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Kinetic equations are crucial for modeling non-equilibrium phenomena, but their computational complexity is a challenge. This paper presents a data-driven approach using reduced order models (ROM) to efficiently model non-equilibrium flows…
Low rank approximation is a commonly occurring problem in many computer vision and machine learning applications. There are two common ways of optimizing the resulting models. Either the set of matrices with a given rank can be explicitly…
Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) is important because direct methods, such as Filtered Back-Projection (FBP) can introduce significant noise and artifacts in sparse-angle tomography, especially for time-evolving samples. Although…
Iterative learning control (ILC) is a method for reducing system tracking or estimation errors over multiple iterations by using information from past iterations. The disturbance observer (DOB) is used to estimate and mitigate disturbances…
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The control of bilinear systems has attracted considerable attention in the field of systems and control for decades, owing to their prevalence in diverse applications across science and engineering disciplines. Although much work has been…
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We propose a novel algorithm based on inexact GMRES methods for linear response calculations in density functional theory. Such calculations require iteratively solving a nested linear problem $\mathcal{E} \delta\rho = b$ to obtain the…