“…There is a vast literature on numerical upscaling of multiscale PDEs. For our context, i.e., elliptic PDEs with rough coefficients, rigorous theoretical results include generalized finite element methods [1,2], harmonic coordinates [28], LOD [23,15,18,10,14,22], Gamblets related approaches [29,30,25,26,17,27], and generalizations of multiscale finite element methods [16,8,20,12,6,7]. Among them, the ones most related to this paper are LOD and Gamblets; the connection has been explained in subsection 1.1.3.…”