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We introduce a novel approach for decomposing and learning every scale of a given multiscale objective function in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $d\ge 1$. This approach leverages a recently demonstrated implicit bias of the optimization method of…
Mesoscale phenomena -- involving a level of description between the finest atomistic scale and the macroscopic continuum -- can be studied by a variation on the usual atomistic-level molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique. In…
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