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Diffusion models have quickly become some of the most popular and powerful generative models for high-dimensional data. The key insight that enabled their development was the realization that access to the score -- the gradient of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhenghan Fang , Mateo Díaz , Sam Buchanan , Jeremias Sulam

We consider the numerical solution of the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves from an infinite periodic array of reflection or transmission obstacles in a homogeneous background medium, in two dimensions. Boundary integral formulations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Adrianna Gillman , Alex Barnett

We present iterative solvers to approximate the solution of numerical schemes for stochastic Stefan problems. After briefly talking about the convergence results, we tackle the question of efficient strategies for solving the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Muhammad Awais Khan , Jérôme Droniou , Kim-Ngan Le , Iuliu Sorin Pop

The design of fast solvers for isogeometric analysis is receiving a lot of attention due to the challenge that offers to find an algorithm with a robust convergence with respect to the spline degree. Here, we analyze the application of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Álvaro Pé de la Riva , Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco J. Gaspar

In calculating integral or discrete transforms, use has been made of fast algorithms for multiplying vectors by matrices whose elements are specified as values of special (Chebyshev, Legendre, Laguerre, etc.) functions. The currently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Andrew V. Terekhov

LU and Cholesky matrix factorization algorithms are core subroutines used to solve systems of linear equations (SLEs) encountered while solving an optimization problem. Standard factorization algorithms are highly efficient but remain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Adolfo R. Escobedo

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

Decentralized optimization is a powerful paradigm that finds applications in engineering and learning design. This work studies decentralized composite optimization problems with non-smooth regularization terms. Most existing gradient-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

Constructing fast numerical solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) is crucial for many scientific disciplines. A leading technique for solving large-scale PDEs is using multigrid methods. At the core of a multigrid solver is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Daniel Greenfeld , Meirav Galun , Ron Kimmel , Irad Yavneh , Ronen Basri

We present a class of new explicit and stable numerical algorithms to solve the spatially discretized linear heat or diffusion equation. After discretizing the space and the time variables like conventional finite difference methods, we do…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Endre Kovács

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative modeling framework for discrete data with successful applications spanning from text generation to image synthesis. However, their deployment faces challenges due to the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yinuo Ren , Haoxuan Chen , Yuchen Zhu , Wei Guo , Yongxin Chen , Grant M. Rotskoff , Molei Tao , Lexing Ying

We consider the problem of reconstructing an infinite set of sparse, finite-dimensional vectors, that share a common sparsity pattern, from incomplete measurements. This is in contrast to the work [17], where the single vector signal can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Nick Dexter , Hoang Tran , Clayton Webster

Polynomial system solving is a classical problem in mathematics with a wide range of applications. This makes its complexity a fundamental problem in computer science. Depending on the context, solving has different meanings. In order to…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Jean-Charles Faugère , Pierrick Gaudry , Louise Huot , Guénaël Renault

A new method that enables easy and convenient discretization of partial differential equations with derivatives of arbitrary real order (so-called fractional derivatives) and delays is presented and illustrated on numerical solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Igor Podlubny , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Tomas Skovranek , YangQuan Chen , Blas M. Vinagre Jara

Time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Recently, mostly due to the high computational cost of traditional solution techniques, deep neural network based surrogates have gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Phillip Lippe , Bastiaan S. Veeling , Paris Perdikaris , Richard E. Turner , Johannes Brandstetter

The multi-frontal direct solver is the state-of-the-art algorithm for the direct solution of sparse linear systems. This paper provides computational complexity and memory usage estimates for the application of the multi-frontal direct…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Nathan Collier , David Pardo , Maciej Paszynski , Victor M. Calo

We propose a new algorithm to solve sparse linear systems of equations over the integers. This algorithm is based on a $p$-adic lifting technique combined with the use of block matrices with structured blocks. It achieves a sub-cubic…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Wayne Eberly , Mark Giesbrecht , Pascal Giorgi , Arne Storjohann , Gilles Villard

Solving a large-scale system of linear equations is a key step at the heart of many algorithms in machine learning, scientific computing, and beyond. When the problem dimension is large, computational and/or memory constraints make it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Navid Azizan-Ruhi , Farshad Lahouti , Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

We present a novel linear solver that works well for large systems obtained from discretizing PDEs. It is robust and, for the examples we studied, the computational effort scales linearly with the number of equations. The algorithm is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Klaus Lackner , Ralph Menikoff

In this paper we review the parallel solution of sparse linear systems, usually deriving by the discretization of ODE-IVPs or ODE-BVPs. The approach is based on the concept of parallel factorization of a (block) tridiagonal matrix. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Pierluigi Amodio , Luigi Brugnano