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This work presents a distributed algorithm for resolving cooperative multi-vehicle conflicts in highly constrained spaces. By formulating the conflict resolution problem as a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem, we can train a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Xu Shen , Francesco Borrelli

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

Design and optimal control problems are among the fundamental, ubiquitous tasks we face in science and engineering. In both cases, we aim to represent and optimize an unknown (black-box) function that associates a performance/outcome to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Sifan Wang , Mohamed Aziz Bhouri , Paris Perdikaris

Partial differential equation (PDE) models and their associated variational energy formulations are often rotationally invariant by design. This ensures that a rotation of the input results in a corresponding rotation of the output, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tobias Alt , Karl Schrader , Joachim Weickert , Pascal Peter , Matthias Augustin

We propose a framework for training neural networks that are coupled with partial differential equations (PDEs) in a parallel computing environment. Unlike most distributed computing frameworks for deep neural networks, our focus is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Kailai Xu , Weiqiang Zhu , Eric Darve

The evolution of dynamical systems is generically governed by nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), whose solution, in a simulation framework, requires vast amounts of computational resources. In this work, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Michael Rotman , Amit Dekel , Ran Ilan Ber , Lior Wolf , Yaron Oz

Developing algorithms for solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) has been an exceedingly difficult task for a long time, due to the notoriously difficult problem known as the "curse of dimensionality". This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Jiequn Han , Arnulf Jentzen , Weinan E

The multiscale complexity of modern problems in computational science and engineering can prohibit the use of traditional numerical methods in multi-dimensional simulations. Therefore, novel algorithms are required in these situations to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Cale Harnish , Luke Dalessandro , Karel Matous , Daniel Livescu

Data-driven discovery of partial differential equations (PDEs) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Although significant progress has been made, certain unresolved issues remain. For example, for PDEs with high-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Xu , Dongxiao Zhang , Nanzhe Wang

We propose a machine learning framework to accelerate numerical computations of time-dependent ODEs and PDEs. Our method is based on recasting (generalizations of) existing numerical methods as artificial neural networks, with a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Siddhartha Mishra

Unveiling the underlying governing equations of nonlinear dynamic systems remains a significant challenge. Insufficient prior knowledge hinders the determination of an accurate candidate library, while noisy observations lead to imprecise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mengge Du , Yuntian Chen , Longfeng Nie , Siyu Lou , Dongxiao Zhang

In this paper we investigate infinite horizon optimal control problems for parametrized partial differential equations. We are interested in feedback control via dynamic programming equations which is well-known to suffer from the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Alessandro Alla , Bernard Haasdonk , Andreas Schmidt

The numerical reconstruction of controls for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) remains a challenging and relatively underdeveloped problem, despite the extensive literature on controllability theory. In this work, we introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Maximilian Kurbanov , Minh-Nhat Phung , Minh-Binh Tran

Although there is a substantial body of literature on control and optimization problems for parabolic and hyperbolic systems, the specific problem of controlling and optimizing the coefficients of the associated operators within such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Alain Bensoussan , Minh-Binh Tran , Bangjie Wang

This work presents a convex-optimization-based framework for analysis and control of nonlinear partial differential equations. The approach uses a particular weak embedding of the nonlinear PDE, resulting in a linear equation in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Milan Korda , Didier Henrion , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are among the most universal and parsimonious descriptions of natural physical laws, capturing a rich variety of phenomenology and multi-scale physics in a compact and symbolic representation. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

We consider constrained bilinear optimal control of second-order linear evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) with a reaction term on the half line, where control arises as a time-dependent reaction coefficient and constraints are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Zhexian Li , Felipe de Barros , Ketan Savla

We introduce a physics-driven deep latent variable model (PDDLVM) to learn simultaneously parameter-to-solution (forward) and solution-to-parameter (inverse) maps of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs). Our formulation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-09 Arnaud Vadeboncoeur , Ömer Deniz Akyildiz , Ieva Kazlauskaite , Mark Girolami , Fehmi Cirak

The challenge of applying learned knowledge from one domain to solve problems in another related but distinct domain, known as transfer learning, is fundamental in operator learning models that solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Haoyang Jiang , Yongzhi Qu

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been applied successfully to many robotic applications. However, the large number of trials needed for training is a key issue. Most of existing techniques developed to improve training efficiency (e.g.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Linhai Xie , Sen Wang , Stefano Rosa , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni