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Diffusion language models (DLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models for faster inference via parallel token generation. We provide a rigorous foundation for this advantage by formalizing a model of parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Haozhe Jiang , Nika Haghtalab , Lijie Chen

Parallel computation enables multiple processors to execute different parts of a task simultaneously, improving processing speed and efficiency. In quantum computing, parallel gate implementation involves executing gates independently in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Boris Arseniev

Recently, diffusion models have achieved significant advances in vision, text, and robotics. However, they still face slow generation speeds due to sequential denoising processes. To address this, a parallel sampling method based on Picard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Junhyuk So , Jiwoong Shin , Chaeyeon Jang , Eunhyeok Park

We develop a novel parallel decomposition strategy for unweighted, undirected graphs, based on growing disjoint connected clusters from batches of centers progressively selected from yet uncovered nodes. With respect to similar previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

We propose the design and an implementation of a bulk-parallel external memory priority queue to take advantage of both shared-memory parallelism and high external memory transfer speeds to parallel disks. To achieve higher performance by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-03 Timo Bingmann , Thomas Keh , Peter Sanders

While generally considered computationally expensive, Uncertainty Quantification using Monte Carlo sampling remains beneficial for applications with uncertainties of high dimension. As an extension of the naive Monte Carlo method, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Robert Hahn , Sebastian Schöps

Persistent homology is a crucial invariant that is used in many areas to understand data. The $O(N^4)$ run time is a hindrance to its use on most large datasets. We give a parallelization method to utilize multi-core machines and clusters.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Michael G. Rawson

This work studies heterogeneous Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning (MORL), where objectives can differ sharply in temporal frequency. Such heterogeneity allows dense objectives to dominate learning, while sparse long-horizon rewards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Finn van der Knaap , Kejiang Qian , Zheng Xu , Fengxiang He

We study nonstationary Online Linear Programming (OLP), where $n$ orders arrive sequentially with reward-resource consumption pairs that form a sequence of independent, but not necessarily identically distributed, random vectors. At the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoran Xu , Owen Shen , Peter Glynn , Yinyu Ye , Patrick Jaillet

Ray tracing algorithm is a category of rendering algorithms that calculate the color of pixels by simulating the physical movements of a huge amount of rays and calculating their energies, which can be implemented in parallel. Meanwhile,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Xi Lu , Hongwei Lin

A central approach to algorithmic derandomization is to construct probability distributions with small support that "fool" randomized algorithms, often enabling efficient parallel (NC) implementations. An abstraction of this idea is fooling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jeff Giliberti , David G. Harris

This paper presents the design and analysis of parallel approximation algorithms for facility-location problems, including $\NC$ and $\RNC$ algorithms for (metric) facility location, $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. These problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-11 Guy E. Blelloch , Kanat Tangwongsan

A distributed-memory parallelization strategy for the density matrix renormalization group is proposed for cases where correlation functions are required. This new strategy has substantial improvements with respect to previous works. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-04-20 Julian Rincon , D. J. Garcia , K. Hallberg

We consider the problem of maximizing the multilinear extension of a submodular function subject a single matroid constraint or multiple packing constraints with a small number of adaptive rounds of evaluation queries. We obtain the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen , Adrian Vladu

In this work, we study how to use sampling to speed up mechanisms for answering adaptive queries into datasets without reducing the accuracy of those mechanisms. This is important to do when both the datasets and the number of queries asked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Benjamin Fish , Lev Reyzin , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

We describe two parallel algorithms for line opacity calculations based on a local file and on a global file approach. The performance and scalability of both approaches is discussed for different test cases and very different parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Peter H. Hauschildt , David K. Lowenthal , E. Baron

One typical use case of large-scale distributed computing in data centers is to decompose a computation job into many independent tasks and run them in parallel on different machines, sometimes known as the "embarrassingly parallel"…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Da Wang , Gauri Joshi , Gregory Wornell

As multicore computing is now standard, it seems irresponsible for constraints researchers to ignore the implications of it. Researchers need to address a number of issues to exploit parallelism, such as: investigating which constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Ian P. Gent , Ciaran McCreesh , Ian Miguel , Neil C. A. Moore , Peter Nightingale , Patrick Prosser , Chris Unsworth

We derive a parallel sampling algorithm for computational inverse problems that present an unknown linear forcing term and a vector of nonlinear parameters to be recovered. It is assumed that the data is noisy and that the linear part of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Darko Volkov

We present a methodology for parallel acceleration of learning in the presence of matrix orthogonality and unitarity constraints of interest in several branches of machine learning. We show how an apparently sequential elementary rotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Firas Hamze