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Real-world systems are often formulated as constrained optimization problems. Techniques to incorporate constraints into Neural Networks (NN), such as Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs), have been used. However, these…

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Representing a manifold of very high-dimensional data with generative models has been shown to be computationally efficient in practice. However, this requires that the data manifold admits a global parameterization. In order to represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Giovanni S. Alberti , Johannes Hertrich , Matteo Santacesaria , Silvia Sciutto

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are a conventional way to describe the observed dynamics of physical systems. Scientists typically hypothesize about dynamical behavior, propose a mathematical model, and compare its predictions to…

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Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are powerful tools capable of approximating any arbitrary mathematical function, but their interpretability remains limited, rendering them as black box models. To address this issue, numerous methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Abhiram Anand Thiruthummal , Eun-jin Kim , Sergiy Shelyag

Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) have been attracting increasing attention in various research domains recently. There have been some works studying optimization issues and approximation capabilities of neural ODEs, but their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Hanshu Yan , Jiawei Du , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Jiashi Feng

Neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs) can effectively learn dynamical systems from time series data, but their behavior on graph-structured data remains poorly understood, especially when applied to graphs with different size…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-10 Moritz Laber , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Brennan Klein

In this paper we consider Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with a smooth activation function as surrogates for high-dimensional functions that are somewhat smooth but costly to evaluate. We consider the standard (non-periodic) DNNs as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Alexander Keller , Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens , Ian H. Sloan

Deep generative models have made tremendous advances in image and signal representation learning and generation. These models employ the full Euclidean space or a bounded subset as the latent space, whose flat geometry, however, is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Stefan Schonsheck , Jie Chen , Rongjie Lai

Landmark manifolds consist of a collection of distinct points, and dynamics on this manifold can be used to represent flows, such as solutions of ODEs and flows deforming a shape. We will consider landmark configurations in the Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Erlend Grong , Sylvie Vega-Molino

Many physical systems exhibit a low-dimensional structure that varies with external parameters: link lengths in a robot, forcing constants in a fluid, or Reynolds numbers in a flow shift the underlying manifold while preserving its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jérôme Adriaens , Gustave Bainier , Guillaume Drion , Pierre Sacré

We develop a framework for the analysis of deep neural networks and neural ODE models that are trained with stochastic gradient algorithms. We do that by identifying the connections between control theory, deep learning and theory of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Jean-François Jabir , David Šiška , Łukasz Szpruch

In Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computational science, learning the mappings between functions (called operators) defined on complex computational domains is a common theoretical challenge. Recently, Neural Operator emerged as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Gengxiang Chen , Xu Liu , Qinglu Meng , Lu Chen , Changqing Liu , Yingguang Li

We present a novel method for learning reduced-order models of dynamical systems using nonlinear manifolds. First, we learn the manifold by identifying nonlinear structure in the data through a general representation learning problem. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Rudy Geelen , Laura Balzano , Stephen Wright , Karen Willcox

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations replace the right-hand side of a conventional ODE with a neural net, which by virtue of the universal approximation theorem, can be trained to the representation of any function. When we do not know…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-25 Robert Strauss

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) are a promising approach to learn dynamic models from time-series data in science and engineering applications. This work aims at learning Neural ODE for stiff systems, which are usually raised…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Suyong Kim , Weiqi Ji , Sili Deng , Yingbo Ma , Christopher Rackauckas

Manifold optimization is ubiquitous in computational and applied mathematics, statistics, engineering, machine learning, physics, chemistry and etc. One of the main challenges usually is the non-convexity of the manifold constraints. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Jiang Hu , Xin Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

Recently, versions of neural networks with infinite-dimensional affine operators inside the computational units (``neural operator'' networks) have been applied to learn solutions to differential equations. To enable practical computations,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Vinícius Luz Oliveira , Vladimir G. Pestov

Differential equations are frequently used in engineering domains, such as modeling and control of industrial systems, where safety and performance guarantees are of paramount importance. Traditional physics-based modeling approaches…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Aaron Tuor , Jan Drgona , Draguna Vrabie

Stiff systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are pervasive in many science and engineering fields, yet standard neural ODE approaches struggle to learn them. This limitation is the main barrier to the widespread adoption of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Colby Fronk , Linda Petzold

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) have been successful in various applications due to their continuous nature and parameter-sharing efficiency. However, these unique characteristics also introduce challenges in training,…

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