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The Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient method is often employed for the solution of linear systems of equations arising in numerical simulations of physical phenomena. While being widely used, the solver is also known for its lack of…

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Performance of optimization on quadratic problems sensitively depends on the low-lying part of the spectrum. For large (effectively infinite-dimensional) problems, this part of the spectrum can often be naturally represented or approximated…

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This paper investigates using the conjugate gradient iterative solver for ill-posed problems. We show that preconditioner and Tikhonov-regularization work in conjunction. In particular when they employ the same symmetric positive…

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The iteration complexity of the block-coordinate descent (BCD) type algorithm has been under extensive investigation. It was recently shown that for convex problems the classical cyclic BCGD (block coordinate gradient descent) achieves an…

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The conjugate gradient (CG) method is an efficient iterative method for solving large-scale strongly convex quadratic programming (QP). In this paper we propose some generalized CG (GCG) methods for solving the $\ell_1$-regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Zhaosong Lu , Xiaojun Chen

We consider adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) with inexact algebraic solvers for second-order symmetric linear elliptic diffusion problems. Optimal complexity of AFEM, i.e., optimal convergence rates with respect to the overall…

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A new polynomial preconditioner for symmetric complex linear systems based on Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting (HSS) for complex symmetric linear systems is herein presented. It applies to Conjugate Orthogonal Conjugate Gradient…

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Incremental Potential Contact (IPC) guarantees intersection-free simulation but suffers from high computational costs due to the expensive Hessian assembly and linear solves required by Newton's method. While Preconditioned Nonlinear…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yu Zhang , Xing Shen , Kemeng Huang , Wei Chen , Yin Yang , Taku Komura , Tiantian Liu , Xingang Pan

We propose a novel preconditioned inexact primal-dual interior point method for constrained convex quadratic programming problems. The algorithm we describe invokes the preconditioned conjugate gradient method on a new reduced Schur…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Samah Karim , Edgar Solomonik

We propose an adaptive mixed precision and dynamically scaled preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm (AMP-PCG). It dynamically adjusts the precision for storing vectors and computing, exploiting low precision when appropriate, while…

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This paper presents a new stochastic preconditioning approach. For symmetric diagonally-dominant M-matrices, we prove that an incomplete LDL factorization can be obtained from random walks, and used as a preconditioner for an iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Haifeng Qian , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

Recent studies have shown that proximal gradient (PG) method and accelerated gradient method (APG) with restarting can enjoy a linear convergence under a weaker condition than strong convexity, namely a quadratic growth condition (QGC).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Mingrui Liu , Tianbao Yang

The use of the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method for computing the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimator of the General Linear Model (GLM) is considered. The GLS estimator is expressed in terms of the solution of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Paolo Foschi

In this paper an inverse preconditioner for the numerical solution of an elliptic Laplace prob- lem of a global circulation ocean model is presented. The inverse preconditiong technique is adopted in order to efficiently compute the…

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In this paper, we focus on solving a sequence of linear systems with an identical (or similar) coefficient matrix. For this type of problems, we investigate the subspace correction and deflation methods, which use an auxiliary matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Takeshi Iwashita , Kota Ikehara , Takeshi Fukaya , Takeshi Mifune

Despite hundreds of papers on preconditioned linear systems of equations, there remains a significant lack of comprehensive performance benchmarks comparing various preconditioners for solving symmetric positive definite (SPD) systems. In…

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A fundamental task in numerical computation is the solution of large linear systems. The conjugate gradient method is an iterative method which offers rapid convergence to the solution, particularly when an effective preconditioner is…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-18 Jon Cockayne , Chris Oates , Ilse Ipsen , Mark Girolami

We introduce a neural-preconditioned iterative solver for Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions. Typical Poisson discretizations yield large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Iterative solvers can be effective for these problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Kai Weixian Lan , Elias Gueidon , Ayano Kaneda , Julian Panetta , Joseph Teran

Properties of Superiorized Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (SupPCG) algorithms in image reconstruction from projections are examined. Least squares (LS) is usually chosen for measuring data-inconsistency in these inverse problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Elias S. Helou , Gabor T. Herman , Chuan Lin , Marcelo V. W. Zibetti

We present a Calder\'on preconditioning scheme for the symmetric formulation of the forward electroencephalographic (EEG) problem that cures both the dense discretization and the high-contrast breakdown. Unlike existing Calder\'on schemes…

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