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Residual neural networks can be viewed as the forward Euler discretization of an Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) with a unit time step. This has recently motivated researchers to explore other discretization approaches and train ODE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Amir Gholami , Kurt Keutzer , George Biros

This paper proposes a fractional order gradient method for the backward propagation of convolutional neural networks. To overcome the problem that fractional order gradient method cannot converge to real extreme point, a simplified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Dian Sheng , Yiheng Wei , Yuquan Chen , Yong Wang

We use neural ordinary differential equations to formulate a variant of the Transformer that is depth-adaptive in the sense that an input-dependent number of time steps is taken by the ordinary differential equation solver. Our goal in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Aaron Baier-Reinio , Hans De Sterck

Backpropagation through nonlinear neurons is an outstanding challenge to the field of optical neural networks and the major conceptual barrier to all-optical training schemes. Each neuron is required to exhibit a directionally dependent…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Xianxin Guo , Thomas D. Barrett , Zhiming M. Wang , A. I. Lvovsky

In this work, we present an adaptive adjoint-oriented neural network (adaptive AONN) for solving parametric optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations. The proposed method integrates deep adaptive sampling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Zikang Yuan , Guanjie Wang , Qifeng Liao

Many engineering and scientific fields have recently become interested in modeling terms in partial differential equations (PDEs) with neural networks, which requires solving the inverse problem of learning neural network terms from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Konstantin Riedl , Justin Sirignano , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

There is a mystery at the heart of operator learning: how can one recover a non-self-adjoint operator from data without probing the adjoint? Current practical approaches suggest that one can accurately recover an operator while only using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Nicolas Boullé , Diana Halikias , Samuel E. Otto , Alex Townsend

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (N-ODEs) are a powerful building block for learning systems, which extend residual networks to a continuous-time dynamical system. We propose a Bayesian version of N-ODEs that enables well-calibrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Andreas Look , Melih Kandemir

The neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for developing accelerated surrogate models of complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). A popular approach for PDE…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-26 Ashish S. Nair , Shivam Barwey , Pinaki Pal , Jonathan F. MacArt , Troy Arcomano , Romit Maulik

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODE) have been recently proposed as a promising approach for nonlinear system identification tasks. In this work, we systematically compare their predictive performance with current state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Aowabin Rahman , Ján Drgoňa , Aaron Tuor , Jan Strube

Gradients of neural networks can be computed efficiently for any architecture, but some applications require differential operators with higher time complexity. We describe a family of restricted neural network architectures that allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ricky T. Q. Chen , David Duvenaud

Recently, the high-resolution ordinary differential equation (ODE) framework, which retains higher-order terms, has been proposed to analyze gradient-based optimization algorithms. Through this framework, the term $\nabla^2…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xudong Li , Lei Shi , Mingqi Song

The simplicity of gradient descent (GD) made it the default method for training ever-deeper and complex neural networks. Both loss functions and architectures are often explicitly tuned to be amenable to this basic local optimization. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Dmitrii Marin , Meng Tang , Ismail Ben Ayed , Yuri Boykov

To accelerate diffusion model inference, numerical solvers perform poorly at extremely small steps, while distillation techniques often introduce complexity and instability. This work presents an intermediate strategy, balancing performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wenze Liu , Xiangyu Yue

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) are elegant reinterpretations of deep networks where continuous time can replace the discrete notion of depth, ODE solvers perform forward propagation, and the adjoint method enables efficient,…

Ordinary differential equations (ODE's) are widespread models in physics, chemistry and biology. In particular, this mathematical formalism is used for describing the evolution of complex systems and it might consist of high-dimensional…

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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) represent a significant advancement at the intersection of machine learning and dynamical systems, offering a continuous-time analog to discrete neural networks. Despite their promise, deploying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Matteo Caldana , Jan S. Hesthaven

This paper proposes a new equation from continuous adjoint theory to compute the gradient of quantities governed by the Transport Theory of light. Unlike discrete gradients ala autograd, which work at the code level, we first formulate the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jos Stam

In this article, we study eigenvalue problems associated to self-adjoint operators and their approximation obtained by subspace projection, as used in the reduced basis method for instance. We provide error bounds between the exact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Louis Garrigue , Benjamin Stamm

Neural operators have recently grown in popularity as Partial Differential Equation (PDE) surrogate models. Learning solution functionals, rather than functions, has proven to be a powerful approach to calculate fast, accurate solutions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Cooper Lorsung , Amir Barati Farimani