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In this paper, we propose an inexact block coordinate descent algorithm for large-scale nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems. At each iteration, a particular block variable is selected and updated by inexactly solving the original…

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Transformers have become the cornerstone of modern large-scale language models, but their reliance on softmax attention poses a computational bottleneck at both training and inference. Recurrent models offer high efficiency, but compressing…

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We introduce a new algorithm for finding the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of Hermitian matrices within a specified region, based upon the LANSO algorithm of Parlett and Scott. It uses selective reorthogonalization to avoid the duplication…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Johnson , A. D. Kennedy

We propose a thick-restart block Lanczos method, which is an extension of the thick-restart Lanczos method with the block algorithm, as an eigensolver of the large-scale shell-model calculations. This method has two advantages over the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Noritaka Shimizu , Takahiro Mizusaki , Yutaka Utsuno , Yusuke Tsunoda

We consider the approximation of $B^T (A+sI)^{-1} B$ where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is large, symmetric positive definite, and has a dense spectrum, and $B\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$, $p\ll n$. Our target application is the computation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jörn Zimmerling , Vladimir Druskin

Current uncertainty quantification is memory and compute expensive, which hinders practical uptake. To counter, we develop Sketched Lanczos Uncertainty (SLU): an architecture-agnostic uncertainty score that can be applied to pre-trained…

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Low-rank approximations of original samples are playing more and more an important role in many recently proposed mathematical models from data science. A natural and initial requirement is that these representations inherit original…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Zhigang Jia , Xuan Liu , Mei-Xiang Zhao

The increasing imbalance between the computing capabilities of individual nodes and the internode bandwidth makes it highly desirable for any Lattice QCD algorithm to minimize the amount of internode communication. One of the relatively new…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-09 Yong-Chull Jang , Chulwoo Jung

Hutchinson's method estimates the trace of a matrix function $f(D)$ stochastically using samples $\tau^Hf(D)\tau$, where the components of the random vectors $\tau$ obey an isotropic probability distribution. Estimating the trace of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-03-22 Andreas Frommer , Mostafa Nasr Khalil

The computation of the Log-determinant of large, sparse, symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices is essential in many scientific computational fields such as numerical linear algebra and machine learning. In low dimensions, Cholesky is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Verlon Roel Mbingui , Antoine Tambue , Issa Karambal

Nonsmooth composite optimization with orthogonality constraints has a wide range of applications in statistical learning and data science. However, this problem is challenging due to its nonsmooth objective and computationally expensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Ganzhao Yuan

The Iterative Hard Thresholding (IHT) algorithm has been considered extensively as an effective deterministic algorithm for solving sparse optimizations. The IHT algorithm benefits from the information of the batch (full) gradient at each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Saeed Damadi , Jinglai Shen

We investigate the solution of low-rank matrix approximation problems using the truncated SVD. For this purpose, we develop and optimize GPU implementations for the randomized SVD and a blocked variant of the Lanczos approach. Our work…

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In recent years, Bi-Level Optimization (BLO) techniques have received extensive attentions from both learning and vision communities. A variety of BLO models in complex and practical tasks are of non-convex follower structure in nature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Risheng Liu , Yaohua Liu , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

This work introduces a method for determining the energy spectrum of lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) by applying the Lanczos algorithm to the transfer matrix and using a bootstrap generalization of the Cullum-Willoughby method to…

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We present an efficient method for computing dominant eigenvalues of large, nonsymmetric, diagonalizable matrices based on an adaptive block Lanczos algorithm combined with Chebyshev polynomial filtering. The proposed approach improves…

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We present and analyze an algorithm for optimizing smooth and convex or strongly convex objectives using minibatch stochastic gradient estimates. The algorithm is optimal with respect to its dependence on both the minibatch size and minimum…

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Current quantization methods for LLMs predominantly rely on block-wise structures to maintain efficiency, often at the cost of representational flexibility. In this work, we demonstrate that element-wise quantization can be made as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Pingzhi Tang , Ruijie Zhou , Fanxu Meng , Wenjie Pei , Muhan Zhang

We study the stability of the Lanczos algorithm run on problems whose eigenvector empirical spectral distribution is near to a reference measure with well-behaved orthogonal polynomials. We give a backwards stability result which can be…

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