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Allen-Cahn equation is a fundamental continuum model that describes phase transitions in multi-component mixtures. We prove the existence of traveling waves for vector valued Allen-Cahn equations in the context of Ginzburg-Landau theories;…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Xinfu Chen , Zhilei Liang

We consider the approximation of initial/boundary value problems involving, possibly high-dimensional, dissipative evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) using a deep neural network framework. More specifically, we first propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Michail Loulakis , Asterios Tsiourvas

We study topology optimization governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes flows using a phase field model. Novel stabilized semi-implicit schemes for the gradient flows of Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard types are proposed for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Jiajie Li , Shengfeng Zhu

In the field of machine learning, comprehending the intricate training dynamics of neural networks poses a significant challenge. This paper explores the training dynamics of neural networks, particularly whether these dynamics can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yeachan Park

The training of artificial neural networks (ANNs) with rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation via gradient descent (GD) type optimization schemes is nowadays a common industrially relevant procedure. Till this day in the scientific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Simon Eberle , Arnulf Jentzen , Adrian Riekert , Georg S. Weiss

Variational Physics-Informed Neural Networks often suffer from poor convergence when using stochastic gradient-descent-based optimizers. By introducing a Least Squares solver for the weights of the last layer of the neural network, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Carlos Uriarte , Manuela Bastidas , David Pardo , Jamie M. Taylor , Sergio Rojas

In this work, we consider a time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation, where the conventional first order time derivative is replaced by a Caputo fractional derivative with order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. First, the well-posedness and (limited) smoothing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Qiang Du , Jiang Yang , Zhi Zhou

As a counterpoint to recent numerical methods for crystal surface evolution, which agree well with microscopic dynamics but suffer from significant stiffness that prevents simulation on fine spatial grids, we develop a new numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Katy Craig , Jian-Guo Liu , Jianfeng Lu , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Li Wang

In this work, we study shape optimization problems in the Stokes flows. By phase-field approaches, the resulted total objective function consists of the dissipation energy of the fluids and the Ginzburg--Landau energy functional as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Futuan Li , Jiang Yang

We study the convergence of gradient flow for the training of deep neural networks. If Residual Neural Networks are a popular example of very deep architectures, their training constitutes a challenging optimization problem due notably to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Raphaël Barboni , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

The scarcity of labeled data is a long-standing challenge for many machine learning tasks. We propose our gradient flow method to leverage the existing dataset (i.e., source) to generate new samples that are close to the dataset of interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Xinru Hua , Truyen Nguyen , Tam Le , Jose Blanchet , Viet Anh Nguyen

This paper is concerned with the approximation of the solution of partial differential equations by means of artificial neural networks. Here a feedforward neural network is used to approximate the solution of the partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Henri Calandra , Serge Gratton , Elisa Riccietti , Xavier Vasseur

We propose a gradient-based method for quadratic programming problems with a single linear constraint and bounds on the variables. Inspired by the GPCG algorithm for bound-constrained convex quadratic programming [J.J. Mor\'e and G.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Daniela di Serafino , Gerardo Toraldo , Marco Viola , Jesse Barlow

We study in this paper the convergence of the random splitting method for Allen-Cahn equation in a background flow that plays as a simplified model for phase separation in multiphase flows. The model does not own the gradient flow structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Lei Li , Chen Wang

This paper approaches the unsupervised learning problem by gradient descent in the space of probability density functions. A main result shows that along the gradient flow induced by a distribution-dependent ordinary differential equation…

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The Gaussian-radial-basis function neural network (GRBFNN) has been a popular choice for interpolation and classification. However, it is computationally intensive when the dimension of the input vector is high. To address this issue, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Siyuan Xing , Jianqiao Sun

Simulation of multiphase flow in porous media is crucial for the effective management of subsurface energy and environment related activities. The numerical simulators used for modeling such processes rely on spatial and temporal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Bicheng Yan , Dylan Robert Harp , Rajesh J. Pawar

Deep generative modeling has seen impressive advances in recent years, to the point where it is now commonplace to see simulated samples (e.g., images) that closely resemble real-world data. However, generation quality is generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Abdul Fatir Ansari , Ming Liang Ang , Harold Soh

We introduce a class of unconditionally energy stable, high order accurate schemes for gradient flows in a very general setting. The new schemes are a high order analogue of the minimizing movements approach for generating a time discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Alexander Zaitzeff , Selim Esedoglu , Krishna Garikipati

Accurate and efficient prediction of multi-scale flows remains a formidable challenge. Constructing theoretical models and numerical methods often involves the design and optimization of parameters. While gradient descent methods have been…

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