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The adjoint method, among other sensitivity analysis methods, can fail in chaotic dynamical systems. The result from these methods can be too large, often by orders of magnitude, when the result is the derivative of a long time averaged…
Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) has emerged as a robust relaxation of standard Optimal Transport, particularly effective for handling outliers and mass variations. However, scalable algorithms for UOT, specifically those based on…
The quasidiffusion (QD) method, also known as the Variable Eddington Factor (VEF) method in the astrophysical community, is an established iterative method for accelerating source iterations in SN calculations. A great advantage of the QD…
The reduced-rank method exploits the distortion-variance tradeoff to yield superior solutions for classic problems in statistical signal processing such as parameter estimation and filtering. The central idea is to reduce the variance of…
We consider the well-known method of least squares on an equidistant grid with $N+1$ nodes on the interval $[-1,1]$ with the goal to approximate a function $f\in\mathcal{C}\left[-1,1\right]$ by a polynomial of degree $n$. We investigate the…
We propose a new least squares finite element method to solve the Poisson equation. By using a piecewisely irrotational space to approximate the flux, we split the classical method into two sequential steps. The first step gives the…
In this article, we present new random walk methods to solve flow and transport problems in unsaturated/saturated porous media, including coupled flow and transport processes in soils, heterogeneous systems modeled through random hydraulic…
The relevance of optimal transport methods to machine learning has long been hindered by two salient limitations. First, the $O(n^3)$ computational cost of standard sample-based solvers (when used on batches of $n$ samples) is prohibitive.…
A discrete analysis of the phase and dissipation errors of an explicit, semi-Lagrangian spectral element method is performed. The semi-Lagrangian method advects the Lagrange interpolant according the Lagrangian form of the transport…
We study a novel alternative approach for the computation of transport coefficients at mesoscales. While standard nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) approaches fix the forcing and measure the average induced flux in the system driven…
Two primary scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approaches are widely applied for simulating gradient flow systems, i.e., the nonlinear energy-based approach and the Lagrange multiplier approach. The former guarantees unconditional energy…
We introduce a new second order stochastic algorithm to estimate the entropically regularized optimal transport cost between two probability measures. The source measure can be arbitrary chosen, either absolutely continuous or discrete,…
Support vector machines (SVMs) are powerful supervised learning tools developed to solve classification problems. However, SVMs are likely to perform poorly in the classification of imbalanced data. The rough set theory presents a…
Wireless sensor network has recently received much attention due to its broad applicability and ease-of-installation. This paper is concerned with a distributed state estimation problem, where all sensor nodes are required to achieve a…
We propose sequential transport (ST), a distributional framework for mediation analysis that combines optimal transport (OT) with a mediator directed acyclic graph (DAG). Instead of relying on cross-world counterfactual assumptions, ST…
Using particle-scale simulations of non-suspended sediment transport for a large range of Newtonian fluids driving transport, including air and water, we determine the bulk transport cessation threshold $\Theta^r_t$ by extrapolating the…
We demonstrate an efficient nonequilibrium Green's function transport calculation procedure based on the real-space finite-difference method. The direct inversion of matrices for obtaining the self-energy terms of electrodes is…
In this note we take a new look at the local convergence of alternating optimization methods for low-rank matrices and tensors. Our abstract interpretation as sequential optimization on moving subspaces yields insightful reformulations of…
A third-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory compact least-squares scheme is developed for the finite volume method on structured curvilinear non-uniform grids. The proposed scheme features compact least-squares reconstruction with…
Adaptive control strategies usually are designed based on gradient methods for the sake of simplicity in Lyapunov analysis. However, least squares (LS)-based parameter identifiers, with proper selection of design parameters, exhibit better…