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Finding the optimal hyperparameters of a model can be cast as a bilevel optimization problem, typically solved using zero-order techniques. In this work we study first-order methods when the inner optimization problem is convex but…

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xuezhi Liu

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for integrating physics-based constraints and data to address forward and inverse problems in machine learning. Despite their potential, the implementation of PINNs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Alan Williams , Christopher Leon , Alexander Scheinker

Deep learning has been shown to be an effective tool in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) through physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). PINNs embed the PDE residual into the loss function of the neural network, and have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jeremy Yu , Lu Lu , Xuhui Meng , George Em Karniadakis

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have effectively been demonstrated in solving forward and inverse differential equation problems, but they are still trapped in training failures when the target functions to be approximated exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Ye Li , Song-Can Chen , Sheng-Jun Huang

Accelerating the convergence of second-order optimization, particularly Newton-type methods, remains a pivotal challenge in algorithmic research. In this paper, we extend previous work on the \textbf{Quadratic Gradient (QG)} and rigorously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 John Chiang

The application of deep learning methods to speed up the resolution of challenging power flow problems has recently shown very encouraging results. However, power system dynamics are not snap-shot, steady-state operations. These dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Mostafa Mohammadian , Kyri Baker , Ferdinando Fioretto

Computing the Jacobian of the solution of an optimization problem is a central problem in machine learning, with applications in hyperparameter optimization, meta-learning, optimization as a layer, and dataset distillation, to name a few.…

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In recent years, deep learning-based methods have been proposed for solving inverse scattering problems (ISPs), but most of them heavily rely on data and suffer from limited generalization capabilities. In this paper, a new solving scheme…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yutong Du , Zicheng Liu , Bazargul Matkerim , Changyou Li , Yali Zong , Bo Qi , Jingwei Kou

This paper explores the difficulties in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). PINNs use physics as a regularization term in the objective function. However, a drawback of this approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shamsulhaq Basir

The physics solvers employed for neural network training are primarily iterative, and hence, differentiating through them introduces a severe computational burden as iterations grow large. Inspired by works in bilevel optimization, we show…

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Gradient descent method, as one of the major methods in numerical optimization, is the key ingredient in many machine learning algorithms. As one of the most fundamental way to solve the optimization problems, it promises the function value…

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We propose a partially learned approach for the solution of ill posed inverse problems with not necessarily linear forward operators. The method builds on ideas from classical regularization theory and recent advances in deep learning to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Jonas Adler , Ozan Öktem

Optimization theory serves as a pivotal scientific instrument for achieving optimal system performance, with its origins in economic applications to identify the best investment strategies for maximizing benefits. Over the centuries, from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yuhan Ma , Dan Sun , Erdi Gao , Ningjing Sang , Iris Li , Guanming Huang

Regularizing the gradient norm of the output of a neural network with respect to its inputs is a powerful technique, rediscovered several times. This paper presents evidence that gradient regularization can consistently improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Dániel Varga , Adrián Csiszárik , Zsolt Zombori

Efficient gradient computation of the Jacobian determinant term is a core problem in many machine learning settings, and especially so in the normalizing flow framework. Most proposed flow models therefore either restrict to a function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 T. Anderson Keller , Jorn W. T. Peters , Priyank Jaini , Emiel Hoogeboom , Patrick Forré , Max Welling

Neural networks can be used to learn the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on arbitrary domains without requiring a computational mesh. Common approaches integrate differential operators in training neural networks using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Shamsulhaq Basir , Inanc Senocak

The success of deep learning over the past decade mainly relies on gradient-based optimisation and backpropagation. This paper focuses on analysing the performance of first-order gradient-based optimisation algorithms, gradient descent and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Behnam Mafakheri , Iman Shames , Jonathan H. Manton

Power grid operators typically solve large-scale, nonconvex optimal power flow (OPF) problems throughout the day to determine optimal setpoints for generators while adhering to physical constraints. Despite being at the heart of many OPF…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Kyri Baker