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Probabilistic rounding error analysis can yield much sharper bounds than classical worst-case theory, but existing results typically rely on zero-mean rounding errors and often leave the confidence parameter implicit. This work revisits…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-10 Sahil Bhola , Karthik Duraisamy

Using exact computer arithmetic, it is possible to determine the (exact) solution of a numerical model without rounding error. For such purposes, a corresponding system of equations should be exactly defined, either directly or by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-17 J. Dvornik , A. Jaguljnjak Lazarevic , D. Lazarevic , M. Uros

Modern computer architectures support low-precision arithmetic, which present opportunities for the adoption of mixed-precision algorithms to achieve high computational throughput and reduce energy consumption. As a growing number of…

Computation · Statistics 2024-12-02 Sahil Bhola , Karthik Duraisamy

The error function of real argument can be uniformly approximated to a given accuracy by a single closed-form expression for the whole variable range either in terms of addition, multiplication, division, and square root operations only, or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Dimitri N. Laikov

Floating-point round-off errors are ubiquitous in numerically intensive programs arising in fields such as scientific computing and optimization. As floating-point errors potentially lead to unexpected and catastrophic program failures, one…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yichen Tao , Hongfei Fu , Jiawei Chen , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

Verification of programs using floating-point arithmetic is challenging on several accounts. One of the difficulties of reasoning about such programs is due to the peculiarities of floating-point arithmetic: rounding errors, infinities,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Roberto Bagnara , Abramo Bagnara , Fabio Biselli , Michele Chiari , Roberta Gori

In dynamical system theory, the process of obtaining a reduced-order approximation of the high-order model is called model order reduction. The closeness of the reduced-order model to the original model is generally gauged by using system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Umair Zulfiqar , Xin Dua , Qiuyan Song , Muwahida Liaquat , Victor Sreeram

Significant inaccuracy often occurs during the process of mathematical calculation due to the digit limitation of floating point, which may lead to catastrophic loss. Normally, people believe that adjustment of floating-point precision is…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Ran Wang , Xinrui He

A posteriori error estimates are an important tool to bound discretization errors in terms of computable quantities avoiding regularity conditions that are often difficult to establish. For non-linear and non-differentiable problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Sören Bartels , Alex Kaltenbach

Stochastic rounding (SR) is a probabilistic method used to round numbers to floating-point and fixed-point representations. In length $n$ summation, the worst-case error of SR grows as $\sqrt{n}$ with high probability, unlike for standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 El-Mehdi El Arar , Massimiliano Fasi , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Mantas Mikaitis

Due to the limited number of bits in floating-point or fixed-point arithmetic, rounding is a necessary step in many computations. Although rounding methods can be tailored for different applications, round-off errors are generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Lu Xia , Martijn Anthonissen , Michiel Hochstenbach , Barry Koren

In various applications, computers are required to compute approximations to univariate elementary and special functions such as $\exp$ and $\arctan$ to modest accuracy. This paper proposes a new heuristic for automating the design of such…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Tor G. J. Myklebust

In recent years, half precision floating-point arithmetic has gained wide support in hardware and software stack thanks to the advance of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Operating at half precision can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Longfei Gao , Kevin Harms

Stochastic rounding (SR) is a probabilistic rounding mode that mitigates errors in large-scale numerical computations, especially when prone to stagnation effects. Beyond numerical analysis, SR has shown significant benefits in practical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 El-Mehdi El Arar , Massimiliano Fasi , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Mantas Mikaitis

Given the importance of floating-point~(FP) performance in numerous domains, several new variants of FP and its alternatives have been proposed (e.g., Bfloat16, TensorFloat32, and Posits). These representations do not have correctly rounded…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Jay P. Lim , Mridul Aanjaneya , John Gustafson , Santosh Nagarakatte

Geometric rounding of a mesh is the task of approximating its vertex coordinates by floating point numbers while preserving mesh structure. Geometric rounding allows algorithms of computational geometry to interface with numerical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Victor Milenkovic , Elisha Sacks

In this work, we propose an a pointwise a posteriori error estimator for conforming finite element approximations of eigenfunctions corresponding to multiple and clustered eigenvalues of elliptic operators. It is proven that the pointwise a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Zhenglei Li , Qigang Liang , Xuejun Xu

Floating-point arithmetic (FPA) is a mechanical representation of real arithmetic (RA), where each operation is replaced with a rounded counterpart. Various numerical properties can be verified by using SMT solvers that support the logic of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Daisuke Ishii , Takashi Tomita , Toshiaki Aoki

The goals of this paper are to obtain theoretical models of what happens when a computer calculates the rotation set of a homeomorphism, and to find a good algorithm to perform simulations of this rotation set. To do that we introduce the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Pierre-Antoine Guiheneuf

In a posteriori error analysis, the relationship between error and estimator is usually spoiled by so-called oscillation terms, which cannot be bounded by the error. In order to remedy, we devise a new approach where the oscillation has the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Christian Kreuzer , Andreas Veeser