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The goal of Feature Selection - comprising filter, wrapper, and embedded approaches - is to find the optimal feature subset for designated downstream tasks. Nevertheless, current feature selection methods are limited by: 1) the selection…

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We consider embedding a predictive machine-learning model within a prescriptive optimization problem. In this setting, called constraint learning, we study the concept of a validity domain, i.e., a constraint added to the feasible set,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Yilin Zhu , Samuel Burer

The scaled boundary finite element method is known for its capability in reproducing highly-detailed solution fields. This, however, is only attainable in those cases where analytical solutions exist. Many others invoke the use of numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Alireza Daneshyar , Stefan Kollmannsberger

In the automotive industry, predicting noise during design cycle is a necessary step. Well-known methods exist to answer this issue in low frequency domain. Among these, Finite Element Methods, adapted to closed domains, are quite easy to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Marianne Viallet , Gérald Poumérol , Olivier Dessombz , Louis Jezequel

This paper analyzes two eXtended finite element methods (XFEMs) for linear quadratic optimal control problems governed by Poisson equation in non-convex domains. We follow the variational discretization concept to discretize the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Tao Wang , Chao Chao Yang , Xiaoping Xie

This paper presents high-order numerical methods for solving boundary value problems associated with the Lane-Emden equation, which frequently arises in astrophysics and various nonlinear models. A major challenge in studying this equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Dang Quang A , Nguyen Thanh Huong , Vu Vinh Quang

The Immersed Boundary method is a simple, efficient, and robust numerical scheme for solving PDE in general domains, yet it only achieves first-order spatial accuracy near embedded boundaries. In this paper, we introduce a new high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 David B. Stein , Robert D. Guy , Becca Thomases

A finite difference method is constructed to solve singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problems posed on smooth domains. Constraints are imposed on the data so that only regular exponential boundary layers appear in the solution. A…

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Inspired by regularization techniques in statistics and machine learning, we study complementary composite minimization in the stochastic setting. This problem corresponds to the minimization of the sum of a (weakly) smooth function endowed…

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Simulated annealing is a popular method for approaching the solution of a global optimization problem. Existing results on its performance apply to discrete combinatorial optimization where the optimization variables can assume only a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2007-09-20 A. Lecchini-Visintini , J. Lygeros , J. Maciejowski

In this contribution we develop a cut finite element method with boundary value correction of the type originally proposed by Bramble, Dupont, and Thomee. The cut finite element method is a fictitious domain method with Nitsche type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

This paper investigates a modification of the fictitious domain method with continuation in the lower-order coefficients for the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations governing the motion of an incompressible homogeneous fluid in a bounded 2D or…

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We develop a trust-region method for efficiently minimizing the sum of a smooth function, a nonsmooth convex function, and the composition of a finite-valued support function with a smooth function. Optimization problems with this structure…

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Domain generalization in semantic segmentation faces challenges from domain shifts, particularly under adverse conditions. While diffusion-based data generation methods show promise, they introduce inherent misalignment between generated…

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This paper proposes a strategy to solve the problems of the conventional s-version of finite element method (SFEM) fundamentally. Because SFEM can reasonably model an analytical domain by superimposing meshes with different spatial…

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This paper introduces the Scaled Coordinate Transformation Boundary Element Method (SCTBEM), a novel boundary-type method for solving 3D potential problems. To address the challenges of applying the Boundary Element Method (BEM) to complex…

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Wide variety of engineering design tasks can be formulated as constrained optimization problems where the shape and topology of the domain are optimized to reduce costs while satisfying certain constraints. Several mathematical approaches…

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The finite element method(FEM) is applied to bound leading eigenvalues of Laplace operator over polygonal domain. Compared with classical numerical methods, most of which can only give concrete eigenvalue bounds over special domain of…

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In many scientific studies, it becomes increasingly important to delineate the causal pathways through a large number of mediators, such as genetic and brain mediators. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a popular technique to estimate…

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