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The Poisson-Boltzmann equation offers an efficient way to study electrostatics in molecular settings. Its numerical solution with the boundary element method is widely used, as the complicated molecular surface is accurately represented by…

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This paper presents a case study of application of the preconditioned method of conjugate gradients (CG) on a problem with operator resembling the structure of sum of Kronecker products. In particular, we are solving the Poisson's equation…

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There have been several recent attempts to improve the accuracy of grammar induction systems by bounding the recursive complexity of the induction model (Ponvert et al., 2011; Noji and Johnson, 2016; Shain et al., 2016; Jin et al., 2018).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Lifeng Jin , Finale Doshi-Velez , Timothy Miller , William Schuler , Lane Schwartz

The Pairwise Conditional Gradients (PCG) algorithm is a powerful extension of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm leading to particularly sparse solutions, which makes PCG very appealing for problems such as sparse signal recovery, sparse regression,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Kazuma Tsuji , Ken'ichiro Tanaka , Sebastian Pokutta

We consider a linear iterative solver for large scale linearly constrained quadratic minimization problems that arise, for example, in optimization with PDEs. By a primal-dual projection (PDP) iteration, which can be interpreted and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Anton Schiela , Matthias Stöcklein , Martin Weiser

Polynomial convergence bounds are considered for left, right, and split preconditioned GMRES. They include the cases of Weighted and Deflated GMRES for a linear system Ax = b. In particular, the case of positive definite A is considered.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Nicole Spillane , Daniel B Szyld

Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive speech generation by letting a fast draft model propose tokens that a larger target model verifies. However, for speech LLMs that generate acoustic tokens, exact token matching is overly…

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The conjugate gradient method (CG) is typically used with a preconditioner which improves efficiency and robustness of the method. Many preconditioners include parameters and a proper choice of a preconditioner and its parameters is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Alexandr Katrutsa , Mike Botchev , George Ovchinnikov , Ivan Oseledets

The locally optimal block preconditioned conjugate gradient (LOBPCG) algorithm is a popular approach for computing a few smallest eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors of a large Hermitian positive definite matrix A. In this work,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Daniel Kressner , Yuxin Ma , Meiyue Shao

The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic obstacle scattering problems by a bounded scatterer. This paper presents the directional preconditioner for the iterative solution of linear systems of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Lexing Ying

An improved preconditioned conjugate gradient squared (PCGS) algorithm has recently been proposed, and it performs much better than the conventional PCGS algorithm. In this paper, the improved PCGS algorithm is verified as a coordinative to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Shoji Itoh , Masaaki Sugihara

The performance of eigenvalue problem solvers (eigensolvers) depends on various factors such as preconditioning and eigenvalue distribution. Developing stable and rapidly converging vectorwise eigensolvers is a crucial step in improving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Ming Zhou , Klaus Neymeyr

Radial basis functions provide highly useful and flexible interpolants to multivariate functions. Further, they are beginning to be used in the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Unfortunately, their construction requires…

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An estimation of the sky signal from streams of Time Ordered Data (TOD) acquired by Cosmic Microwave Background (\cmb) experiments is one of the most important steps in the context of \cmb data analysis referred to as the map-making…

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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) still is the workhorse for many practical problems. However, it converges slow, and can be difficult to tune. It is possible to precondition SGD to accelerate its convergence remarkably. But many attempts…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-23 Xi-Lin Li

We study convergence of the iterative projected gradient (IPG) algorithm for arbitrary (possibly nonconvex) sets and when both the gradient and projection oracles are computed approximately. We consider different notions of approximation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike E. Davies

This paper introduces the Nystr\"om PCG algorithm for solving a symmetric positive-definite linear system. The algorithm applies the randomized Nystr\"om method to form a low-rank approximation of the matrix, which leads to an efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Zachary Frangella , Joel A. Tropp , Madeleine Udell

In recent years, topology optimization has been developed sufficiently and many researchers have concentrated on enhancing to computationally numerical algorithms for computational effectiveness of this method. Along with the development of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Nam G. Luu , Thanh T. Banh

In this paper, we extend to the block case, the a posteriori bound showing superlinear convergence of Conjugate Gradients developed in [J. Comput. Applied Math., 48 (1993), pp. 327-341]; that is, we obtain similar bounds, but now for block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Christian E. Schaerer , Daniel B. Szyld , Pedro J. Torres

We are given a uniformly elliptic coefficient field that we regard as a realization of a stationary and finite-range (say, range unity) ensemble of coefficient fields. Given a (deterministic) right-hand-side supported in a ball of size…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Jianfeng Lu , Felix Otto