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In this paper, we propose a simple and accurate numerical method for capturing moving interfaces on fixed Eulerian grids by coupling the Tangent of Hyperbola Interface Capturing (THINC) method and Level Set (LS) method. The innovative and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Longgen Qian , Yanhong Wei , Feng Xiao

Latest methods represent shapes with open surfaces using unsigned distance functions (UDFs). They train neural networks to learn UDFs and reconstruct surfaces with the gradients around the zero level set of the UDF. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We compute time-dependent solutions of the sharp-interface model of dendritic solidification in two dimensions by using a level set method. The steady-state results are in agreement with solvability theory. Solutions obtained from the level…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Yung-Tae Kim , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

We propose a data-driven mean-curvature solver for the level-set method. This work is the natural extension to $\mathbb{R}^3$ of our two-dimensional strategy in [DOI: 10.1007/s10915-022-01952-2][1] and the hybrid inference system of [DOI:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Luis Ángel Larios-Cárdenas , Frédéric Gibou

We propose a multi-level method to increase the accuracy of machine learning algorithms for approximating observables in scientific computing, particularly those that arise in systems modeled by differential equations. The algorithm relies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Kjetil O. Lye , Siddhartha Mishra , Roberto Molinaro

The level set method commonly requires a reinitialization of the level set function due to interface motion and deformation. We extend the traditional technique for reinitializing the level set function to a method that preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Lei Li , Xiaoqian Xu , Saverio E. Spagnolie

Bilevel optimization is a powerful tool for many machine learning problems, such as hyperparameter optimization and meta-learning. Estimating hypergradients (also known as implicit gradients) is crucial for developing gradient-based methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Youran Dong , Junfeng Yang , Wei Yao , Jin Zhang

We introduce a numerical method for reconstructing a multidimensional surface using the gradient of the surface measured at some values of the coordinates. The method consists of defining a multidimensional spline function and minimizing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gergely Endrodi

Optimizing shapes and topology of physical devices is crucial for both scientific and technological advancements, given its wide-ranging implications across numerous industries and research areas. Innovations in shape and topology…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Alexander Luce , Rasoul Alaee , Fabian Knorr , Florian Marquardt

The present work illustrates a difficulty with the level-set method to accurately capture the curvature of interfaces in regions that are of equal distance to two or more interfaces. Such regions are characterized by kinks in the level-set…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-24 Karl Yngve Lervåg , Åsmund Ervik

We present a computational scheme that derives a global polynomial level set parametrisation for smooth closed surfaces from a regular surface-point set and prove its uniqueness. This enables us to approximate a broad class of smooth…

The main goal of this paper is to present results of comparison study for the level set and direct Lagrangian methods for computing evolution of the Willmore flow of embedded planar curves. To perform such a study we construct new numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-30 Michal Benes , Karol Mikula , Tomas Oberhuber , Daniel Sevcovic

We propose a new technique that boosts the convergence of training generative adversarial networks. Generally, the rate of training deep models reduces severely after multiple iterations. A key reason for this phenomenon is that a deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Atsushi Nitanda , Taiji Suzuki

We propose a deep learning strategy to estimate the mean curvature of two-dimensional implicit interfaces in the level-set method. Our approach is based on fitting feed-forward neural networks to synthetic data sets constructed from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Luis Ángel Larios-Cárdenas , Frederic Gibou

Existing work has linked properties of a function's gradient to the difficulty of function approximation. Motivated by these insights, we study how gradient information can be leveraged to improve neural network's ability to approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yangchen Pan , Qizhen Ying , Philip Torr , Bo Liu

We propose a new numerical scheme for approximating level-sets of Lipschitz multivariate functions which is robust to stochastic noise. The algorithm's main feature is an adaptive grid-based stochastic approximation strategy which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Matteo Croci , Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali , Ian C. J. Powell

Level set methods are widely used for image segmentation because of their capability to handle topological changes. In this paper, we propose a novel parametric level set method called Disjunctive Normal Level Set (DNLS), and apply it to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Fitsum Mesadi , Mujdat Cetin , Tolga Tasdizen

We propose a novel method, the adaptive local window, for improving level set segmentation technique. The window is estimated separately for each contour point, over iterations of the segmentation process, and for each individual object.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Assaf Hoogi , Christopher F. Beaulieu , Guilherme M. Cunha , Elhamy Heba , Claude B. Sirlin , Sandy Napel , Daniel L. Rubin

Shape optimization involves the minimization of a cost function defined over a set of shapes, often governed by a partial differential equation (PDE). In the absence of closed-form solutions, one relies on numerical methods to approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Eloi Martinet , Leon Bungert

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown remarkable capability in representing geometry with details. However, without signed distance supervision, it is still a challenge to infer SDFs from point clouds or multi-view images using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Baorui Ma , Junsheng Zhou , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han