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Efficient topology optimization based on the adaptive auxiliary reduced model reanalysis (AARMR) is proposed to improve computational efficiency and scale. In this method, a projection auxiliary reduced model (PARM) is integrated into the…
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Computational reconstruction plays a vital role in computer vision and computational photography. Most of the conventional optimization and deep learning techniques explore local information for reconstruction. Recently, nonlocal low-rank…
We propose an algorithm to explore the global optimization method, using SAT solvers, for training a neural net. Deep Neural Networks have achieved great feats in tasks like-image recognition, speech recognition, etc. Much of their success…
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The advancement of artificial intelligence has cast a new light on the development of optimization algorithm. This paper proposes to learn a two-phase (including a minimization phase and an escaping phase) global optimization algorithm for…
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