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Deep learning has shown successful application in visual recognition and certain artificial intelligence tasks. Deep learning is also considered as a powerful tool with high flexibility to approximate functions. In the present work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Ayan Chakraborty , Thomas Wick , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

Splitting methods constitute a widely used class of numerical integrators for ordinary and partial differential equations, particularly well suited to problems that can be decomposed into simpler subproblems. High-order splitting schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Fernando Casas , Ander Murua

We derive a computable a posteriori error estimator for the $\alpha$-harmonic extension problem, which localizes the fractional powers of elliptic operators supplemented with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Our a posteriori error estimator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Long Chen , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otárola , Abner J. Salgado

An a posteriori error estimator based on an equilibrated flux reconstruction is proposed for defeaturing problems in the context of finite element discretizations. Defeaturing consists in the simplification of a geometry by removing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Annalisa Buffa , Ondine Chanon , Denise Grappein , Rafael Vázquez , Martin Vohralík

We introduce and explain key relations between a posteriori error estimates and subspace correction methods viewed as preconditioners for problems in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. We set the stage using the Finite Element Exterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yuwen Li , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

We describe a posteriori error analysis for a discontinuous Galerkin method for a fourth order elliptic interface problem that arises from a linearized model of thin sheet folding. The primary contribution is a local efficiency bound for an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Harbir Antil , Sean P. Carney , Rohit Khandelwal

We examine the problem of construction of confidence intervals within the basic single-parameter, single-iteration variation of the method of quasi-optimal weights. Two kinds of distortions of such intervals due to insufficiently large…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-05-27 A. D. Morozov , A. V. Lokhov , F. V. Tkachov

Floating-point round-off errors are ubiquitous in numerically intensive programs arising in fields such as scientific computing and optimization. As floating-point errors potentially lead to unexpected and catastrophic program failures, one…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yichen Tao , Hongfei Fu , Jiawei Chen , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

We use the law of total variance to generate multiple expansions for the posterior predictive variance. These expansions are sums of terms involving conditional expectations and conditional variances and provide a quantification of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Sanjay Chaudhuri , Dean Dustin , Bertrand Clarke

We develop the \textit{a posteriori} error analysis of three mixed finite element formulations for rotation-based equations in elasticity, poroelasticity, and interfacial elasticity-poroelasticity. The discretisations use $H^1$-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 VerÓnica Anaya , Arbaz Khan , David Mora , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

For the model problem of the heat equation discretized by an implicit Euler method in time and a conforming finite element method in space, we prove the efficiency of a posteriori error estimators with respect to the energy norm of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Iain Smears

We derive computable upper bounds for the difference between an exact solution of the evolutionary convection-diffusion problem and an approximation of this solution. The estimates are obtained by certain transformations of the integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Sergey I. Repin , Satyendra K. Tomar

This paper presents a posteriori error estimates for conforming numerical approximations of eigenvalue clusters of second-order self-adjoint elliptic linear operators with compact resolvent. Given a cluster of eigenvalues, we estimate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Eric Cancès , Geneviève Dusson , Yvon Maday , Benjamin Stamm , Martin Vohralík

A novel residual-type {\it a posteriori} error analysis technique is developed for multipoint flux mixed finite element methods for flow in porous media in two or three space dimensions. The derived {\it a posteriori} error estimator for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Shaohong Du , Shuyu Sun , Xiaoping Xie

Uncertainty representation and quantification are paramount in machine learning and constitute an important prerequisite for safety-critical applications. In this paper, we propose novel measures for the quantification of aleatoric and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Paul Hofman , Yusuf Sale , Eyke Hüllermeier

We provide a posteriori error estimates in the energy norm for temporal semi-discretisations of wave maps into spheres that are based on the angular momentum formulation. Our analysis is based on novel weak-strong stability estimates which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Jan Giesselmann , Elena Mäder-Baumdicker , David Jakob Stonner

This paper investigates the iterates $\hbb^1,\dots,\hbb^T$ obtained from iterative algorithms in high-dimensional linear regression problems, in the regime where the feature dimension $p$ is comparable with the sample size $n$, i.e., $p…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-30 Pierre C. Bellec , Kai Tan

We propose a new optimization framework for aleatoric uncertainty estimation in regression problems. Existing methods can quantify the error in the target estimation, but they tend to underestimate it. To obtain the predictive uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Takumi Kawashima , Qing Yu , Akari Asai , Daiki Ikami , Kiyoharu Aizawa

In this paper, we study two residual-based a posteriori error estimators for the $C^0$ interior penalty method in solving the biharmonic equation in a polygonal domain under a concentrated load. The first estimator is derived directly from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Huihui Cao , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

The numerical approximation of convection-dominated problems continues to remain subject of strong interest. Families of stabilization techniques for finite element methods were developed in the past. Adaptive techniques based on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Kristina Schwegler , Marius P. Bruchhäuser , Markus Bause