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Incorporating the concept of order parameter of the mean-field theory into the simulated annealing method, we presented a new optimization algorithm, the guided simulated annealing method. In this method mean-field order parameters are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. I. Chou , R. S. Han , S. P. Li , T. K. Lee

The space of images can be equipped with a Riemannian metric measuring both the cost of transport of image intensities and the variation of image intensities along motion lines. The resulting metamorphosis model was introduced and analyzed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Alexander Effland , Martin Rumpf , Florian Schäfer

We present a framework for fine-tuning flow-matching generative models to enforce physical constraints and solve inverse problems in scientific systems. Starting from a model trained on low-fidelity or observational data, we apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jan Tauberschmidt , Sophie Fellenz , Sebastian J. Vollmer , Andrew B. Duncan

Image segmentation is a fundamental topic in image processing and has been studied for many decades. Deep learning-based supervised segmentation models have achieved state-of-the-art performance but most of them are limited by using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Xu Chen , Xiangde Luo , Yitian Zhao , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang , Yalin Zheng

We propose Drift-Resistant Navigation World Model, a generative model that mitigates both perceptual drift and geometric drift in conventional rollout-based navigation world models. Existing methods recursively feed generated content into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Po-Chien Luan , Zimin Xia , Wuyang Li , Yang Gao , Alexandre Alahi

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions subject to linear linking constraints. The classical alternating direction type methods usually assume that the two convex functions have relatively easy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper, a local-global model reduction method is presented to solve stochastic optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). If the optimal control problems involve uncertainty, we need to use a few…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Lingling Ma , Qiuqi Li , Lijian Jiang

We present a new partially linearized mapping-based approach for approximating real-time quantum correlation functions in condensed-phase nonadiabatic systems, called spin-PLDM. Within a classical trajectory picture, partially linearized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 J. R. Mannouch , J. O. Richardson

The motion planning problem involves finding a collision-free path from a robot's starting to its target configuration. Recently, self-supervised learning methods have emerged to tackle motion planning problems without requiring expensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Ruiqi Ni , Zherong Pan , Ahmed H Qureshi

This work considers a Motion Planning Problem with Dynamic Obstacles (MPDO) in 2D that requires finding a minimum-arrival-time collision-free trajectory for a point robot between its start and goal locations amid dynamic obstacles moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Inverse design of morphing slender structures with programmable curvature has significant applications in various engineering fields. Most existing studies formulate it as an optimization problem, which requires repeatedly solving the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-28 JiaHao Li , Weicheng Huang , YinBo Zhu , Luxia Yu , Xiaohao Sun , Mingchao Liu , HengAn Wu

Euler's Elastica based unsupervised segmentation models have strong capability of completing the missing boundaries for existing objects in a clean image, but they are not working well for noisy images. This paper aims to establish a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Lu Tan , Ling Li , Wanquan Liu , Jie Sun , Min Zhang

Given a smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, compact and without boundary, we analyze the dynamical optimal mass transport problem where the cost is given by the sum of the kinetic energy and the relative entropy with respect to a reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Gabriele Bocchi , Alessio Porretta

Common computational problems, such as parameter estimation in dynamic models and PDE constrained optimization, require data fitting over a set of auxiliary parameters subject to physical constraints over an underlying state. Naive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Tristan van Leeuwen

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces are fundamental to scientific computing and geometry processing. A popular approach to solving PDEs on surfaces is the finite element method (FEM), where the surface is divided into discrete…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pranav Jain , Navami Kairanda , Peter Yichen Chen , Oded Stein

This paper proposes a friction model parameter identification routine that can work with highly nonlinear and chaotic systems. The chosen system for this study is a passively-actuated tilted Furuta pendulum, which is known to have a highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Ali Wadi , Shayok Mukhopadhyay , Lotfi Romdhane

Following a previous idea, a curved geometry is proposed as being valid in accelerated systems, in Minkowski space. The curvature turns out to be generated by the source of the accelerated motion. An exponential factor depending on $\rho$…

General Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Hristu Culetu

We consider a Finslerian type geometrization of the non-relativistic quantum mechanics in its hydrodynamical (Madelung) formulation, by also taking into account the effects of the presence of the electromagnetic fields on the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Shi-Dong Liang , Sorin V. Sabau , Tiberiu Harko

We present a numerical method to model the dynamics of inextensible biomembranes in a quasi-Newtonian incompressible flow, which better describes hemorheology in the small vasculature. We consider a level set model for the fluid-membrane…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Aymen Laadhari , Ahmad Deeb

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