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Production optimization in stress-sensitive unconventional reservoirs is governed by a nonlinear trade-off between pressure-driven flow and stress-induced degradation of fracture conductivity and matrix permeability. While higher drawdown…

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We introduce a practical method to enforce partial differential equation (PDE) constraints for functions defined by neural networks (NNs), with a high degree of accuracy and up to a desired tolerance. We develop a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Geoffrey Négiar , Michael W. Mahoney , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently become a popular method for solving forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). By incorporating the residual of the PDE into the loss function of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Saviz Mowlavi , Saleh Nabi

We present a data-driven control framework for partial differential equations (PDEs). Our approach integrates Time-Integrated Deep Operator Networks (TI-DeepONets) as differentiable PDE surrogate models within the Differentiable Predictive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Dibakar Roy Sarkar , Ján Drgoňa , Somdatta Goswami

In many real world applications of machine learning, models have to meet certain domain-based requirements that can be expressed as constraints (e.g., safety-critical constraints in autonomous driving systems). Such constraints are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Kshitij Goyal , Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

Neural PDE solvers are often described as learning solution operators that map problem data to PDE solutions. In this work, we argue that this interpretation is generally incorrect when boundary conditions vary. We show that standard neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Lennon J. Shikhman

In recent years, deep learning has proven to be a viable methodology for surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification for a vast number of physical systems. However, in their traditional form, such models can require a large amount of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Nicholas Geneva , Nicholas Zabaras

We consider a class of learning problem of point estimation for modeling high-dimensional nonlinear functions, whose learning dynamics is guided by model training dataset, while the estimated parameter in due course provides an acceptable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Getachew K. Befekadu

We derive novel algorithms for optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations describing multiscale particle dynamics, including non-local integral terms representing interactions between particles. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Mildred Aduamoah , Benjamin D. Goddard , John W. Pearson , Jonna C. Roden

We consider linear model reduction in both the control and state variables for unconstrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to time-varying parabolic PDEs. The first-order optimality condition for a state-space reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Michael Kartmann , Stefan Volkwein

This work addresses an optimal control problem constrained by a degenerate kinetic equation of parabolic-hyperbolic type. Using a hypocoercivity framework we establish the well-posedness of the problem and demonstrate that the optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Aaron Pim , Tristan Pryer , Alex Trenam

Optimal control problems naturally arise in many scientific applications where one wishes to steer a dynamical system from a certain initial state $\mathbf{x}_0$ to a desired target state $\mathbf{x}^*$ in finite time $T$. Recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Lucas Böttcher , Thomas Asikis

In this contribution we develop an efficient reduced order model for solving parametrized linear-quadratic optimal control problems with linear time-varying state system. The fully reduced model combines reduced basis approximations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Hendrik Kleikamp , Lukas Renelt

In the development of model predictive controllers for PDE-constrained problems, the use of reduced order models is essential to enable real-time applicability. Besides local linearization approaches, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Sebastian Peitz , Stefan Klus

In design, fabrication, and control problems, we are often faced with the task of synthesis, in which we must generate an object or configuration that satisfies a set of constraints while maximizing one or more objective functions. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Xingyuan Sun , Tianju Xue , Szymon Rusinkiewicz , Ryan P. Adams

The quest for optimal operation in environments with unknowns and uncertainties is highly desirable but critically challenging across numerous fields. This paper develops a dual control framework for exploration and exploitation (DCEE) to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Zhongguo Li , Wen-Hua Chen , Jun Yang , Yunda Yan

This paper introduces an optimal control framework to address the inverse problem using a learned regularizer, with applications in image reconstruction. We build upon the concept of Learnable Optimization Algorithms (LOA), which combine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Wanyu Bian

This paper is concerned with second-order optimality conditions for Tikhonov regularized optimal control problems governed by the obstacle problem. Using a simple observation that allows to characterize the structure of optimal controls on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Constantin Christof , Gerd Wachsmuth

We develop a novel computational framework to approximate solution operators of evolution partial differential equations (PDEs). By employing a general nonlinear reduced-order model, such as a deep neural network, to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Nathan Gaby , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou

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