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The study of neural computation aims to understand the function of a neural system as an information processing machine. Neural systems are undoubtedly complex, necessitating principled and automated tools to abstract away details to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Abel Sagodi , Il Memming Park

Elimination of unknowns in a system of differential equations is often required when analysing (possibly nonlinear) dynamical systems models, where only a subset of variables are observable. One such analysis, identifiability, often relies…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Ruiwen Dong , Christian Goodbrake , Heather A Harrington , Gleb Pogudin

Robot design optimization, imitation learning and system identification share a common problem which requires optimization over robot or task parameters at the same time as optimizing the robot motion. To solve these problems, we can use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Traiko Dinev , Carlos Mastalli , Vladimir Ivan , Steve Tonneau , Sethu Vijayakumar

Deep learning has redefined the field of artificial intelligence (AI) thanks to the rise of artificial neural networks, which are architectures inspired by their neurological counterpart in the brain. Through the years, this dualism between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rafal Bogacz , Zhenghua Xu

Many real-world dynamic systems, both natural and artificial, are understood to be performing computations. For artificial dynamic systems, explicitly designed to perform computation - such as digital computers - by construction, we can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 David H. Wolpert , Jan Korbel

Automatic differentiation (AD) is a set of techniques that systematically applies the chain rule to compute the gradients of functions without requiring human intervention. Although the fundamentals of this technology were established…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Afif Boudaoud , Alexandru Calotoiu , Marcin Copik , Torsten Hoefler

The interaction between natural selection and random mutation is frequently debated in recent years. Does similar dilemma also exist in the evolution of real networks such as biological networks? In this paper, we try to discuss this issue…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-07 Zhen Shao , Hai-jun Zhou

Neural network realizes multi-parameter optimization and control by simulating certain mechanisms of the human brain. It can be used in many fields such as signal processing, intelligent driving, optimal combination, vehicle abnormality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yu Qi , Zhaolan Zheng

Meta-learning aims to develop algorithms that can learn from other learning algorithms to adapt to new and changing environments. This requires a model of how other learning algorithms operate and perform in different contexts, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yuwei Sun

Differential evolution is one of the most prestigious population-based stochastic optimization algorithm for black-box problems. The performance of a differential evolution algorithm depends highly on its mutation and crossover strategy and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jianyong Sun , Xin Liu , Thomas Bäck , Zongben Xu

Dynamic regression trees are an attractive option for automatic regression and classification with complicated response surfaces in on-line application settings. We create a sequential tree model whose state changes in time with the…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-11-23 Matthew A. Taddy , Robert B. Gramacy , Nicholas G. Polson

Multi-modal optimization involves identifying multiple global and local optima of a function, offering valuable insights into diverse optimal solutions within the search space. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) excel at finding multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dikshit Chauhan , Shivani , Donghwi Jung , Anupam Yadav

Incorporating a priori physics knowledge into machine learning leads to more robust and interpretable algorithms. In this work, we combine deep learning techniques and classic numerical methods for differential equations to address two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Caitlin Ho , Andrea Arnold

Neural algorithmic reasoning aims to capture computations with neural networks by training models to imitate the execution of classical algorithms. While common architectures are expressive enough to contain the correct model in the weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Gleb Rodionov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

In this paper, a computationally efficient data-driven hybrid automaton model is proposed to capture unknown complex dynamical system behaviors using multiple neural networks. The sampled data of the system is divided by valid partitions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Yejiang Yang , Zihao Mo , Weiming Xiang

Perfect adaptation in a dynamical system is the phenomenon that one or more variables have an initial transient response to a persistent change in an external stimulus but revert to their original value as the system converges to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Tineke Blom , Joris M. Mooij

Feature engineering, a crucial step of machine learning, aims to extract useful features from raw data to improve data quality. In recent years, great efforts have been devoted to Automated Feature Engineering (AutoFE) to replace expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Guanghui Zhu , Zhuoer Xu , Xu Guo , Chunfeng Yuan , Yihua Huang

Differentiable quantum dynamics require automatic differentiation of a complex-valued initial value problem, which numerically integrates a system of ordinary differential equations from a specified initial condition, as well as the…

Estimating and quantifying uncertainty in unknown system parameters from limited data remains a challenging inverse problem in a variety of real-world applications. While many approaches focus on estimating constant parameters, a subset of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-09 Andrea Arnold

Automatic differentiation is a technique which allows a programmer to define a numerical computation via compositions of a broad range of numeric and computational primitives and have the underlying system support the computation of partial…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Samer Abdallah