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This paper presents a Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) acceleration method of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations. Unlike the previous GPU parallelization of explicit kinetic schemes, this work features a fast converging…

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Incoherent dedispersion is a computationally intensive problem that appears frequently in pulsar and transient astronomy. For current and future transient pipelines, dedispersion can dominate the total execution time, meaning its…

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Verifying computational processes in decentralized networks poses a fundamental challenge, particularly for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computations. Our investigation reveals significant limitations in existing approaches: exact…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Eric Boniardi , Stanley Bishop , Alison Haire

Standard Gaussian Process (GP) regression, a powerful machine learning tool, is computationally expensive when it is applied to large datasets, and potentially inaccurate when data points are sparsely distributed in a high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Z. Zhang , K. Duraisamy , N. A. Gumerov

Paraxial diffraction modeling based on the Fourier transform has seen widespread implementation for simulating the response of a diffraction-limited optical system. For systems where the paraxial assumption is not sufficient, a class of…

We study exact sparse linear regression with an $\ell_0-\ell_2$ penalty and develop a branch-and-bound (BnB) algorithm explicitly designed for GPU execution. Starting from a perspective reformulation, we derive an interval relaxation that…

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We present new algorithms for the parallelization of Eulerian-Lagrangian interaction operations in the immersed boundary method. Our algorithms rely on two well-studied parallel primitives: key-value sort and segmented reduce. The use of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Andrew Kassen , Varun Shankar , Aaron L Fogelson

The Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method is widely used for solving linear systems of equations with sparse matrices. A recent version of PCG, Pipelined PCG, eliminates the dependencies in the computations of the PCG algorithm so…

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Compiling Bayesian networks (BNs) to junction trees and performing belief propagation over them is among the most prominent approaches to computing posteriors in BNs. However, belief propagation over junction tree is known to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Lu Zheng , Ole Mengshoel , Jike Chong

This paper discusses the potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-dimensional optimization problems. A single GPU card with hundreds of arithmetic cores can be inserted in a personal computer and dramatically accelerates many…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-13 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange , Marc A. Suchard

Gaussian processes (GP) are Bayesian non-parametric models that are widely used for probabilistic regression. Unfortunately, it cannot scale well with large data nor perform real-time predictions due to its cubic time cost in the data size.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Jie Chen , Nannan Cao , Kian Hsiang Low , Ruofei Ouyang , Colin Keng-Yan Tan , Patrick Jaillet

Gaussian processes (GP) are Bayesian non-parametric models that are widely used for probabilistic regression. Unfortunately, it cannot scale well with large data nor perform real-time predictions due to its cubic time cost in the data size.…

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In cryo-electron microscopy (EM), molecular structures are determined from large numbers of projection images of individual particles. To harness the full power of this single-molecule information, we use the Bayesian inference of EM…

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Software engineers often have to estimate the performance of a software system before having full knowledge of the system parameters, such as workload and operational profile. These uncertain parameters inevitably affect the accuracy of…

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We present an optimizer which uses Bayesian optimization to tune the system parameters of distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Given a specific context, our goal is to quickly find efficient configurations which appropriately…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-04 Valentin Dalibard , Michael Schaarschmidt , Eiko Yoneki

As the need for computational power and efficiency rises, parallel systems become increasingly popular among various scientific fields. While multiple core-based architectures have been the center of attention for many years, the rapid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 E. I. Ioannidis , N. Cheimarios , A. N. Spyropoulos , A. G. Boudouvis

Finite element schemes based on discontinuous Galerkin methods possess features amenable to massively parallel computing accelerated with general purpose graphics processing units (GPUs). However, the computational performance of such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Axel Modave , Amik St-Cyr , Tim Warburton

In this work, we present an extension of Gaussian process (GP) models with sophisticated parallelization and GPU acceleration. The parallelization scheme arises naturally from the modular computational structure w.r.t. datapoints in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Zhenwen Dai , Andreas Damianou , James Hensman , Neil Lawrence

Moment-based estimation filters have successfully aided spacecraft navigation for decades. However, future missions plan to venture into deep-space regimes with significant round-trip light-time telecommunication delays, operate in…

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