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We present an algorithm which combines recent advances in model based path integral control with machine learning approaches to learning forward dynamics models. We take advantage of the parallel computing power of a GPU to quickly take a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Grady Williams , Eric Rombokas , Tom Daniel

Progressive Hedging is a popular decomposition algorithm for solving multi-stage stochastic optimization problems. A computational bottleneck of this algorithm is that all scenario subproblems have to be solved at each iteration. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Gilles Bareilles , Yassine Laguel , Dmitry Grishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

Solving inverse problems and achieving statistical rigour in landscape evolution models requires running many model realizations. Parallel computation is necessary to achieve this in a reasonable time. However, no previous algorithm is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Richard Barnes

In recent decades, High Performance Computing (HPC) has undergone significant enhancements, particularly in the realm of hardware platforms, aimed at delivering increased processing power while keeping power consumption within reasonable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 S. -Kazem Shekofteh , Christian Alles , Nils Kochendörfer , Holger Fröning

While the advances in synchrotron light sources, together with the development of focusing optics and detectors, allow nanoscale ptychographic imaging of materials and biological specimens, the corresponding experiments can yield…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xiaodong Yu , Viktor Nikitin , Daniel J. Ching , Selin Aslan , Doga Gursoy , Tekin Bicer

We consider the all-pairs multicommodity network flow problem on a network with capacitated edges. The usual treatment keeps track of a separate flow for each source-destination pair on each edge; we rely on a more efficient formulation in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Fangzhao Zhang , Stephen Boyd

In this paper, we investigate GPU based parallel triangular solvers systematically. The parallel triangular solvers are fundamental to incomplete LU factorization family preconditioners and algebraic multigrid solvers. We develop a new…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Zhangxin Chen , Hui Liu , Bo Yang

The proximal gradient algorithm has been popularly used for convex optimization. Recently, it has also been extended for nonconvex problems, and the current state-of-the-art is the nonmonotone accelerated proximal gradient algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Fei Gao , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

As recurrent neural networks become larger and deeper, training times for single networks are rising into weeks or even months. As such there is a significant incentive to improve the performance and scalability of these networks. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Jeremy Appleyard , Tomas Kocisky , Phil Blunsom

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 present a Pseudo-Transient Topology Optimization (PeTTO) approach that can leverage graphics processing units (GPUs) to efficiently solve single-material and multi-material topology optimization problems. By integrating PeTTO with phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Mingyuan Yang , Qian Yu , Chao Yang

An effective strategy for accelerating the calculation of convex hulls for point sets is to filter the input points by discarding interior points. In this paper, we present such a straightforward and efficient preprocessing approach by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Gang Mei

I present HPRMAT, a high-performance solver library for the linear systems arising in R-matrix coupled-channel scattering calculations in nuclear physics. Designed as a drop-in replacement for the linear algebra routines in existing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Jin Lei

To find deterministic solutions to the transient $S_N$ neutron transport equation, iterative schemes are typically used to treat the scattering (and fission) source terms. We explore the one-cell inversion iteration scheme to do this on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 J. P. Morgan , Ilham Variansyah , Todd S. Palmer , Kyle E. Niemeyer

The primal-dual interior point method (IPM) is widely regarded as the most efficient IPM variant for linear optimization. In this paper, we demonstrate that the improved stability of the pure primal IPM can allow speedups relative to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Wenzhi Gao , Huikang Liu , Yinyu Ye , Madeleine Udell

GPUs are widely used to accelerate deep learning with NNs (NNs). On the other hand, since GPU memory capacity is limited, it is difficult to implement efficient programs that compute large NNs on GPU. To compute NNs exceeding GPU memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Yuki Ito , Haruki Imai , Tung Le Duc , Yasushi Negishi , Kiyokuni Kawachiya , Ryo Matsumiya , Toshio Endo

Future computing systems, from handhelds to supercomputers, will undoubtedly be more parallel and heterogeneous than todays systems to provide more performance and energy efficiency. Thus, GPUs are increasingly being used to accelerate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Saeed Taheri , Apan Qasem , Martin Burtscher

In recent years, applications such as real-time simulations, autonomous systems, and video games increasingly demand the processing of complex geometric models under stringent time constraints. Traditional geometric algorithms, including…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Roberto Carrasco , Enzo Meneses , Hector Ferrada , Cristobal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

Graphics processing units (GPU) had evolved from a specialized hardware capable to render high quality graphics in games to a commodity hardware for effective processing blocks of data in a parallel schema. This evolution is particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Luis Cabellos

Accelerating the convergence of second-order optimization, particularly Newton-type methods, remains a pivotal challenge in algorithmic research. In this paper, we extend previous work on the \textbf{Quadratic Gradient (QG)} and rigorously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 John Chiang