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Monte Carlo simulation is often used for the reliability assessment of power systems, but it converges slowly when the system is complex. Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) can be applied to speed up computation without compromises on model…

Computation · Statistics 2022-07-12 Ensieh Sharifnia , Simon Tindemans

Research on sixth-generation (6G) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) increasingly depends on multimodal datasets. These datasets need to jointly characterize wireless propagation, onboard sensing, and platform mobility. Existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Kang Yan , Yuqi Cao , Jiaqi Li , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

Event generators simulate particle interactions using Monte Carlo techniques, providing the primary connection between experiment and theory in experimental high energy physics. These software packages, which are the first step in the…

We propose a compact and efficient tetrahedral mesh representation to improve the ray-tracing performance. We reorder tetrahedral mesh data using a space-filling curve to improve cache locality. Most importantly, we propose an efficient ray…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Aytek Aman , Serkan Demirci , Uğur Güdükbay

Simulating event streams from 3D scenes has become a common practice in event-based vision research, as it meets the demand for large-scale, high temporal frequency data without setting up expensive hardware devices or undertaking extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenyang Li , Xiaoyang Bai , Jinfan Lu , Pengfei Shen , Edmund Y. Lam , Yifan Peng

While beam search improves speech recognition quality over greedy decoding, standard implementations are slow, often sequential, and CPU-bound. To fully leverage modern hardware capabilities, we present a novel open-source FlexCTC toolkit…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Lilit Grigoryan , Vladimir Bataev , Nikolay Karpov , Andrei Andrusenko , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

Computer vision applications constitute one of the key drivers for embedded multicore architectures. Although the number of available cores is increasing in new architectures, designing an application to maximize the utilization of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Vítor Schwambach , Sébastien Cleyet-Merle , Alain Issard , Stéphane Mancini

Penetration depth calculation quantifies the extent of overlap between two objects and is crucial in fields like simulations, the metaverse, and robotics. Recognizing its significance, efforts have been made to accelerate this computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 YoungWoo Kim , Sungmin Kwon , Duksu Kim

Simulating a single trajectory of a dynamical system under some state-dependent policy is a core bottleneck in policy optimization (PO) algorithms. The many inherently serial policy evaluations that must be performed in a single simulation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Vivek Farias , Joren Gijsbrechts , Aryan Khojandi , Tianyi Peng , Andrew Zheng

Ray tracing algorithm simulates the physical movements of a huge amount of rays to render a high quality image, in which the tracing procedure for each ray can be implemented in parallel. By leveraging the inherent parallelism of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Xi Lu , Hongwei Lin

This paper describes simulation analyses on beam and laser (X-ray)-driven accelerations in effective nanotube models obtained from Vsim and EPOCH codes. Experimental setups to detect wakefields are also outlined with accelerator facilities…

An essential component in proton radiotherapy is the algorithm to calculate the radiation dose to be delivered to the patient. The most common dose algorithms are fast but they are approximate analytical approaches. However their level of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Pablo P Yepes , Dragan Mirkovic , Phillip J Taddei

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations play a pivotal role in diverse scientific and engineering domains, with applications ranging from nuclear physics to materials science. Harnessing the computational power of high-performance computing (HPC)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yehonatan Fridman , Guy Tamir , Uri Steinitz , Gal Oren

The demise of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling has revived interest in specialized computer architectures and accelerators. Verification and testing of this hardware depend heavily upon cycle-accurate simulation of register-transfer-level…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Mahyar Emami , Sahand Kashani , Keisuke Kamahori , Mohammad Sepehr Pourghannad , Ritik Raj , James R. Larus

The realized stochastic volatility (RSV) model that utilizes the realized volatility as additional information has been proposed to infer volatility of financial time series. We consider the Bayesian inference of the RSV model by the Hybrid…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-28 Tetsuya Takaishi

Computing on graphics processing units (GPUs) has become standard in scientific computing, allowing for incredible performance gains over classical CPUs for many computational methods. As GPUs were originally designed for 3D rendering, they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Algis David , Bérenger Bramas

High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms allow scientists to model computationally intensive algorithms. HPC clusters increasingly use General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) as accelerators; FPGAs provide an attractive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Syed Waqar Nabi , Saji N. Hameed , Wim Vanderbauwhede

In this study, we address the challenge of obstacle avoidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) through an innovative composite imitation learning approach that combines Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) with Behavior Cloning (BC) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Harsh Bansal , Vyom Goyal , Bhaskar Joshi , Akhil Gupta , Harikumar Kandath

This paper presents a set of simple and intuitive robot collision detection algorithms that show substantial scaling improvements for high geometric complexity and large numbers of collision queries by leveraging hardware-accelerated ray…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Sizhe Sui , Luis Sentis , Andrew Bylard

Monte Carlo (MC) method has been recognized the most accurate dose calculation method for radiotherapy. However, its extremely long computation time impedes clinical applications. Recently, a lot of efforts have been made to realize fast MC…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Zhen Tian , Feng Shi , Michael Folkerts , Nan Qin , Steve B. Jiang , Xun Jia