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This paper presents a robust and efficient very high-order scheme for compressible flow simulation, addressing critical limitations of existing high-order methods. The proposed scheme combines the compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) with an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Junlei Mu , Hong Zhang , Xing Ji , Yang Zhang , Gang Chen , Kun Xu

We propose a method for finding a cumulative distribution function (cdf) that minimizes the distance to a given cdf, while belonging to an ambiguity set constructed relative to another cdf and, possibly, incorporating soft information. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Julio Deride , Johannes O. Royset , Fernanda Urrea

The Jacob's ladder of density functional theory (DFT) proposes the compelling view that by extending the form of successful approximations -- being guided by exact conditions and selected (least empirical) norms -- upper rungs will do…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 Jacques K. Desmarais , Alessandro Erba , Giovanni Vignale , Stefano Pittalis

Density functional calculations on atoms are often used for determining accurate initial guesses as well as generating various types of pseudopotential approximations and efficient atomic-orbital basis sets for polyatomic calculations. To…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Susi Lehtola

We present an explicit method for simulating stochastic differential equations (SDEs) that have variable diffusion coefficients and satisfy the detailed balance condition with respect to a known equilibrium density. In Tupper and Yang…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-27 Paul Tupper , Xin Yang

We present a general-purpose data compression algorithm, Regularized L21 Semi-NonNegative Matrix Factorization (L21 SNF). L21 SNF provides robust, parts-based compression applicable to mixed-sign data for which high fidelity, individualdata…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Anthony D. Rhodes , Bin Jiang

We performed density functional calculations to estimate the formation energies of intermetallic alloys. We used two semilocal approximations, the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) by Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) and the strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-25 Niraj K. Nepal , Santosh Adhikari , Bimal Neupane , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

Balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) imaging enables high scan efficiency in MRI, but differs from conventional sequences in terms of elevated sensitivity to main field inhomogeneity and nonstandard T2/T1-weighted tissue contrast.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-12 Kübra Keskin , Uğur Yılmaz , Tolga Çukur

This paper proposes a computational framework for the design optimization of stable structures under large deformations by incorporating nonlinear buckling constraints. A novel strategy for suppressing spurious buckling modes related to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Guodong Zhang , Kapil Khandelwal , Tong Guo

Self-interaction error (SIE), arising from the imperfect cancellation of the spurious classical Coulomb interaction between an electron and itself, is a persistent challenge in modern density functional approximations. This issue is…

Isogeometric Analysis generalizes classical finite element analysis and intends to integrate it with the field of Computer-Aided Design. A central problem in achieving this objective is the reconstruction of analysis-suitable models from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Thomas Takacs , Deepesh Toshniwal

Invariant-based models for incompressible isotropic hyperelasticity are typically formulated as functions of the first and second invariants, $W = W(\bar{I}_1, \bar{I}_2)$. A widely used class of models employs separable representations of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Simon Wiesheier , Miguel Angel Moreno-Mateos , Paul Steinmann

A mixed basis approach based on density functional theory is extended to one-dimensional(1D) systems. The basis functions here are taken to be the localized B-splines for the two finite non-periodic dimensions and the plane waves for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 Chung-Yuan Ren , Yia-Chung Chang , Chen-Shiung Hsue

Penalized B-splines are routinely used in additive models to describe smooth changes in a response with quantitative covariates. It is typically done through the conditional mean in the exponential family using generalized additive models…

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With the increasing need for handling large state and action spaces, general function approximation has become a key technique in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we propose a general framework that unifies model-based and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Zixiang Chen , Chris Junchi Li , Angela Yuan , Quanquan Gu , Michael I. Jordan

We re-adapt a spectral renormalization method, introduced in nonlinear optics, to solve the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations of density functional theory (DFT), with a focus on functionals based on the strictly-correlated electrons (SCE) regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-23 Juri Grossi , Ziad H. Musslimani , Michael Seidl , Paola Gori-Giorgi

The problem of reconstructing continuous functions over time is important for problems such as reconstructing moving scenes, and interpolating between time steps. Previous approaches that use deep-learning rely on regularization to ensure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Julian Knodt

This paper introduces a novel meshfree methodology based on Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) approximations for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces of codimension 1 embedded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Víctor Bayona , Argyrios Petras , Cécile Piret , Steven J. Ruuth

This work proposes a hybrid modeling framework based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and the finite element (FE) method to approximate model discrepancies in time dependent, multi-fidelity problems, and use the trained hybrid models to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Moritz von Tresckow , Herbert De Gersem , Dimitrios Loukrezis

Conditional density estimation (CDE) - recovering the full conditional distribution of a response given tabular covariates - is essential in settings with heteroscedasticity, multimodality, or asymmetric uncertainty. Recent tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Rafael Izbicki , Pedro L. C. Rodrigues