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Ordinary differential equation (ODE) models of gradient-based optimization methods can provide insights into the dynamics of learning and inspire the design of new algorithms. Unfortunately, this thought-provoking perspective is weakened by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Antonio Orvieto , Aurelien Lucchi

Data-driven modeling of constrained multibody dynamics remains challenged by (i) the training cost of Neural ODEs, which typically require backpropagation through an ODE solver, and (ii) error accumulation in rollout predictions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hongyu Wang , Jingquan Wang , Dan Negrut

Continuous deep learning architectures enable learning of flexible probabilistic models for predictive modeling as neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs), and for generative modeling as continuous normalizing flows. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Lucas Liebenwein , Ramin Hasani , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus

Embedding nonlinear dynamical systems into artificial neural networks is a powerful new formalism for machine learning. By parameterizing ordinary differential equations (ODEs) as neural network layers, these Neural ODEs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mikko Lehtimäki , Lassi Paunonen , Marja-Leena Linne

Neural networks are discrete entities: subdivided into discrete layers and parametrized by weights which are iteratively optimized via difference equations. Recent work proposes networks with layer outputs which are no longer quantized but…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Stefano Massaroli , Michael Poli , Federico Califano , Angela Faragasso , Jinkyoo Park , Atsushi Yamashita , Hajime Asama

Classical neural ODEs trained with explicit methods are intrinsically limited by stability, crippling their efficiency and robustness for stiff learning problems that are common in graph learning and scientific machine learning. We present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hong Zhang , Ying Liu , Romit Maulik

Flow models parameterized as time-dependent velocity fields can generate data from noise by integrating an ODE. These models are often trained using flow matching, i.e. by sampling random pairs of noise and target points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Stephen Y. Zhang , Michal Klein , Marco Cuturi

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in domains such as image synthesis, video generation, and natural language modeling. In this work, we extend these advances to weight space learning by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Daniel Saragih , Deyu Cao , Tejas Balaji

Gradient-based optimization of neural differential equations and other parameterized dynamical systems fundamentally relies on the ability to differentiate numerical solutions with respect to model parameters. In stiff systems, it has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Colby Fronk , Linda Petzold

Since the advent of the ``Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (Neural ODE)'' paper, learning ODEs with deep learning has been applied to system identification, time-series forecasting, and related areas. Exploiting the diffeomorphic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-27 Yuji Okamoto , Tomoya Takeuchi , Yusuke Sakemi

Partial differential equation (PDE) simulation holds extensive significance in scientific research. Currently, the integration of deep neural networks to learn solution operators of PDEs has introduced great potential. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Haosen Li , Qi Meng , Jiahao Li , Rui Zhang , Ruihua Song , Liang Ma , Zhi-Ming Ma

In this paper we introduce CorticalFlow, a new geometric deep-learning model that, given a 3-dimensional image, learns to deform a reference template towards a targeted object. To conserve the template mesh's topological properties, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Léo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Frédéric de Gournay , Darren Fu , Pierrick Bourgeat , Jurgen Fripp , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

This paper proposes the Nerual Energy Descent (NED) via neural network evolution equations for a wide class of deep learning problems. We show that deep learning can be reformulated as the evolution of network parameters in an evolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Wenrui Hao , Chunmei Wang , Xingjian Xu , Haizhao Yang

Optimal experimental design (OED) aims to choose the observations in an experiment to be as informative as possible, according to certain statistical criteria. In the linear case (when the observations depend linearly on the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Ruhui Jin , Martin Guerra , Qin Li , Stephen Wright

We develop a novel data-driven framework as an alternative to dynamic flux balance analysis, bypassing the demand for deep domain knowledge and manual efforts to formulate the optimization problem. The proposed framework is end-to-end,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Santanu Rathod , Pietro Lio , Xiao Zhang

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) are geometric deep learning models based on dynamical systems and flows generated by vector fields on manifolds. Despite numerous successful applications, particularly within the flow matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Per Åhag , Alexander Friedrich , Fredrik Ohlsson , Viktor Vigren Näslund

We propose a novel second-order ODE as the continuous-time limit of a Riemannian accelerated gradient-based method on a manifold with curvature bounded from below. This ODE can be seen as a generalization of the ODE derived for Euclidean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Foivos Alimisis , Antonio Orvieto , Gary Bécigneul , Aurelien Lucchi

The infinite-depth paradigm pioneered by Neural ODEs has launched a renaissance in the search for novel dynamical system-inspired deep learning primitives; however, their utilization in problems of non-trivial size has often proved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Michael Poli , Stefano Massaroli , Atsushi Yamashita , Hajime Asama , Jinkyoo Park

Residual neural networks are state-of-the-art deep learning models. Their continuous-depth analog, neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs), are also widely used. Despite their success, the link between the discrete and continuous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-08 Pierre Marion , Yu-Han Wu , Michael E. Sander , Gérard Biau

We present theoretical convergence guarantees for ODE-based generative models, specifically flow matching. We use a pre-trained autoencoder network to map high-dimensional original inputs to a low-dimensional latent space, where a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-30 Yuling Jiao , Yanming Lai , Yang Wang , Bokai Yan