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In this work, we introduce an iterative linearised finite element method for the solution of Bingham fluid flow problems. The proposed algorithm has the favourable property that a subsequence of the sequence of iterates generated converges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Pascal Heid , Endre Süli

We propose a unified framework that employs variational inference (VI) with (conditional) normalizing flows (NFs) to train both between-model and within-model proposals for reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo, enabling efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Pingping Yin , Xiyun Jiao

Invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations play an important role in the spatiotemporally chaotic dynamics of turbulent shear flows. Despite the significance of these solutions, their identification remains a computational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-11 Omid Ashtari , Tobias M. Schneider

Numerous applications of machine learning involve representing probability distributions over high-dimensional data. We propose autoregressive quantile flows, a flexible class of normalizing flow models trained using a novel objective based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Phillip Si , Allan Bishop , Volodymyr Kuleshov

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are fundamental for generative modeling and image reconstruction, yet their performance often struggles to maintain high fidelity in reconstructions. This study introduces a hybrid model, quantum variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Farina Riaz , Fakhar Zaman , Hajime Suzuki , Sharif Abuadbba , David Nguyen

Recent advances in learned image compression (LIC) have achieved remarkable performance improvements over traditional codecs. Notably, the MLIC series-LICs equipped with multi-reference entropy models-have substantially surpassed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Wei Jiang , Yongqi Zhai , Jiayu Yang , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

This paper presents a novel mass-conservative mixed multiscale method for solving flow equations in heterogeneous porous media. The media properties (the permeability) contain multiple scales and high contrast. The proposed method solves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

The affine inverse eigenvalue problem consists of identifying a real symmetric matrix with a prescribed set of eigenvalues in an affine space. Due to its ubiquity in applications, various instances of the problem have been widely studied in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Utkan Candogan , Yong Sheng Soh , Venkat Chandrasekaran

We consider fully discrete finite element approximation of the stochastic total variation flow equation (STVF) with linear multiplicative noise which was previously proposed in \cite{our_paper}. Due to lack of a discrete counterpart of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Ľubomír Baňas , Michael Röckner , André Wilke

Over recent decades, significant advancements in cross-modal retrieval are mainly driven by breakthroughs in visual and linguistic modeling. However, a recent study shows that multi-modal data representations tend to cluster within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Xiangru Jian , Yimu Wang

We consider a nonlinear extension of the generalized network flow model, with the flow leaving an arc being an increasing concave function of the flow entering it, as proposed by Truemper and Shigeno. We give a polynomial time combinatorial…

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Dual averaging-type methods are widely used in industrial machine learning applications due to their ability to promoting solution structure (e.g., sparsity) efficiently. In this paper, we propose a novel accelerated dual-averaging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Conghui Tan , Yuqiu Qian , Shiqian Ma , Tong Zhang

The inverse of an invertible convolution is an important operation that comes up in Normalizing Flows, Image Deblurring, etc. The naive algorithm for backpropagation of this operation using Gaussian elimination has running time $O(n^3)$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Sandeep Nagar , Girish Varma

Various problems in computer vision and medical imaging can be cast as inverse problems. A frequent method for solving inverse problems is the variational approach, which amounts to minimizing an energy composed of a data fidelity term and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

A material-based, i.e., Lagrangian, methodology for exact integration of flux by volume-preserving flows through a surface has been developed recently in [Karrasch, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 76 (2016), pp. 1178-1190]. In the present paper, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-12 Florian Hofherr , Daniel Karrasch

Recent advances in machine learning have led to the development of new methods for enhancing Monte Carlo methods such as Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and importance sampling (IS). One such method is normalizing flows, which use a neural…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-12 Charly Andral

Learned image compression has recently shown the potential to outperform the standard codecs. State-of-the-art rate-distortion (R-D) performance has been achieved by context-adaptive entropy coding approaches in which hyperprior and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Mohammad Akbari , Jie Liang , Jingning Han , Chengjie Tu

Dual gradient descent combined with early stopping represents an efficient alternative to the Tikhonov variational approach when the regularizer is strongly convex. However, for many relevant applications, it is crucial to deal with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Vassilis Apidopoulos , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

In the past few years, deep generative models, such as generative adversarial networks \autocite{GAN}, variational autoencoders \autocite{vaepaper}, and their variants, have seen wide adoption for the task of modelling complex data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-02 Guilherme G. P. Freitas Pires , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Purpose: To propose an alternating learning approach to learn the sampling pattern (SP) and the parameters of variational networks (VN) in accelerated parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Methods: The approach alternates between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Marcelo V. W. Zibetti , Florian Knoll , Ravinder R. Regatte