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This paper applies computational techniques of convex stochastic optimization to optimal operation and valuation of electricity storages in the face of uncertain electricity prices. Our valuations are based on the indifference pricing…

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We present a novel convex formulation that weakly couples the Material Point Method (MPM) with rigid body dynamics through frictional contact, optimized for efficient GPU parallelization. Our approach features an asynchronous time-splitting…

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The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) has known applications in scientific modeling in the fields of telecommunications, physics, mechanics, and chemistry. Accelerating calculation of far-field using GPUs and GPU clusters for…

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The high computational cost of ab-initio methods limits their application in predicting electronic properties at the device scale. Therefore, an efficient method is needed to map the atomic structure to the electronic structure quickly.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Yunlong Wang , Zhixin Liang , Chi Ding , Junjie Wang , Zheyong Fan , Hui-Tian Wang , Dingyu Xing , Jian Sun

Local search plays a central role in many effective heuristic algorithms for the vehicle routing problem (VRP) and its variants. However, neighborhood exploration is known to be computationally expensive and time consuming, especially for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhenyu Lei , Jin-Kao Hao , Qinghua Wu

Approximate dynamic programming is a popular method for solving large Markov decision processes. This paper describes a new class of approximate dynamic programming (ADP) methods- distributionally robust ADP-that address the curse of…

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Efficient parallelization of algorithms on general-purpose GPUs is essential in many areas today. However, it is a non-trivial task for software engineers to utilize GPUs to improve the performance of high-level programs in general.…

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This work develops a parallelized algorithm to compute the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) on a graphics processing unit using the streaming method of snapshots singular value decomposition. This allows the algorithm to operate efficiently…

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We propose and solve a stochastic dynamic programming (DP) problem addressing the optimal provision of regulation service reserves (RSR) by controlling dynamic demand preferences in smart buildings. A major contribution over past dynamic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Bowen Zhang , Michael C. Caramanis , John Baillieul

Fast power system state estimation (SE) solution is of paramount importance for achieving real-time decision making in power grid operations. Semidefinite programming (SDP) reformulation has been shown effective to obtain the global optimum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Yu Lan , Hao Zhu , Xiaohong Guan

Static timing analysis (STA) is crucial for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) flows but remains a computational bottleneck. While existing GPU-based STA engines are faster than CPU, they suffer from inefficiencies, particularly intra-warp…

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Auto-bidding services optimize real-time bidding strategies for advertisers under key performance indicator (KPI) constraints such as target return on investment and budget. However, uncertainties such as model prediction errors and…

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This study presents a reconstruction of the Gaussian Beam Tracing solution using CUDA, with a particular focus on the utilisation of GPU acceleration as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of traditional CPU algorithms in…

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This paper presents an analytical method for calculating the operational value of an energy storage device under multi-stage price uncertainties. Our solution calculates the storage value function from price distribution functions directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Bolun Xu , Audun Botterud , Magnus Korpas

Implicit methods and GPU parallelization are two distinct yet powerful strategies for accelerating high-order CFD algorithms. However, few studies have successfully integrated both approaches within high-speed flow solvers. The core…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Hongyu Liu , Xing Ji , Yuan Fu , Kun Xu

We introduce a novel algorithm for gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions. The method may be seen as a variant of SGD with momentum equipped with an adaptive learning rate automatically adjusted by an 'energy'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Hailiang Liu , Xuping Tian

Gaussian processes (GPs) are a widely used regression tool, but the cubic complexity of exact solvers limits their scalability. To address this challenge, we extend the GPRat library by incorporating a fully GPU-resident GP prediction…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Henrik Möllmann , Dirk Pflüger , Alexander Strack

Predictive energy management of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs), in particular those with multiple power sources, has the potential to significantly improve energy savings in real-world driving conditions. In particular, the…

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