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We study the problem of learning a partially observed matrix under the low rank assumption in the presence of fully observed side information that depends linearly on the true underlying matrix. This problem consists of an important…

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A parallel and nested version of a frequency filtering preconditioner is proposed for linear systems corresponding to diffusion equation on a structured grid. The proposed preconditioner is found to be robust with respect to jumps in the…

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Deep learning models have proven to be exceptionally useful in performing many machine learning tasks. However, for each new dataset, choosing an effective size and structure of the model can be a time-consuming process of trial and error.…

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Meaningful comparison between sets of observations often necessitates alignment or registration between them, and the resulting optimization problems range in complexity from those admitting simple closed-form solutions to those requiring…

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Preconditioning of a linear system obtained from spectral discretization of time-dependent PDEs often results in a full matrix which is expensive to compute and store specially when the problem size increases. A matrix-free implementation…

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The smallest singular value and condition number play important roles in numerical linear algebra and the analysis of algorithms. In numerical analysis with randomness, many previous works make Gaussian assumptions, which are not general…

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We consider the split-preconditioned FGMRES method in a mixed precision framework, in which four potentially different precisions can be used for computations with the coefficient matrix, application of the left preconditioner, application…

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A random matrix is likely to be well conditioned, and motivated by this well known property we employ random matrix multipliers to advance some fundamental matrix computations. This includes numerical stabilization of Gaussian elimination…

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We study nonlinearly preconditioned gradient methods for smooth nonconvex optimization problems, focusing on sigmoid preconditioners that inherently perform a form of gradient clipping akin to the widely used gradient clipping technique.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Jan Quan , Panagiotis Patrinos

We introduce a parallel algorithm to construct a preconditioner for solving a large, sparse linear system where the coefficient matrix is a Laplacian matrix (a.k.a., graph Laplacian). Such a linear system arises from applications such as…

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The computational and storage complexity of kernel machines presents the primary barrier to their scaling to large, modern, datasets. A common way to tackle the scalability issue is to use the conjugate gradient algorithm, which relieves…

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The convergence rates of iterative methods for solving a linear system $\mathbf{A} x = b$ typically depend on the condition number of the matrix $\mathbf{A}$. Preconditioning is a common way of speeding up these methods by reducing that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Arun Jambulapati , Jerry Li , Christopher Musco , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

Generally, discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs) creates a sequence of linear systems $A_k x_k = b_k, k = 0, 1, 2, ..., N$ with well-known and structured sparsity patterns. Preconditioners are often necessary to achieve…

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The paper is devoted to the spectral analysis of effective preconditioners for linear systems obtained via a Finite Element approximation to diffusion-dominated convection-diffusion equations. We consider a model setting in which the…

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We propose a computational framework for computing low-rank approximations to the ensemble of solutions of a parametrized system of the form $A(\xi)x(\xi)+g(x(\xi))=b(\xi)$ for multiple parameter values. The central idea is to reinterpret…

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We extend the operator preconditioning framework [R. Hiptmair, Comput. Math. with Appl. 52 (2006), pp.~699--706] to Petrov-Galerkin methods while accounting for parameter-dependent perturbations of both variational forms and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Paul Escapil-Inchauspé , Carlos Jerez-Hanckes

In this paper, we propose two mixed precision algorithms for Block-Jacobi preconditioner(BJAC): a fixed low precision strategy and an adaptive precision strategy. We evaluate the performance improvement of the proposed mixed precision BJAC…

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This article is concerned with the question of constructing effcient multigrid preconditioners for the linear systems arising when applying semismooth Newton methods to large-scale linear-quadratic optimization problems constrained by…

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