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We propose a novel floating-point encoding scheme that builds on prior work involving fixed-point encodings. We encode floating-point numbers using Two's Complement fixed-point mantissas and Two's Complement integral exponents. We used our…

Floating-point accumulation networks (FPANs) are key building blocks used in many floating-point algorithms, including compensated summation and double-double arithmetic. FPANs are notoriously difficult to analyze, and algorithms using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 David K. Zhang , Alex Aiken

A new deterministic floating-point arithmetic called precision arithmetic is developed to track precision for arithmetic calculations. It uses a novel rounding scheme to avoid excessive rounding error propagation of conventional…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chengpu Wang

Spectral decomposition of matrices is a recurring and important task in applied mathematics, physics and engineering. Many application problems require the consideration of matrices of size three with spectral decomposition over the real…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Michal Habera , Andreas Zilian

Significant inaccuracy often occurs during the process of mathematical calculation due to the digit limitation of floating point, which may lead to catastrophic loss. Normally, people believe that adjustment of floating-point precision is…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Ran Wang , Xinrui He

Numerical simulations of physical systems exhibit discrepancies arising from unmodeled physics and idealizations, as well as numerical approximation errors stemming from discretization and solver tolerances. This article reviews techniques…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Danny Smyl

Numerical data processing is a key task across different fields of computer technology use. However, even simple summation of values is not precise due to the floating point representation use. This paper presents a practical algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Vaclav Skala

For scientific computations on a digital computer the set of real number is usually approximated by a finite set F of "floating-point" numbers. We compare the numerical accuracy possible with difference choices of F having approximately the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Richard P. Brent

We introduce and analyze an algorithm for the minimization of convex functions that are the sum of differentiable terms and proximable terms composed with linear operators. The method builds upon the recently developed smoothed gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Quang Van Nguyen , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

Programs with floating-point computations are often derived from mathematical models or designed with the semantics of the real numbers in mind. However, for a given input, the computed path with floating-point numbers may differ from the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Hélène Collavizza , Claude Michel , Michel Rueher

Algorithms operating on real numbers are implemented as floating-point computations in practice, but floating-point operations introduce roundoff errors that can degrade the accuracy of the result. We propose $\Lambda_{num}$, a functional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ariel E. Kellison , Justin Hsu

This paper focuses on a class of inclusion problems of maximal monotone operators in a multi-agent network, where each agent is characterized by an operator that is not available to any other agents, but the agents can cooperate by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Kai Gong , Liwei Zhang

From a theoretical point of view, finding the solution set of a system of inequalities in only two variables is easy. However, if we want to get rigorous bounds on this set with floating point arithmetic, in all possible cases, then things…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Walter F. Mascarenhas

System performance for networks composed of interconnected subsystems can be increased if the traditionally separated subsystems are jointly optimized. Recently, parallel and distributed optimization methods have emerged as a powerful tool…

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We study the accuracy of triangulation in multi-camera systems with respect to the number of cameras. We show that, under certain conditions, the optimal achievable reconstruction error decays quadratically as more cameras are added to the…

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In basic computational physics classes, students often raise the question of how to compute a number that exceeds the numerical limit of the machine. While technique of avoiding overflow/underflow has practical application in the electrical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Chih-Yueh Wang , Chen-Yang Yin , Hong-Yu Chen , Yung-Ko Chen

Modern computer architectures support low-precision arithmetic, which present opportunities for the adoption of mixed-precision algorithms to achieve high computational throughput and reduce energy consumption. As a growing number of…

Computation · Statistics 2024-12-02 Sahil Bhola , Karthik Duraisamy

Windowed recurrences are sliding window calculations where a function is applied iteratively across the window of data, and are ubiquitous throughout the natural, social, and computational sciences. In this monograph we explore the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 David K. Maslen , Daniel N. Rockmore

Floating-point computations are quickly finding their way in the design of safety- and mission-critical systems, despite the fact that designing floating-point algorithms is significantly more difficult than designing integer algorithms.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Roberto Bagnara , Matthieu Carlier , Roberta Gori , Arnaud Gotlieb

The numerical solution of an ordinary differential equation can be interpreted as the exact solution of a nearby modified equation. Investigating the behaviour of numerical solutions by analysing the modified equation is known as backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Robert I McLachlan , Christian Offen