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This paper studies adaptive least-squares finite element methods for convection-dominated diffusion-reaction problems. The least-squares methods are based on the first-order system of the primal and dual variables with various ways of…

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This paper studies the approximation property of ReLU neural networks (NNs) to piecewise constant functions with unknown interfaces in bounded regions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Under the assumption that the discontinuity interface $\Gamma$ may be…

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Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks have become popular in a variety of applications such as image processing, data classification, speech recognition, and as controllers in autonomous systems. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sara Mohammadinejad , Brandon Paulsen , Chao Wang , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

In this work, we present a subdomain discontinuous least-squares (SDLS) scheme for neutronics problems. Least-squares (LS) methods are known to be inaccurate for problems with sharp total-cross section interfaces. In addition, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Weixiong Zheng , Ryan G. McClarren , Jim E. Morel

This paper provides a least squares formulation for the training of a 2-layer convolutional neural network using quadratic activation functions, a 2-norm loss function, and no regularization term. Using this method, an analytic expression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zachary Yetman Van Egmond , Luis Rodrigues

We present a non-conforming least squares method for approximating solutions of second order elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients. The method is based on a general Saddle Point Least Squares (SPLS) method introduced in previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Constantin Bacuta , Jacob Jacavage

This work develops robust diffusion recursive least squares algorithms to mitigate the performance degradation often experienced in networks of agents in the presence of impulsive noise. The first algorithm minimizes an exponentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Y. Yu , H. Zhao , R. C. de Lamare , Y. Zakharov , L. Lu

Unsupervised learning with generative adversarial networks (GANs) has proven hugely successful. Regular GANs hypothesize the discriminator as a classifier with the sigmoid cross entropy loss function. However, we found that this loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Xudong Mao , Qing Li , Haoran Xie , Raymond Y. K. Lau , Zhen Wang , Stephen Paul Smolley

We propose a discontinuous least squares finite element method for solving the Helmholtz equation. The method is based on the L2 norm least squares functional with the weak imposition of the continuity across the interior faces as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu , Fanyi Yang

For quasi-linear interface problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, the nonconvex objective functional often leads to optimization stagnation in randomized neural network approximations. This paper Proposes a…

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This paper presents a first-order {distributed continuous-time algorithm} for computing the least-squares solution to a linear equation over networks. Given the uniqueness of the solution, with nonintegrable and diminishing step size,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yang Liu , Youcheng Lou , Brian D. O. Anderson , Guodong Shi

Accurate modeling of complex physical problems, such as fluid-structure interaction, requires multiphysics coupling across the interface, which often has intricate geometry and dynamic boundaries. Conventional numerical methods face…

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This paper studies the shallow Ritz method for solving one-dimensional diffusion-reaction problems. The method is capable of improving the order of approximation for non-smooth problems. By following a similar approach to the one presented…

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Unsupervised learning with generative adversarial networks (GANs) has proven to be hugely successful. Regular GANs hypothesize the discriminator as a classifier with the sigmoid cross entropy loss function. However, we found that this loss…

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This paper is concerned with the approximation of the solution of partial differential equations by means of artificial neural networks. Here a feedforward neural network is used to approximate the solution of the partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Henri Calandra , Serge Gratton , Elisa Riccietti , Xavier Vasseur

Separable nonlinear least squares (SNLS)problem is a special class of nonlinear least squares (NLS)problems, whose objective function is a mixture of linear and nonlinear functions. It has many applications in many different areas,…

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A feedforward neural network, including hidden layers, motivated by nonlinear functions (such as Tanh, ReLU, and Sigmoid functions), exhibits uniform approximation properties in Sobolev space, and discontinuous neural networks can reduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Xiaoyu Wang , Long Yuan , Yao Yu

Randomized neural networks (RNN) are a variation of neural networks in which the hidden-layer parameters are fixed to randomly assigned values and the output-layer parameters are obtained by solving a linear system by least squares. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Jingbo Sun , Suchuan Dong , Fei Wang

We propose a new least squares finite element method to solve the Stokes problem with two sequential steps. The approximation spaces are constructed by patch reconstruction with one unknown per element. For the first step, we reconstruct an…

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