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We propose an efficient numerical strategy for simulating fluid flow through porous media with highly oscillatory characteristics. Specifically, we consider non-linear diffusion models. This scheme is based on the classical homogenization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Manuela Bastidas , Carina Bringedal , Sorin Pop , Florin Radu

This paper concerns a space-time homogenization limit of nonnegative weak solutions to porous medium equations. In particular, the so-called homogenized matrix will be characterized in terms of solutions to cell problems, which drastically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Goro Akagi , Tomoyuki Oka

Prediction with the possibility of abstention (or selective prediction) is an important problem for error-critical machine learning applications. While well-studied in the classification setup, selective approaches to regression are much…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Fedor Noskov , Alexander Fishkov , Maxim Panov

Kinetic energy equipartition is a premise for many deterministic and stochastic molecular dynamics methods that aim at sampling a canonical ensemble. While this is expected for real systems, discretization errors introduced by the numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Ana J. Silveira , Charlles R. A. Abreu

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

A variational coarse-graining framework for heterogeneous media is developed that allows for a seamless transition from the traditional static scenario to a arbitrary loading conditions, including inertia effects and body forces. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-09 Chenchen Liu , Celia Reina

In this work, we mainly present the optimal convergence rates of the temporally second-order finite element scheme for solving the electrohydrodynamic equation. Suffering from the highly coupled nonlinearity, the convergence analysis of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shengfeng Wang , Zeyu Xia , Maojun Li

The goal of a generative model is to capture the distribution underlying the data, typically through latent variables. After training, these variables are often used as a new representation, more effective than the original features in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Emre Neftci , Gert Cauwenberghs

An iterative optimization approach that simultaneously minimizes the energy and optimizes the Lagrange multipliers enforcing desired constraints is presented. The method is tested on previously established benchmark systems and it is proved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 D. Kidd , A. S. Umar , K. Varga

A homogenization result for a family of integral energies is presented, where the fields are subjected to periodic first order oscillating differential constraints in divergence form. The work is based on the theory of A -quasiconvexity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-21 Elisa Davoli , Irene Fonseca

We study compressible and incompressible nonlinear elasticity variational problems in a general context. Our main result gives a sufficient condition for an equilibrium to be a global energy minimizer, in terms of convexity properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Hugo Lavenant , Aaron Zeff Palmer

In this paper, we propose a stochastic optimization method that adaptively controls the sample size used in the computation of gradient approximations. Unlike other variance reduction techniques that either require additional storage or the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Raghu Bollapragada , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

We propose a novel numerical homogenization method based on the edge multiscale approach for solving indefinite time-harmonic Maxwell equations in heterogeneous media with large wavenumber. Numerical methods for these equations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Yueqi Wang , Wing Tat Leung , Guanglian Li

Real-life problems are governed by equations which are nonlinear in nature. Nonlinear equations occur in modeling problems, such as minimizing costs in industries and minimizing risks in businesses. A technique which does not involve the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Mathew O. Aibinu , Surendra C. Thakur , Sibusiso Moyo

In the present contribution we establish quantitative results on the periodic approximation of the corrector equation for the stochastic homogenization of linear elliptic equations in divergence form, when the diffusion coefficients satisfy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Antoine Gloria , Felix Otto

Sharp asymptotic lower bounds of the expected quadratic variation of discretization error in stochastic integration are given. The theory relies on inequalities for the kurtosis and skewness of a general random variable which are themselves…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Masaaki Fukasawa

This paper explores the non-convex composition optimization in the form including inner and outer finite-sum functions with a large number of component functions. This problem arises in some important applications such as nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Liu Liu , Ji Liu , Dacheng Tao

The aim of this paper is to establish a nonlinear variational approach to the reconstruction of moving density images from indirect dynamic measurements. Our approach is to model the dynamics as a hyperelastic deformation of an initial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Martin Burger , Jan Modersitzki , Sebastian Suhr

This paper deals with the randomized heat equation defined on a general bounded interval $[L_1,L_2]$ and with non-homogeneous boundary conditions. The solution is a stochastic process that can be related, via changes of variable, with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-11 J. Calatayud , J. C. Cortés , M. Jornet

A number of optimization approaches have been proposed for optimizing nonconvex objectives (e.g. deep learning models), such as batch gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent and stochastic variance reduced gradient descent. Theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Jia Bi , Steve R. Gunn