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This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang

In this article, we present a greedy algorithm based on a tensor product decomposition, whose aim is to compute the global minimum of a strongly convex energy functional. We prove the convergence of our method provided that the gradient of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Eric Cances , Virginie Ehrlacher , Tony Lelievre

We consider the problem of inferring the topology of a network using the measurements available at the end nodes, without cooperation from the internal nodes. To this end, we provide a simple method to obtain path interference which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Anurag Rai , Eytan Modiano

We consider how to connect a set of disjoint networks to optimize the performance of the resulting composite network. We quantify this performance by the coherence of the composite network, which is defined by an $H_2$ norm of the system.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Erika Mackin , Stacy Patterson

Tensor network contraction is central to problems ranging from many-body physics to computer science. We describe how to approximate tensor network contraction through bond compression on arbitrary graphs. In particular, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We present an algorithm that efficiently computes nearly-optimal solutions to a class of combinatorial reconfiguration problems on weighted, undirected graphs. Inspired by societally relevant applications in networked infrastructure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Samuel Talkington , Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii , Daniel K. Molzahn

The topology of artificial neural networks has a significant effect on their performance. Characterizing efficient topology is a field of promising research in Artificial Intelligence. However, it is not a trivial task and it is mainly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Fabien Furfaro , Avner Bar-Hen , Geoffroy Berthelot

A new design methodology for neural networks that is guided by traditional algorithm design is presented. To prove our point, we present two heuristics and demonstrate an algorithmic technique for incorporating additional weights in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Abhejit Rajagopal , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar

Faults occurring in ad-hoc robot networks may fatally perturb their topologies leading to disconnection of subsets of those networks. Optimal topology synthesis is generally resource-intensive and time-consuming to be done in real time for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Matin Macktoobian , Zhan Shu , Qing Zhao

To better understand the overlapping modular organization of large networks with respect to flow, here we introduce the map equation for overlapping modules. In this information-theoretic framework, we use the correspondence between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Alcides Viamontes Esquivel , Martin Rosvall

We utilize classical facts from topology to show that the classification problem in machine learning is always solvable under very mild conditions. Furthermore, we show that a softmax classification network acts on an input topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mustafa Hajij , Kyle Istvan

Topology optimization is computationally demanding that requires the assembly and solution to a finite element problem for each material distribution hypothesis. As a complementary alternative to the traditional physics-based topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Saurabh Banga , Harsh Gehani , Sanket Bhilare , Sagar Patel , Levent Kara

The published literature on topology optimization has exploded over the last two decades to include methods that use shape and topological derivatives or evolutionary algorithms formulated on various geometric representations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 MohammadMahdi Behzadi , Horea T. Ilies

Cascade processes are responsible for many important phenomena in natural and social sciences. Simple models of irreversible dynamics on graphs, in which nodes activate depending on the state of their neighbors, have been successfully…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-16 Fabrizio Altarelli , Alfredo Braunstein , Luca Dall'Asta , Riccardo Zecchina

We develop multi-step gradient methods for network-constrained optimization of strongly convex functions with Lipschitz-continuous gradients. Given the topology of the underlying network and bounds on the Hessian of the objective function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Euhanna Ghadimi , Iman Shames , Mikael Johansson

We develop online graph learning algorithms from streaming network data. Our goal is to track the (possibly) time-varying network topology, and effect memory and computational savings by processing the data on-the-fly as they are acquired.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Rasoul Shafipour , Gonzalo Mateos

Many problems in signal processing and machine learning can be formalized as weak submodular optimization tasks. For such problems, a simple greedy algorithm (\textsc{Greedy}) is guaranteed to find a solution achieving the objective with a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo , Gustavo de Veciana

Combinatorial optimization problems are notoriously challenging for neural networks, especially in the absence of labeled instances. This work proposes an unsupervised learning framework for CO problems on graphs that can provide integral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Nikolaos Karalias , Andreas Loukas

Optimization problems over dynamic networks have been extensively studied and widely used in the past decades to formulate numerous real-world problems. However, (1) traditional optimization-based approaches do not scale to large networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Daniele Gammelli , James Harrison , Kaidi Yang , Marco Pavone , Filipe Rodrigues , Francisco C. Pereira

We propose a new scalable method to optimize the architecture of an artificial neural network. The proposed algorithm, called Greedy Search for Neural Network Architecture, aims to determine a neural network with minimal number of layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Junqi Yin , Ying Wai Li , Markus Eisenbach