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Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) surfaces are commonly used within Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools to represent geometric objects. When using isogeometric analysis (IGA), it is possible to use such NURBS geometries for numerical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Michel Make , Thomas Spenke , Norbert Hosters , Marek Behr

We present an adaptive scheme for isogeometric phase-field modeling, to perform suitably graded hierarchical refinement and coarsening on both single- and multi-patch geometries by considering truncated hierarchical spline constructions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Cesare Bracco , Carlotta Giannelli , Alessandro Reali , Michele Torre , Rafael Vázquez

The development of nonlinear optimization algorithms capable of performing reliably in the presence of noise has garnered considerable attention lately. This paper advocates for strategies to create noise-tolerant nonlinear optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Yuchen Lou , Shigeng Sun , Jorge Nocedal

This contribution explores the combined capabilities of reduced basis methods and IsoGeometric Analysis (IGA) in the context of parameterized partial differential equations. The introduction of IGA enables a unified simulation framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Margarita Chasapi , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa

We formulate a general shape and topology optimization problem in structural optimization by using a phase field approach. This problem is considered in view of well-posedness and we derive optimality conditions. We relate the diffuse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Luise Blank , Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Christoph Rupprecht

Optical Neural Networks (ONNs) promise significant advantages over traditional electronic neural networks, including ultrafast computation, high bandwidth, and low energy consumption, by leveraging the intrinsic capabilities of photonics.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Gianluca Kosmella , Ripalta Stabile , Jaron Sanders

Physical systems commonly exhibit spatially varying complexity, presenting a significant challenge for neural PDE solvers. While Graph Neural Networks can handle the irregular meshes required for complex geometries and boundary conditions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Winfried van den Dool , Maksim Zhdanov , Yuki M. Asano , Max Welling

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning strategies for foundation models in 1D textual and 2D visual analysis have demonstrated remarkable efficacy. However, due to the scarcity of point cloud data, pre-training large 3D models remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mengke Li , Lihao Chen , Peng Zhang , Yiu-ming Cheung , Hui Huang

We propose the use of machine learning techniques to find optimal quadrature rules for the construction of stiffness and mass matrices in isogeometric analysis (IGA). We initially consider 1D spline spaces of arbitrary degree spanned over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Tomas Teijeiro , Jamie M. Taylor , Ali Hashemian , David Pardo

Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) typically adopts tensor-product splines and NURBS as a basis for the approximation of the solution of PDEs. In this work, we investigate to which extent IGA solvers can benefit from the so-called sparse-grids…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Joakim Beck , Giancarlo Sangalli , Lorenzo Tamellini

In this paper, we propose an adaptive proximal inexact gradient (APIG) framework for solving a class of nonsmooth composite optimization problems involving function and gradient errors. Unlike existing inexact proximal gradient methods, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xilai Fan , Bo Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu

For solving large-scale non-convex problems, we propose inexact variants of trust region and adaptive cubic regularization methods, which, to increase efficiency, incorporate various approximations. In particular, in addition to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Zhewei Yao , Peng Xu , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Michael W. Mahoney

Addressing the issues of who saying what to whom in multi-party conversations (MPCs) has recently attracted a lot of research attention. However, existing methods on MPC understanding typically embed interlocutors and utterances into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Quan Liu , Cong Liu , Guoping Hu

We propose an Isogeometric approach for smoothing on surfaces, namely estimating a function starting from noisy and discrete measurements. More precisely, we aim at estimating functions lying on a surface represented by NURBS, which are…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-20 Matthieu Wilhelm , Luca Dedè , Laura M. Sangalli , Pierre Wilhelm

Code optimization and high level synthesis can be posed as constraint satisfaction and optimization problems, such as graph coloring used in register allocation. Graph coloring is also used to model more traditional CSPs relevant to AI,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-13 F. A. Aloul , I. L. Markov , A. Ramani , K. A. Sakallah

Hardware distortions (HWD) render drastic effects on the performance of communication systems. They are recently proven to bear asymmetric signatures; and hence can be efficiently mitigated using improper Gaussian signaling (IGS), thanks to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Sidrah Javed , Ahmed Elzanaty , Osama Amin , Basem Shihada , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We present a novel application of neural networks to design improved mixing elements for single-screw extruders. Specifically, we propose to use neural networks in numerical shape optimization to parameterize geometries. Geometry…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Jaewook Lee , Sebastian Hube , Stefanie Elgeti

We investigate the isogeometric analysis for surface PDEs based on the extended Loop subdivision approach. The basis functions consisting of quartic box-splines corresponding to each subdivided control mesh are utilized to represent the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Qing Pan , Timon Rabczuk , Gang Xu , Chong Chen

This contribution investigates the connection between isogeometric analysis and integral equation methods for full-wave electromagnetic problems up to the low-frequency limit. The proposed spline-based integral equation method allows for an…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Maximilian Nolte , Riccardo Torchio , Sebastian Schöps , Jürgen Dölz , Felix Wolf , Albert E. Ruehli

This paper addresses the problem of sound-source localization from time-delay estimates using arbitrarily-shaped non-coplanar microphone arrays. A novel geometric formulation is proposed, together with a thorough algebraic analysis and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Radu Horaud