitian Yuan , Qianyue He

The Maximum Common Subgraph is a computationally challenging problem with countless practical applications. Even if it has been long proven NP-hard, its importance still motivates searching for exact solutions. This work starts by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Andrea Marcelli , Stefano Quer , Giovanni Squillero