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The dynamic formulation of optimal transport has attracted growing interests in scientific computing and machine learning, and its computation requires to solve a PDE-constrained optimization problem. The classical Eulerian discretization…

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This paper proposes Hamiltonian Learning, a novel unified framework for learning with neural networks "over time", i.e., from a possibly infinite stream of data, in an online manner, without having access to future information. Existing…

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Given a temporal graph G, a source vertex s, and a departure time at source vertex t_s, the earliest arrival time problem EAT is to start from s on or after t_s and reach all the vertices in G as early as possible. Ni et al. have proposed a…

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We present a Machine Learning approach to solve electronic quantum transport equations of one-dimensional nanostructures. The transmission coefficients of disordered systems were computed to provide training and test datasets to the…

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In this paper we study quantum algorithms for NP-complete problems whose best classical algorithm is an exponential time application of dynamic programming. We introduce the path in the hypercube problem that models many of these dynamic…

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Optimal Transport (OT) problems are a cornerstone of many applications, but solving them is computationally expensive. To address this problem, we propose UNOT (Universal Neural Optimal Transport), a novel framework capable of accurately…

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This paper presents a widely applicable approach to solving (multi-marginal, martingale) optimal transport and related problems via neural networks. The core idea is to penalize the optimization problem in its dual formulation and reduce it…

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Starting from the observation that artificial neural networks are uniquely suited to solving optimisation problems, and most physics problems can be cast as an optimisation task, we introduce a novel way of finding a numerical solution to…

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Iterative solvers are widely used to accurately simulate physical systems. These solvers require initial guesses to generate a sequence of improving approximate solutions. In this contribution, we introduce a novel method to accelerate…

We present an efficient and parsimonious algorithm to solve mixed initial/final-value problems. The algorithm optimally limits the memory storage and the computational time requirements: with respect to a simple forward integration, the…

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We introduce a scheme for probabilistic hypocenter inversion with Stein variational inference. Our approach uses a differentiable forward model in the form of a physics informed neural network, which we train to solve the Eikonal equation.…

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This study investigates numerical methods to solve nonlinear transport problems characterized by various sorption isotherms with a focus on the Freundlich type of isotherms. We describe and compare second order accurate numerical schemes,…

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The optimal mass transport problem gives a geometric framework for optimal allocation, and has recently gained significant interest in application areas such as signal processing, image processing, and computer vision. Even though it can be…

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The recent advent of automated neural network architecture search led to several methods that outperform state-of-the-art human-designed architectures. However, these approaches are computationally expensive, in extreme cases consuming GPU…

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