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Once an optimisation problem has been solved, the solution may need adaptation when contextual factors change. This challenge, also known as reoptimisation, has been addressed in various problem domains, such as railway crew rescheduling,…

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Recent years have seen the emergence of nonlinear methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). While these approaches often perform well in practice, their theoretical analysis…

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