Sparse Linear Algebra

Solvers That Don't Choose Sides

Esmail Abdul Fattah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Oct 15, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2325

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In this talk, I will present sTiles, a direct solver that decides sparse or dense tile by tile instead of once for the whole matrix, covering the full range from sparse to fully dense and outpacing established sparse direct solvers on the repeated factorizations that drive large-scale inference.