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The many-body expansion (MBE) of energies of molecular clusters or solids offers a way to detect and analyze errors of theoretical methods that could go unnoticed if only the total energy of the system was considered. In this regard, the…

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We present a new method for counterfactual explanations (CFEs) based on Bayesian optimisation that applies to both classification and regression models. Our method is a globally convergent search algorithm with support for arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Thomas Spooner , Danial Dervovic , Jason Long , Jon Shepard , Jiahao Chen , Daniele Magazzeni

We introduce a new multi-dimensional nonlinear embedding -- Piecewise Flat Embedding (PFE) -- for image segmentation. Based on the theory of sparse signal recovery, piecewise flat embedding with diverse channels attempts to recover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Chaowei Fang , Zicheng Liao , Yizhou Yu

Continuous signal representations are naturally suited for inverse problems, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography, because the measurements depend on an underlying physically continuous signal. While classical…

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We outline the construction of compatible B-splines on 3D surfaces that satisfy the continuity requirements for electromagnetic scattering analysis with the boundary element method (method of moments). Our approach makes use of Non-Uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Robert N. Simpson , Zhaowei Liu , Ráfael Vazquez , John A. Evans

Graph matching, typically formulated as a Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP), seeks to establish node correspondences between two graphs. To address the NP-hardness of QAP, some existing methods adopt projection-based relaxations that embed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Binrui Shen , Yuan Liang , Shengxin Zhu

Modern classification problems frequently present mild to severe label imbalance as well as specific requirements on classification characteristics, and require optimizing performance measures that are non-decomposable over the dataset,…

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We report a multiscale approach of broad applicability to stochastic reconstruction of multiphase materials, including porous ones. The approach devised uses an optimization method, such as the simulated annealing (SA) and the so-called…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-13 R. Piasecki , W. Olchawa , D. Frączek , R. Wiśniowski

A neuroevolution potential (NEP) for the ternary $\alpha$-Fe--C--H system was developed based on a database generated from spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT) calculations, achieving empirical potential efficiency with DFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Fan-Shun Meng , Shuhei Shinzato , Zhiqiang Zhao , Jun-Ping Du , Lei Gao , Zheyong Fan , Shigenobu Ogata

High-order numerical methods for solving elliptic equations over arbitrary domains typically require specialized machinery, such as high-quality conforming grids for finite elements method, and quadrature rules for boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Saad Qadeer , Boyce E. Griffith

We introduce a symmetric fractional-order reduction (SFOR) method to construct numerical algorithms on general nonuniform temporal meshes for semilinear fractional diffusion-wave equations. By using the novel order reduction method, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Pin Lyu , Seakweng Vong

We are interested in the numerical approximation of non-linear stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with solution in a certain domain. Our goal is to construct explicit numerical schemes that preserve that structure. We generalize the…

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We present DFT-FE 1.0, building on DFT-FE 0.6 [Comput. Phys. Commun. 246, 106853 (2020)], to conduct fast and accurate large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations (reaching ~ $100,000$ electrons) on both many-core CPU and…

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Computational chemistry is a powerful tool for the discovery of novel materials. In particular, it is used to simulate ionic liquids in search of electrolytes for electrochemical applications. Herein, the choice of the computational method…

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Numerical simulations of brittle fracture using phase-field approaches often employ a discrete approximation framework that applies the same order of interpolation for the displacement and phase-field variables. Most common is to use linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Juan Michael Sargado , Eirik Keilegavlen , Inga Berre , Jan Martin Nordbotten

We propose a novel method to model nonlinear regression problems by adapting the principle of penalization to Partial Least Squares (PLS). Starting with a generalized additive model, we expand the additive component of each variable in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-13 Nicole Kraemer , Anne-Laure Boulesteix , Gerhard Tutz

We apply nonparametric Bayesian methods to study the problem of estimating the intensity function of an inhomogeneous Poisson process. We exhibit a prior on intensities which both leads to a computationally feasible method and enjoys…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Eduard Belitser , Paulo Serra , Harry van Zanten

We reexamine results obtained with the recently proposed density functional theory framework based on forces (force-DFT) [Tschopp et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 014115 (2022)]. We compare inhomogeneous density profiles for hard sphere fluids to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

We implement a total-energy minimization scheme to allow for relaxation of atomic positions in density functional calculations for two-dimensional (2D) systems using a mixed basis set. The basis functions consist of products of 2D plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-14 Chung-Yuan Ren , Yia-Chung Chang