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Gradient-based optimization methods are commonly used to identify local optima in high-dimensional spaces. When derivatives cannot be evaluated directly, stochastic estimators can provide approximate gradients. However, these estimators'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Philipp Andelfinger , Wentong Cai

The intrusive (sample-free) spectral stochastic finite element method (SSFEM) is a powerful numerical tool for solving stochastic partial differential equations (PDEs). However, it is not widely adopted in academic and industrial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Ajit Desai

Particle-based variational inference (VI) minimizes the KL divergence between model samples and the target posterior with gradient flow estimates. With the popularity of Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), the focus of particle-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-19 Hanze Dong , Xi Wang , Yong Lin , Tong Zhang

Gradient-based techniques are becoming increasingly critical in quantitative fields, notably in statistics and computer science. The utility of these techniques, however, ultimately depends on how efficiently we can evaluate the derivatives…

Computation · Statistics 2020-02-04 Michael Betancourt , Charles C. Margossian , Vianey Leos-Barajas

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a novel computational approach for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with noisy and sparse initial and boundary data. Although, efficient quantification of epistemic and aleatoric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Júlia Vicens Figueres , Juliette Vanderhaeghen , Federica Bragone , Kateryna Morozovska , Khemraj Shukla

In this paper, we propose a random gradient-free method for optimization in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, applicable to functional optimization in diverse settings. Though such problems are often solved through finite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Caio Lins Peixoto , Daniel Csillag , Bernardo F. P. da Costa , Yuri F. Saporito

Gradient descent method, as one of the major methods in numerical optimization, is the key ingredient in many machine learning algorithms. As one of the most fundamental way to solve the optimization problems, it promises the function value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Keren Li , Shijie Wei , Feihao Zhang , Pan Gao , Zengrong Zhou , Tao Xin , Xiaoting Wang , Guilu Long

We present a systematic derivation of the algorithms required for computing the gradient and the action of the Hessian of an arbitrary misfit function for large-scale parameter estimation problems involving linear time-dependent PDEs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Kai Rothauge , Eldad Haber , Uri Ascher

Up to the moment there are two known algorithms of sector decomposition: an original private algorithm of Binoth and Heinrich and an algorithm made public lastyear by Bogner and Weinzierl. We present a new program performing the sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-24 A. V. Smirnov , M. N. Tentyukov

An algorithm and associated strategy for solving polynomial systems within the optimization framework is presented. The algorithm and strategy are named, respectively, the penetrating gradient algorithm and the deepest descent strategy. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Nikica Hlupic , Ivo Beros

Over the last decade the gradient flow formalism became an important tool for lattice simulations of Quantum Chromodynamics. It offers remarkable renormalization properties which pave the way for cross-fertilization between perturbative and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-22 Fabian Lange

The Feynman-Kac equation governs the distribution of the statistical observable -- functional, having wide applications in almost all disciplines. After overcoming challenges from the time-space coupled nonlocal operator and the possible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Jing Sun , Daxin Nie , Weihua Deng

Feynman integral reduction by means of integration-by-parts identities is a major power gadget in a theorist toolbox indispensable for calculation of multiloop quantum effects relevant for particle phenomenology and formal theory alike. An…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 A. V. Belitsky , A. A. Kokosinskaya , A. V. Smirnov , V. V. Voevodin , M. Zeng

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

This paper detailedly discusses the locally one-dimensional numerical methods for efficiently solving the three-dimensional fractional partial differential equations, including fractional advection diffusion equation and Riesz fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Weihua Deng , Minghua Chen

The primary goal of this research is to propose a novel architecture for a deep neural network that can solve fractional differential equations accurately. A Gaussian integration rule and a $L_1$ discretization technique are used in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ali Nosrati Firoozsalari , Hassan Dana Mazraeh , Alireza Afzal Aghaei , Kourosh Parand

Recent advances in infinite-dimensional diffusion models have demonstrated their effectiveness and scalability in function generation tasks where the underlying structure is inherently infinite-dimensional. To accelerate inference in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kunwoo Na , Junghyun Lee , Se-Young Yun , Sungbin Lim

Gradient descent is a widely used iterative algorithm for finding local minima in multivariate functions. However, the final iterations often either overshoot the minima or make minimal progress, making it challenging to determine an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Aviral Dhingra

Implicitly described domains are a well established tool in the simulation of time dependent problems, e.g. using level-set methods. In order to solve partial differential equations on such domains, a range of numerical methods was…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-16 Christian Engwer , Andreas Nüßing

It is well-known that many diffusion equations can be recast as Wasserstein gradient flows. Moreover, in recent years, by modifying the Wasserstein distance appropriately, this technique has been transferred to further evolution equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Kaveh Bashiri , Anton Bovier