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We study linear systems of equations arising from a stochastic Galerkin finite element discretization of saddle point problems with random data and its iterative solution. We consider the Stokes flow model with random viscosity described by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Christopher Müller , Sebastian Ullmann , Jens Lang

This work is concerned with the numerical solution of large-scale symmetric positive definite matrix equations of the form $A_1XB_1^\top + A_2XB_2^\top + \dots + A_\ell X B_\ell^\top = F$, as they arise from discretized partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Ivan Bioli , Daniel Kressner , Leonardo Robol

We study the high-order local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for the $p$-Laplace equation. We reformulate our spatial discretization as an equivalent convex minimization problem and use a preconditioned gradient descent method as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yue Wu , Yan Xu

Given a full column rank matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ ($m\geq n$), we consider a special class of linear systems of the form $A^\top Ax=A^\top b+c$ with $x, c \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $b \in \mathbb{R}^{m}$. The occurrence of $c$ in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Henri Calandra , Serge Gratton , Elisa Riccietti , Xavier Vasseur

Scaling hyperparameter optimisation to very large datasets remains an open problem in the Gaussian process community. This paper focuses on iterative methods, which use linear system solvers, like conjugate gradients, alternating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jihao Andreas Lin , Shreyas Padhy , Bruno Mlodozeniec , Javier Antorán , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

The matrix factor model has drawn growing attention for its advantage in achieving two-directional dimension reduction simultaneously for matrix-structured observations. In this paper, we propose a simple iterative least squares algorithm…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-02 Yong He , Ran Zhao , Wen-Xin Zhou

This paper investigates using the conjugate gradient iterative solver for ill-posed problems. We show that preconditioner and Tikhonov-regularization work in conjunction. In particular when they employ the same symmetric positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Ahmed Chabib , Jean-Francois Witz , Vincent Magnier , Pierre Gosselet

Deep learning solvers for partial differential equations typically have limited accuracy. We propose to overcome this problem by using them as preconditioners. More specifically, we apply discretization-invariant neural operators to learn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Alexander Rudikov , Vladimir Fanaskov , Ekaterina Muravleva , Yuri M. Laevsky , Ivan Oseledets

We propose two novel conditional gradient-based methods for solving structured stochastic convex optimization problems with a large number of linear constraints. Instances of this template naturally arise from SDP-relaxations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Ahmet Alacaoglu , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

We give a simplified presentation of the obstacle problem approach to stochastic homogenization for elliptic equations in nondivergence form. Our argument also applies to equations which depend on the gradient of the unknown function. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-24 Scott N. Armstrong , Charles K. Smart

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a very popular technique in machine learning because it automatically extracts meaningful features through a sparse and part-based representation. However, NMF has the drawback of being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-07 Nicolas Gillis

We propose a solution strategy for linear systems arising in interior method optimization, which is suitable for implementation on hardware accelerators such as graphical processing units (GPUs). The current gold standard for solving these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Shaked Regev , Nai-Yuan Chiang , Eric Darve , Cosmin G. Petra , Michael A. Saunders , Kasia Świrydowicz , Slaven Peleš

This paper presents a probabilistic perspective on iterative methods for approximating the solution $\mathbf{x}_* \in \mathbb{R}^d$ of a nonsingular linear system $\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x}_* = \mathbf{b}$. In the approach a standard iterative…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-12 Jon Cockayne , Ilse C. F. Ipsen , Chris J. Oates , Tim W. Reid

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

We explore a scaled spectral preconditioner for the efficient solution of sequences of symmetric and positive-definite linear systems. We design the scaled preconditioner not only as an approximation of the inverse of the linear system but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Youssef Diouane , Selime Gürol , Oussama Mouhtal , Dominique Orban

This article introduces an iterative method for solving nonsingular non-Hermitian positive semidefinite systems of linear equations. To construct the iteration process, the coefficient matrix is split into two non-Hermitian positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Mohsen Masoudi

Prior to the parallel solution of a large linear system, it is required to perform a partitioning of its equations/unknowns. Standard partitioning algorithms are designed using the considerations of the efficiency of the parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Eugene Vecharynski , Yousef Saad , Masha Sosonkina

Matrix determinants play an important role in data analysis, in particular when Gaussian processes are involved. Due to currently exploding data volumes, linear operations - matrices - acting on the data are often not accessible directly…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-07-08 Sebastian Dorn , Torsten A. Enßlin

Domain decomposition (DD) methods are widely used as preconditioner techniques. Their effectiveness relies on the choice of a locally constructed coarse space. Thus far, this construction was mostly achieved using non-assembled matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Hussam Al Daas , Pierre Jolivet

We present a novel recursive algorithm for reducing a symmetric matrix to a triangular factorization which reveals the rank profile matrix. That is, the algorithm computes a factorization $\mathbf{P}^T\mathbf{A}\mathbf{P} =…

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