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The Nystr\"om methods have been popular techniques for scalable kernel based learning. They approximate explicit, low-dimensional feature mappings for kernel functions from the pairwise comparisons with the training data. However, Nystr\"om…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mert Al , Thee Chanyaswad , Sun-Yuan Kung

This paper introduces a novel optimization algorithm designed for nonlinear least-squares problems. The method is derived by preconditioning the gradient descent direction using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the Jacobian. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Zhipeng Chang , Wenrui Hao , Nian Liu

In this work, we propose a simple yet generic preconditioned Krylov subspace method for a large class of nonsymmetric block Toeplitz all-at-once systems arising from discretizing evolutionary partial differential equations. Namely, our main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Sean Hon , Po Yin Fung , Jiamei Dong , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

Nonlinear conjugate gradients are among the most popular techniques for solving continuous optimization problems. Although these schemes have long been studied from a global convergence standpoint, their worst-case complexity properties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Rémi Chan--Renous-Legoubin , Clément W. Royer

In this paper, we present a first-order projection-free method, namely, the universal conditional gradient sliding (UCGS) method, for solving $\varepsilon$-approximate solutions to convex differentiable optimization problems. For objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Yuyuan Ouyang , Trevor Squires

The authors propose a recycling Krylov subspace method for the solution of a sequence of self-adjoint linear systems. Such problems appear, for example, in the Newton process for solving nonlinear equations. Ritz vectors are automatically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 André Gaul , Nico Schlömer

This paper deals with the definition and optimization of augmentation spaces for faster convergence of the conjugate gradient method in the resolution of sequences of linear systems. Using advanced convergence results from the literature,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-01 Pierre Gosselet , Christian Rey , Julien Pebrel

Numerical solution of discrete PDEs corresponding to saddle point problems is highly relevant to physical systems such as Stokes flow. However, scaling up numerical solvers for such systems is often met with challenges in efficiency and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Yutian Tao , Eftychios Sifakis

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer an enormous flexibility regarding local grid refinement and variation of polynomial degrees for a variety of different problem classes. With a focus on diffusion problems, we consider DG…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Kolja Brix , Claudio Canuto , Wolfgang Dahmen

Least squares method is one of the simplest and most popular techniques applied in data fitting, imaging processing and high dimension data analysis. The classic methods like QR and SVD decomposition for solving least squares problems has a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Long Chen , Huiwen Wu

This Paper conducts a thorough simulation study to assess the effectiveness of various acceleration techniques designed to enhance the conjugate gradient algorithm, which is used for solving large linear systems to accelerate Bayesian…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-06 Zhihao Zhou

The novel contribution of this paper relies in the proposal of a fully implicit numerical method designed for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations, in its convergence/stability analysis, and in the study of the related computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Matteo Semplice , Marco Donatelli , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

We propose two novel conditional gradient-based methods for solving structured stochastic convex optimization problems with a large number of linear constraints. Instances of this template naturally arise from SDP-relaxations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Ahmet Alacaoglu , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

We present a new class of preconditioned iterative methods for solving linear systems of the form $Ax = b$. Our methods are based on constructing a low-rank Nystr\"om approximation to $A$ using sparse random matrix sketching. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Michał Dereziński , Christopher Musco , Jiaming Yang

We propose an augmented Lagrangian-based preconditioner to accelerate the convergence of Krylov subspace methods applied to linear systems of equations with a block three-by-three structure such as those arising from mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Fatemeh P. A. Beik , Michele Benzi

Interior point methods solve small to medium sized problems to high accuracy in a reasonable amount of time. However, for larger problems as well as stochastic problems, one needs to use first-order methods such as stochastic gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Reza Takapoui , Hamid Javadi

The solution of linear inverse problems when the unknown parameters outnumber data requires addressing the problem of a nontrivial null space. After restating the problem within the Bayesian framework, a priori information about the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Daniela Calvetti , Francesca Pitolli , Erkki Somersalo , Barbara Vantaggi

We propose a general random subspace framework for unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems that requires a weak probabilistic assumption on the subspace gradient, which we show to be satisfied by various random matrix ensembles, such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Coralia Cartis , Jaroslav Fowkes , Zhen Shao

We design two classes of ultra-fast meta-solvers for linear systems arising after discretizing PDEs by combining neural operators with either simple iterative solvers, e.g., Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel, or with Krylov methods, e.g., GMRES and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Youngkyu Lee , Shanqing Liu , Jerome Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

We study preconditioned gradient-based optimization methods where the preconditioning matrix has block-diagonal form. Such a structural constraint comes with the advantage that the update computation is block-separable and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Celestine Mendler-Dünner , Aurelien Lucchi