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48 results for solver speedup

skscope simplifies sparsity-constrained optimization in Python.

problem Tedious mathematical deduction and programming for sparsity-constrained optimization.
method Introduces skscope, a Python library that allows users to solve sparsity-constrained optimization problems by just programming the objective function.
result skscope enables state-of-the-art solvers to quickly attain sparse solutions in high-dimensional spaces, achieving up to 80x speedup.

Quantum algorithm speeds up MIP solving by a near-quadratic factor.

problem Solving Mixed Integer Programs (MIPs) efficiently.
method Incremental-Quantum-Branch-and-Bound algorithm combining quantum speedup with classical search heuristics.
result Universal near-quadratic speedup over classical Branch-and-Bound algorithms.

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used across the physical and computational sciences. Decades of research and engineering went into designing fast iterative solution methods. Existing solvers are general purpose, but may be sub-optimal for specific classes of problems. In contrast to existing hand-craft…

2019-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper presents an acceleration framework for packing linear programming problems where the amount of data available is limited, i.e., where the number of constraints m is small compared to the variable dimension n. The framework can be used as a black box to speed up linear programming solvers dramatically, by two…

2017-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

DPM-Solver speeds up DPM sampling to 10-20 function evaluations.

problem Slow sampling from Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs).
method Exact formulation of diffusion ODE solutions, using change-of-variable and exponentially weighted integral.
result Generates high-quality samples in 10-20 function evaluations.

Paper develops MMOT framework for financial applications with neural acceleration.

problem Financial optimization and calibration under multi-period martingale constraints.
method Theoretical analysis, incremental updates, adaptive sparse grids, hybrid neural-projection solver.
result Neural solver achieves 1597x speedup for real-time applications.

A new method solves diagonally constrained SDPs quickly and accurately.

problem Solving large-scale diagonally constrained SDPs efficiently.
method Combines momentum from convex optimization with coordinate descent and matrix factorization.
result Local linear convergence and first-order critical point convergence proved.

Quantum algorithms speed up derivative pricing beyond Black-Scholes models.

problem Quantum speedups for derivative pricing beyond Black-Scholes models.
method Utilizing fast-forwardability and quantum Milstein sampler for non-GBM models, and improved numerical integration for GBM and CIR models.
result Quadratic speedups for derivative pricing in practical models like CIR and Heston's model.

New algorithm speeds up cluster-based compressive sensing tasks.

problem Efficiently solving multiple compressive sensing tasks with shared information.
method Combines Monte Carlo sampling with iterative linear solvers to avoid explicit covariance matrix computation.
result Up to thousands of times faster and orders of magnitude more memory-efficient compared to existing methods.

We developed efficient methods to compute gradients for Neural SDEs, improving training speed and accuracy.

problem Training Neural SDEs requires accurate and efficient computation of gradients, which is challenging due to the complexity of SDEs.
method We introduced a reversible Heun method for solving backwards-in-time SDEs and a Brownian Interval for sampling and reconstructing Brownian motion.
result Our methods significantly improve training speed and accuracy for Neural SDEs, outperforming state-of-the-art techniques.

Convex sparsity-inducing regularizations are ubiquitous in high-dimensional machine learning, but solving the resulting optimization problems can be slow. To accelerate solvers, state-of-the-art approaches consist in reducing the size of the optimization problem at hand. In the context of regression, this can be achiev…

2018-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient kernel methods for large datasets using GPU acceleration.

problem Handling large-scale nonparametric learning problems efficiently.
method Preconditioned gradient solver, GPU acceleration, parallelization, out-of-core linear algebra, numerical precision optimization.
result Dramatic speedups on datasets with billions of points, maintaining state-of-the-art performance.

We reduce a broad class of machine learning problems, usually addressed by EM or sampling, to the problem of finding the kk extremal rays spanning the conical hull of a data point set. These kk "anchors" lead to a global solution and a more interpretable model that can even outperform EM and sampling on generalizatio…

2014-06-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The support vector machine (SVM) is a widely used method for classification. Although many efforts have been devoted to develop efficient solvers, it remains challenging to apply SVM to large-scale problems. A nice property of SVM is that the non-support vectors have no effect on the resulting classifier. Motivated by …

2013-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) encode physical conservation laws and prior physical knowledge into the neural networks, ensuring the correct physics is represented accurately while alleviating the need for supervised learning to a great degree. While effective for relatively short-term time integration, when …

2019-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural-network emulators predict sea-level changes due to Antarctic ice melt.

problem High computational cost and time in projecting sea-level changes.
method Built neural-network emulators of sea-level change using GRD effects from future Antarctic Ice Sheet mass change.
result Neural-network emulators are as accurate as baseline machine learning emulators and offer substantial computational efficiency.

Physics-informed neural networks and neural operators speed up solving parametric PDEs by orders of magnitude.

problem Solving PDEs for varying parameters is computationally expensive.
method Physics-informed neural networks and neural operators learn solution mappings across parameter spaces.
result Neural operators achieve computational speedups of 10^3 to 10^5 times faster than traditional methods.

EM-GAN uses GANs for fast stress analysis of multi-segment interconnects.

problem Fast and accurate stress analysis for EM failure assessment in multi-segment interconnects.
method Conditional GAN model trained on images of multi-segment wires and current densities.
result EM-GAN provides accurate stress distribution with 6.6% error and 8.3X speedup.

In this paper we propose a novel parallel stochastic coordinate descent (SCD) algorithm with convergence guarantees that exhibits strong scalability. We start by studying a state-of-the-art parallel implementation of SCD and identify scalability as well as system-level performance bottlenecks of the respective implemen…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid model combines neural networks and fluid dynamics for efficient, generalized simulations.

problem Inefficient and poor generalization of deep learning approximations of fluid dynamics.
method Combines graph neural networks with a differentiable PDE solver inside a neural network.
result Hybrid model generalizes well to new scenarios and outperforms both neural network and traditional methods.

NeuralMD accelerates protein-ligand binding simulations 1Kx faster.

problem Accurate and efficient simulation of protein-ligand binding dynamics.
method Physics-informed multi-grained group symmetric framework with BindingNet and augmented neural differential equation solver.
result Achieves over 1Kx speedup and up to 15x reduction in reconstruction error compared to standard methods.

Subset selection from massive data with noised information is increasingly popular for various applications. This problem is still highly challenging as current methods are generally slow in speed and sensitive to outliers. To address the above two issues, we propose an accelerated robust subset selection (ARSS) method…

2014-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Accelerates Birkhoff projection for manifold-constrained hyper-connections with high accuracy and speed.

problem Inaccurate and slow Birkhoff projection in mHC implementations.
method Dual formulation, Newton's method, implicit differentiation, warp-level CUDA kernel.
result Substantial speedups and accuracy improvements in doubly stochastic projections.

We present a quantum interior-point method (IPM) for second-order cone programming (SOCP) that runs in time O~(nrζκδ2log(1/ε))\widetilde{O} \left( n\sqrt{r} \frac{ζκ}{δ^2} \log \left(1/ε\right) \right) where rr is the rank and nn the dimension of the SOCP, δδ bounds the distance of intermediate solutions from the cone boundary, ζζ

2019-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes neural networks with blackbox solvers using Time-cost Regularization.

problem Improving neural network performance by integrating efficient solvers for complex problems.
method Optimizes both the primary loss function and the performance of the blackbox solver using Time-cost Regularization. Introduces a hyper-blackbox concept to learn blackbox parameters.
result Significant improvement in neural network performance through optimization of blackbox solvers.

ProxSkip achieves linear speedup in distributed non-convex optimization.

problem Achieving linear speedup in distributed non-convex optimization.
method Unified convergence analysis for stochastic non-convex, convex, and strongly convex problems.
result ProxSkip achieves linear speedup in the number of nodes under stochastic gradients.

Study analyzes 3,171 stocks to pick efficient portfolios using quantum and classical solvers.

problem Creating efficient stock portfolios from a large dataset.
method Used classical and quantum solvers to optimize portfolios of 3,171 US stocks.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of quantum and classical solvers in portfolio optimization.

We propose a novel method to accelerate Lloyd's algorithm for K-Means clustering. Unlike previous acceleration approaches that reduce computational cost per iterations or improve initialization, our approach is focused on reducing the number of iterations required for convergence. This is achieved by treating the assig…

2018-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper speeds up hyperparameter optimisation in Gaussian processes.

problem Scaling hyperparameter optimisation to large datasets.
method Improvements to linear system solvers (pathwise gradient, warm starting, early stopping).
result Speed-ups of up to 72x and residual norm decreases of up to 7x.

CRA improves UL-based CO solvers by dynamically smoothing and enforcing discreteness.

problem Local optima and artificial rounding issues in UL-based CO solvers.
method Continuous Relaxation Annealing (CRA) strategy that dynamically shifts from continuous to discrete solutions.
result Significantly enhances UL-based CO solver performance and eliminates artificial rounding.

Study compares 5 ODE solvers on 3 case studies, finding varying accuracy.

problem Comparing estimation accuracy of 5 ODE solvers on 3 case studies.
method Used 5 different numerical ODE solvers (Euler's, Heun's, Midpoint, Runge-Kutta 4th order, ODE45) on 3 case studies and compared their results.
result Different solvers have varying accuracy depending on the case study.

A new method combines classical and machine learning PDE solvers efficiently.

problem Combining classical and machine learning PDE solvers to reduce computational cost and improve accuracy.
method Proposes an approximate greedy router to select solvers at each iteration, mimicking a greedy approach.
result Consistently reduces final error and AUC of the error trajectory compared to single-solver baselines and hybrid approaches.