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Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

We consider simple bilevel optimization problems where the goal is to compute among the optimal solutions of a composite convex optimization problem, one that minimizes a secondary objective function. Our main contribution is threefold. (i)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Sepideh Samadi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

Spatiotemporal metasurfaces offer unique opportunities for wave manipulation, however, their practical realization is often constrained by the requirement for in-plane spatial modulation, which necessitates a large number of time-varying…

We implement a shape optimization algorithm for body-assisted light-matter interactions described by the formalism of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. The approach uses the level-set method to represent and incrementally evolve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jonas Matuszak , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Robert Bennett

We propose a method that morphs high-orger meshes such that their boundaries and interfaces coincide/align with implicitly defined geometries. Our focus is particularly on the case when the target surface is prescribed as the zero…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jorge-Luis Barrera , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov

Large-area metasurfaces composed of discrete wavelength-scale scatterers present an extremely large number of degrees of freedom to engineer an optical element. These degrees of freedom provide tremendous design flexibility, and a central…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-29 Maksym V. Zhelyeznyakov , Alan Zhan , Arka Majumdar

In this work, we present an efficiently computational approach for designing material micro-structures by means of topology optimization. The central idea relies on using the isogeometric analysis integrated with the parameterized level set…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chuong Nguyen , Xiaoying Zhuang , Ludovic Chamoin , Hung Nguyen-Xuan , Xianzhong Zhao , Timon Rabczuk

We develop a formalism to study the use of Level Set Method (LSM) in the investigation of evolution of observables in terms of parameters of the Hamiltonian, both of the system itself and the control part. A simple example with an analytic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fariel Shafee

In this paper, we propose oversampling strategies in the Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) framework. The GMsFEM, which has been recently introduced in [12], allows solving multiscale parameter-dependent problems at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-18 Yalchin Efendiev , Juan Galvis , Guanglian Li , Michael Presho

Dielectric structures composed of many inclusions that manipulate light in ways the bulk materials cannot are commonly seen in the field of metamaterials. In these structures, each inclusion depends on a set of parameters such as location…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Boaz Blankrot , Clemens Heitzinger

Inverse problem or parameter estimation of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), the iterative process of minimizing the mismatch between model-predicted and experimental states by tuning the parameter values within an optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Siddharth Prabhu , Srinivas Rangarajan , Mayuresh Kothare

In elastic wave systems, combining the powerful concepts of resonance and spatial grading within structured surface arrays enable resonant metasurfaces to exhibit broadband wave focusing, mode conversion from surface (Rayleigh) waves to…

In this paper, we introduce a new functional point of view on bilevel optimization problems for machine learning, where the inner objective is minimized over a function space. These types of problems are most often solved by using methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-10 Ieva Petrulionyte , Julien Mairal , Michael Arbel

Gradient-based methods are widely used to solve various optimization problems, however, they are either constrained by local optima dilemmas, simple convex constraints, and continuous differentiability requirements, or limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ming Li

Materials like paper, consisting of a network of natural fibres, exposed to variations in moisture, undergo changes in geometrical and mechanical properties. This behaviour is particularly important for understanding the hygro-mechanical…

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In this article, we present a new data-driven shape optimization approach for implicit hydrofoil morphing via a polynomial perturbation of parametric level set representation. Without introducing any change in topology, the hydrofoil…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-16 Wrik Mallik , Rajeev K. Jaiman , Jasmin Jelovica

In science and engineering, intelligent processing of complex signals such as images, sound or language is often performed by a parameterized hierarchy of nonlinear processing layers, sometimes biologically inspired. Hierarchical systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Weiran Wang

The level sets of neural networks represent fundamental properties such as decision boundaries of classifiers and are used to model non-linear manifold data such as curves and surfaces. Thus, methods for controlling the neural level sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Matan Atzmon , Niv Haim , Lior Yariv , Ofer Israelov , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

This paper introduces a Particle Flow Map Level Set (PFM-LS) method for high-fidelity interface tracking. We store level-set values, gradients, and Hessians on particles concentrated in a narrow band around the interface, advecting them via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Jinjin He , Taiyuan Zhang , Zhiqi Li , Junwei Zhou , Duowen Chen , Bo Zhu

Classification of features in a scene typically requires conversion of the incoming photonic field into the electronic domain. Recently, an alternative approach has emerged whereby passive structured materials can perform classification…