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We introduce a unified framework for computing approximately-optimal preconditioners for solving linear and non-linear systems of equations. We demonstrate that the condition number minimization problem, under structured transformations…

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Primal-Dual Interior-Point methods are capable of solving constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances in a fast and robust manner. The derivatives of the primal-dual solution with respect to the problem matrices can be…

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We study the iterative solution of linear systems of equations arising from stochastic Galerkin finite element discretizations of saddle point problems. We focus on the Stokes model with random data parametrized by uniformly distributed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Christopher Müller , Sebastian Ullmann , Jens Lang

We present a monolithic geometric multigrid preconditioner for solving fluid-solid interaction problems in Stokes limit. The problems are discretized by a spatially adaptive high-order meshless method, the generalized moving least squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Zisheng Ye , Xiaozhe Hu , Wenxiao Pan

We present a new algorithm for convex separable quadratic programming (QP) called Nys-IP-PMM, a regularized interior-point solver that uses low-rank structure to accelerate solution of the Newton system. The algorithm combines the interior…

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In this study, we present a novel computational framework that integrates the finite volume method with graph neural networks to address the challenges in Physics-Informed Neural Networks(PINNs). Our approach leverages the flexibility of…

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The Poisson pressure solve resulting from the spectral element discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation requires fast, robust, and scalable preconditioning. In the current work, a parallel scaling study of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Malachi Phillips , Stefan Kerkemeier , Paul Fischer

In this paper we address the numerical solution of the quadratic optimal transport problem in its dynamical form, the so-called Benamou-Brenier formulation. When solved using interior point methods, the main computational bottleneck is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Enrico Facca , Gabriele Todeschi , Andrea Natale , Michele Benzi

We study preconditioning techniques for discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of isotropic linear elasticity problems in primal (displacement) formulation. We propose subspace correction methods based on a splitting of the vector valued…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Ivan Georgiev , Johannes Kraus , Ludmil Zikatanov

We introduce a general framework for large-scale model-based derivative-free optimization based on iterative minimization within random subspaces. We present a probabilistic worst-case complexity analysis for our method, where in particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Coralia Cartis , Lindon Roberts

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In this work, we propose a generalized alternating nonlinear generalized minimal residual method (GA-NGMRES) to accelerate first-order optimization schemes for PDE-constrained optimization problems governed by transport equations. We apply…

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We introduce and analyze two-level and multi-level preconditioners for a family of Interior Penalty (IP) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations of second order elliptic problems with large jumps in the diffusion coefficient. Our…

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We consider a nonlinear eigenvalue problem (NEP) arising from absorbing boundary conditions in the study of a partial differential equation (PDE) describing a waveguide. We propose a new computational approach for this large scale NEP based…

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A numerical method for coupled 3D-1D problems with discontinuous solutions at the interfaces is derived and discussed. This extends a previous work on the subject where only continuous solutions were considered. Thanks to properly defined…

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Mechanistic knowledge about the physical world is virtually always expressed via partial differential equations (PDEs). Recently, there has been a surge of interest in probabilistic PDE solvers -- Bayesian statistical models mostly based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Tim Weiland , Marvin Pförtner , Philipp Hennig

The solution of sparse linear systems constitutes the dominant computational bottleneck in interior point methods (IPMs), frequently consuming over 70% of the total solution time. As optimization problems scale to millions of variables,…

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