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Many core problems in nonlinear systems analysis and control can be recast as solving partial differential equations (PDEs) such as Lyapunov and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged…

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We propose and analyze reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem that involves a nondifferentiable cost functional, the Poisson problem as state equation and control constraints. To approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otárola

This work is devoted to the nonlinear inverse problem of identifying the reaction coefficient in an elliptic boundary value problem from single Cauchy data on a part of the boundary. We then examine simultaneously two elliptic boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) describe phenomena ranging from turbulence and epidemics to quantum mechanics and financial markets. Despite recent advances in computational science, solving such PDEs for real-world applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Lothar Heimbach , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Petr Karnakov , Francis J. Alexander , Petros Koumoutsakos

We present a framework for recovering/approximating unknown time-dependent partial differential equation (PDE) using its solution data. Instead of identifying the terms in the underlying PDE, we seek to approximate the evolution operator of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Kailiang Wu , Dongbin Xiu

Approximate solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) obtained by neural networks are highly affected by hyper parameter settings. For instance, the model training strongly depends on loss function design, including the choice of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Hee Jun Yang , Alexander Heinlein , Hyea Hyun Kim

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are typically used as models of physical processes but are also of great interest in PDE-based image processing. However, when it comes to their use in imaging, conventional numerical methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Pascal Tom Getreuer , Peyman Milanfar , Xiyang Luo

The stationary, axisymmetric reduction of the vacuum Einstein equations, the so-called Ernst equation, is an integrable nonlinear PDE in two dimensions. There now exists a general method for analyzing boundary value problems for integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Lenells , A. S. Fokas

This paper concerns the numerical resolution of a data completion problem for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in the electric field. The aim is to recover the missing data on the inaccessible part of the boundary of a bounded domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Marion Darbas , Jérémy Heleine , Stephanie Lohrengel

We propose a neural network-based meta-learning method to efficiently solve partial differential equation (PDE) problems. The proposed method is designed to meta-learn how to solve a wide variety of PDE problems, and uses the knowledge for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-23 Tomoharu Iwata , Yusuke Tanaka , Naonori Ueda

Second-order partial differential equations in non-divergence form are considered. Equations of this kind typically arise as subproblems for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in the context of stochastic optimal control, or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Jan Blechschmidt , Roland Herzog , Max Winkler

The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is challenging because of the need to resolve spatiotemporal features over wide length and timescales. Often, it is computationally intractable to resolve the finest features…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-22 Yohai Bar-Sinai , Stephan Hoyer , Jason Hickey , Michael P. Brenner

Identifying unknown differential equations from a given set of discrete time dependent data is a challenging problem. A small amount of noise can make the recovery unstable, and nonlinearity and differential equations with varying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Sung Ha Kang , Wenjing Liao , Yingjie Liu

We investigate mathematically a nonlinear approximation type approach recently introduced in [A. Ammar et al., J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 2006] to solve high dimensional partial differential equations. We show the link between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-11-05 C. Le Bris , T. Lelievre , Y. Maday

The $P_1$--nonconforming quadrilateral finite element space with periodic boundary condition is investigated. The dimension and basis for the space are characterized with the concept of minimally essential discrete boundary conditions. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Jaeryun Yim , Dongwoo Sheen

In this paper we present some open problems pertaining to the approximation theory involved in the solution of the important class of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (NPDEs) of integrable type. For this class of NPDEs, any Initial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-15 Luisa Fermo , Cornelis Van der Mee , Sebastiano Seatzu

A large system of ordinary differential equations is approximated by a parabolic partial differential equation with dynamic boundary condition and a different one with Robin boundary condition. Using the theory of differential operators…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-26 András Bátkai , Ágnes Havasi , Róbert Horváth , Dávid Kunszenti-Kovács , Péter L. Simon

We present effective numerical algorithms for locally recovering unknown governing differential equations from measurement data. We employ a set of standard basis functions, e.g., polynomials, to approximate the governing equation with high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Kailiang Wu , Dongbin Xiu

Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) are key ingredients in a number of models in physics and financial engineering. In particular, parabolic PDEs and BSDEs are fundamental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Weinan E , Martin Hutzenthaler , Arnulf Jentzen , Thomas Kruse

In this paper, we present solvable, convex formulations of $H_2$-optimal state estimation and state-feedback control problems for a general class of linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with one spatial dimension. These convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Sachin Shivakumar , Matthew Peet