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In nature, many complex multi-physics coupling problems exhibit significant diffusivity inhomogeneity, where one process occurs several orders of magnitude faster than others in temporal. Simulating rapid diffusion alongside slower…

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A new decomposition optimization algorithm, called \textit{path-following gradient-based decomposition}, is proposed to solve separable convex optimization problems. Unlike path-following Newton methods considered in the literature, this…

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Homogeneous diffusion inpainting can reconstruct missing image areas with high quality from a sparse subset of known pixels, provided that their location as well as their gray or color values are well optimized. This property is exploited…

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There is an ongoing effort to develop tools that apply distributed computational resources to tackle large problems or reduce the time to solve them. In this context, the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) arises as a method…

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Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (Structured AMR) enables simulations to adapt the domain resolution to save computation and storage, and has become one of the dominant data representations used by scientific simulations; however,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ingo Wald , Stefan Zellmann , Will Usher , Nate Morrical , Ulrich Lang , Valerio Pascucci

Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of different mechanical systems. In this paper, we introduce an iterative procedure for the solution of discrete variational equations for boundary value…

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The field of computer graphics was revolutionized by models such as Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting, displacing triangles as the dominant representation for photogrammetry. In this paper, we argue for a triangle comeback.…

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In this paper, we present a computationally efficient trajectory optimizer that can exploit GPUs to jointly compute trajectories of tens of agents in under a second. At the heart of our optimizer is a novel reformulation of the non-convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Fatemeh Rastgar , Houman Masnavi , Jatan Shrestha , Karl Kruusamae , Alvo Aabloo , Arun Kumar Singh

Diffusion models form an important class of generative models today, accounting for much of the state of the art in cutting edge AI research. While numerous extensions beyond image and video generation exist, few of such approaches address…

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Gaussian process (GP) regression with 1D inputs can often be performed in linear time via a stochastic differential equation formulation. However, for non-Gaussian likelihoods, this requires application of approximate inference methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Paul E. Chang , William J. Wilkinson , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Arno Solin

Fast domain propagation of linear constraints has become a crucial component of today's best algorithms and solvers for mixed integer programming and pseudo-boolean optimization to achieve peak solving performance. Irregularities in the…

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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 pose video object segmentation as spectral graph clustering in space and time, with one graph node for each pixel and edges forming local space-time neighborhoods. We claim that the strongest cluster in this video graph represents the…

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Recently, differentiable search methods have made major progress in reducing the computational costs of neural architecture search. However, these approaches often report lower accuracy in evaluating the searched architecture or…

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Range minimum queries are frequently used in string processing and database applications including biological sequence analysis, document retrieval, and web search. Hence, various data structures have been proposed for improving their…

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This work presents a GPU thread mapping approach that allows doing fast parallel stencil-like computations on discrete fractals using their compact representation. The intuition behind is to employ two GPU tensor-core accelerated thread…

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Recently, diffusion models have achieved significant advances in vision, text, and robotics. However, they still face slow generation speeds due to sequential denoising processes. To address this, a parallel sampling method based on Picard…

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The polyhedral homotopy method of Huber and Sturmfels is a particularly efficient and robust numerical method for solving system of (Laurent) polynomial equations. A central component in an implementation of this method is an efficient and…

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Fast 4$\pi$ solid angle particle track recognition has been a challenge in particle physics for a long time, especially in using nuclear emulsion detectors. The recent advances in computing technology opened the way for its realization. A…

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