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A fundamental task in numerical computation is the solution of large linear systems. The conjugate gradient method is an iterative method which offers rapid convergence to the solution, particularly when an effective preconditioner is…

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We study an inverse boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation in $2 + 1$ dimensions. The objective is to recover an unknown potential $q(x, t)$ from the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map using real-valued waves. We propose a…

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The state-of-the-art methods for estimating high-dimensional covariance matrices all shrink the eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix towards a data-insensitive shrinkage target. The underlying shrinkage transformation is either…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-25 Man-Chung Yue , Yves Rychener , Daniel Kuhn , Viet Anh Nguyen

We study differentiable strongly quasiconvex functions for providing new properties for algorithmic and monotonicity purposes. Furthemore, we provide insights into the decreasing behaviour of strongly quasiconvex functions, applying this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Felipe Lara , Raúl T. Marcavillaca , Phan T. Vuong

We investigate the hydrodynamic recovery of Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) by analyzing exact balance relations for energy and enstrophy derived from averaging the equations of motion on sub-volumes of different sizes. In the context of 2D…

This paper is concerned with a nonlinear imaging problem, which aims to reconstruct a locally perturbed, perfectly reflecting, infinite plane from intensity-only (or phaseless) far-field or near-field data. A recursive Newton iteration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this article we study the inverse problem of recovering a space-dependent coefficient of the Moore-Gibson-Thompson (MGT) equation, from knowledge of the trace of the solution on some open subset of the boundary. We obtain the Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Rogelio Arancibia , Rodrigo Lecaros , Alberto Mercado , Sebastián Zamorano

In this paper, we consider a problem inspired by the real-world need to identify the topographical features of ocean basins. Specifically we consider the problem of estimating the bottom impermeable boundary to an inviscid, incompressible,…

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In this paper, we investigate the influence of noise giving an estimate of the gradient having a acute angle with the original. Noise amplitude has a relative model. The work offers both theoretical calculations and theorems, as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Artem Vasin

We present a robust and flexible optimization approach for dynamic mode decomposition analysis of data with complex dynamics and low signal-to-noise ratios. The approach borrows techniques and insights from the field of deep learning.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-21 Andre Weiner , Richard Semaan

We propose a unified approach to the formal long-wave reduction of several fluid models for thin-layer incompressible homogeneous flows driven by a constant external force like gravity. The procedure is based on a mathematical coherence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-17 François Bouchut , Sébastien Boyaval

Phase retrieval (PR) is a popular research topic in signal processing and machine learning. However, its performance degrades significantly when the measurements are corrupted by noise or outliers. To address this limitation, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Jun Fan , Ailing Yan , Xianchao Xiu , Wanquan Liu

Shear-induced turbulence could play a significant role in mixing momentum and chemical species in stellar radiation zones, as discussed by Zahn (1974). In this paper we analyze the results of direct numerical simulations of stratified plane…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 P. Garaud , D. Gagnier , J. Verhoeven

In this article we study the numerical approximation of a variable coefficient fractional diffusion equation. Using a change of variable, the variable coefficient fractional diffusion equation is transformed into a constant coefficient…

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This paper aims to give a refined wave breaking description of the Cauchy problem to the one-dimensional nonlinear shallow water equations providing a sharp estimate of the lifespan of the solutions depending on the amplitude and topography…

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In this work, we introduce a real-time capable algorithm for considering monotonicity assumptions for recursive Gaussian Process regression (RGP). Therefore, we present how to efficiently calculate the RGP gradients online. Then, we utilize…

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We propose and analyse a novel, fully discrete numerical algorithm for the approximation of the generalised Stokes system forced by transport noise -- a prototype model for non-Newtonian fluids including turbulence. Utilising the Gradient…

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Recent advances in reconstruction methods for inverse problems leverage powerful data-driven models, e.g., deep neural networks. These techniques have demonstrated state-of-the-art performances for several imaging tasks, but they often do…

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A central problem of turbulence theory is to produce a predictive model for turbulent fluxes. These have profound implications for virtually all aspects of the turbulence dynamics. In magnetic confinement devices, drift-wave turbulence…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 R. A. Heinonen , P. H. Diamond

This technical report describes an efficient technique for computing the norm of the gradient of the loss function for a neural network with respect to its parameters. This gradient norm can be computed efficiently for every example.

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