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Before a car-following model can be applied in practice, it must first be validated against real data in a process known as calibration. This paper discusses the formulation of calibration as an optimization problem, and compares different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ronan Keane , H. Oliver Gao

The fully discrete adjoint equations and the corresponding adjoint method are derived for a globally high- order accurate discretization of conservation laws on parametrized, deforming domains. The conservation law on the deforming domain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Matthew J. Zahr , Per-Olof Persson

The paper contributes to strengthening the relation between machine learning and the theory of differential equations. In this context, the inverse problem of fitting the parameters, and the initial condition of a differential equation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Imre Fekete , András Molnár , Péter L. Simon

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

This paper introduces a novel approach to compute the numerical fluxes at the cell boundaries for a cell-centered conservative numerical scheme. Explicit gradients used in deriving the reconstruction polynomials are replaced by high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi , Natan Hoffmann , Hiroaki Nishikawa , Steven H. Frankel

In this paper, we develop a nonparametric system identification method for the nonlinear gradient-flow dynamics. In these systems, the vector field is the gradient field of a potential energy function. This fundamental fact about the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Mohammad Khosravi , Roy S. Smith

Metabolic flux analysis using 13C labeled substrates is an important tool for metabolic engineering. Although it has now been evolving for more than ten years, metabolic flux analysis has still not reached the limits of its application.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-25 Stéphane Mottelet

This document, as the title stated, is meant to provide a vectorized implementation of adjoint dynamics calculation for Graph Convolutional Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (GCDE). The adjoint sensitivity method is the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jack Cai

In this work, we investigate the use of data-driven equation discovery for dynamical systems to model and forecast continuous-time dynamics of unconstrained optimization problems. To avoid expensive evaluations of the objective function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Grant Norman , Conor Rowan , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

While methods exist for aligning flow matching models--a popular and effective class of generative models--with human preferences, existing approaches fail to achieve both adaptation efficiency and probabilistically sound prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhen Liu , Tim Z. Xiao , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Weiyang Liu , Dinghuai Zhang

This paper develops a framework connecting discrete adjoint gradient-error analysis with an optimization method that uses directional error tolerances, and applies it to airfoil shape optimization governed by a conservative full-potential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Humberto Gimenes Macedo , Luís Felipe Bueno

We obtain the analytic adjoint solution for two-dimensional (2D) incompressible potential flow for a cost function measuring aerodynamic force using the connection of the adjoint approach to Green's functions and also by establishing and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-12 Carlos Lozano , Jorge Ponsin

The adjoint sensitivity method scalably computes gradients of solutions to ordinary differential equations. We generalize this method to stochastic differential equations, allowing time-efficient and constant-memory computation of gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xuechen Li , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong , Ricky T. Q. Chen , David Duvenaud

In this article we consider an optimization problem where the objective function is evaluated at the fixed-point of a contraction mapping parameterized by a control variable, and optimization takes place over this control variable. Since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Thomas Flynn

In a variety of problems originating in supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, the loss function is defined by an expectation over a collection of random variables, which might be part of a probabilistic model or the external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-06 John Schulman , Nicolas Heess , Theophane Weber , Pieter Abbeel

The paper is concerned with a scalar conservation law with discontinuous gradient-dependent flux. Namely, the flux is described by two different functions $f(u)$ or $g(u)$, when the gradient $u_x$ of the solution is positive or negative,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Debora Amadori , Alberto Bressan , Wen Shen

Applications for kinetic equations such as optimal design and inverse problems often involve finding unknown parameters through gradient-based optimization algorithms. Based on the adjoint-state method, we derive two different frameworks…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Russel Caflisch , Denis Silantyev , Yunan Yang

In this paper, we discuss selected adjoint approaches for the turbulent flow control. In particular, we focus on the application of adjoint solvers for the scope of noise reduction, in which flow solutions are obtained by large eddy and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Emre Özkaya , Nicolas R. Gauger , Daniel Marinc , Holger Foysi

This paper introduces a novel approach to compute the numerical fluxes at the cell boundaries in the finite volume approach. Explicit gradients used in deriving the reconstruction polynomials are replaced by high-order gradients computed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi , Steven H. Frankel , Abhishek Chintagunta

This paper presents a gradient-based reconstruction approach for simulations of compressible single and multi-species Navier-Stokes equations. The novel feature of the proposed algorithm is the efficient reconstruction via derivative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-29 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi