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We introduce a Monte Carlo method for computing derivatives of the solution to a partial differential equation (PDE) with respect to problem parameters (such as domain geometry or boundary conditions). Derivatives can be evaluated at…

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We present a trust-region-based adaptive finite-element algorithm for numerically solving a class of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems that includes problems with sparsifying regularizers and convex constraints. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Harbir Antil , Robert J. Baraldi , Rohit Khandelwal , Drew P. Kouri

Partial differential equations (PDEs) play a crucial role in studying a vast number of problems in science and engineering. Numerically solving nonlinear and/or high-dimensional PDEs is often a challenging task. Inspired by the traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Yihao Hu , Tong Zhao , Shixin Xu , Zhiliang Xu , Lizhen Lin

Modeling physical phenomena like heat transport and diffusion is crucially dependent on the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). A PDE solver finds the solution given coefficients and a boundary condition, whereas an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ekrem Fatih Yılmazer , Delio Vicini , Wenzel Jakob

In this paper, we address the issue of modeling and estimating changes in the state of the spatio-temporal dynamical systems based on a sequence of observations like video frames. Traditional numerical simulation systems depend largely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kun Wang , Hao Wu , Guibin Zhang , Junfeng Fang , Yuxuan Liang , Yuankai Wu , Roger Zimmermann , Yang Wang

The objective of this study is to address the difficulty of simplifying the geometric model in which a differential problem is formulated, also called defeaturing, while simultaneously ensuring that the accuracy of the solution is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Jochen Hinz , Ondine Chanon , Alessandra Arrigoni , Annalisa Buffa

Monotone finite difference methods provide stable convergent discretizations of a class of degenerate elliptic and parabolic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). These methods are best suited to regular rectangular grids, which leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Adam M. Oberman , Ian Zwiers

Efficient and stable solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is central to scientific and engineering applications, yet existing numerical solvers rely heavily on matrix based discretizations, while learning based methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yi Bing , Zheng Ran , Fu Jinyang , Liu Long , Peng Xiang

We present a novel approach that redefines the traditional interpretation of explicit and implicit discretization methods for solving a general class of advection-diffusion equations (ADEs) featuring nonlinear advection, diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Amin Jafarimoghaddam , Manuel Soler , Irene Ortiz

Neural network-based approaches for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) have recently received special attention. However, the large majority of neural PDE solvers only apply to rectilinear domains, and do not systematically…

We describe an efficient domain decomposition-based framework for nonlinear multiscale PDE problems. The framework is inspired by manifold learning techniques and exploits the tangent spaces spanned by the nearest neighbors to compress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Shi Chen , Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu , Stephen J. Wright

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely used to model biological, (bio-)chemical and technical processes. The parameters of these ODEs are often estimated from experimental data using ODE-constrained optimisation. This article…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Anna Fiedler , Fabian J. Theis , Jan Hasenauer

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lilian Welschinger , Yilin Liu , Zican Wang , Niloy Mitra

A method is developed within an adaptive framework to solve quasilinear diffusion problems with internal and possibly boundary layers starting from a coarse mesh. The solution process is assumed to start on a mesh where the problem is badly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Sara Pollock

A key appeal of the recently proposed Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) framework is that it seems to provide a continuous-time extension of discrete residual neural networks. As we show herein, though, trained Neural ODE models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Katharina Ott , Prateek Katiyar , Philipp Hennig , Michael Tiemann

In this paper, we discuss the solution of certain matrix-valued partial differential equations. Such PDEs arise, for example, when constructing a Riemannian contraction metric for a dynamical system given by an autonomous ODE. We develop…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Peter Giesl , Holger Wendland

Unlike conventional grid and mesh based methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), neural networks have the potential to break the curse of dimensionality, providing approximate solutions to problems where using classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Marc Finzi , Andres Potapczynski , Matthew Choptuik , Andrew Gordon Wilson

There are many numerical methods for solving partial different equations (PDEs) on manifolds such as classical implicit, finite difference, finite element, and isogeometric analysis methods which aim at improving the interoperability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Wenrui Hao , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Margaret H. Regan , Tingting Tang

This paper presents a numerical method for variable coefficient elliptic PDEs with mostly smooth solutions on two dimensional domains. The PDE is discretized via a multi-domain spectral collocation method of high local order (order 30 and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Tracy Babb , Adrianna Gillman , Sijia Hao , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Mixed dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are equations coupling unknown fields defined over domains of differing topological dimension. Such equations naturally arise in a wide range of scientific fields including geology,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Cécile Daversin-Catty , Chris N. Richardson , Ada J. Ellingsrud , Marie E. Rognes