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This article focuses on the development of high-order energy stable schemes for the multi-length-scale incommensurate phase-field crystal model which is able to study the phase behavior of aperiodic structures. These high-order schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Kai Jiang , Wei Si

This article focuses on the development of high-order energy stable schemes for the multi-length-scale incommensurate phase-field crystal model which is able to study the phase behavior of aperiodic structures. These high-order schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Kai Jiang , Wei Si

The paper presents a strategy to construct an incremental Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for time-evolving, spatially 3D discrete data sets. A low memory access procedure for reducing and deploying the snapshot data is presented.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Niklas Kühl , Hendrik Fischer , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase separation processes in mixtures of two materials. For a better description of short-range interactions between the material and the boundary, various dynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Stefan Metzger

The nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard (NCH) equation with nonlocal diffusion operator is more suitable for the simulation of microstructure phase transition than the local Cahn-Hilliard (LCH) equation. In this paper, based on the exponential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Xiaoqing Meng , Aijie Cheng , Zhengguang Liu

The 4D-Var method for filtering partially observed nonlinear chaotic dynamical systems consists of finding the maximum a-posteriori (MAP) estimator of the initial condition of the system given observations over a time window, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-19 Daniel Paulin , Ajay Jasra , Alexandros Beskos , Dan Crisan

In this paper, a self-adaptive contractive (SAC) algorithm is proposed for enhanced dynamic phasor estimation in the diverse operating conditions of modern power systems. At a high-level, the method is composed of three stages: parameter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-01 Francisco Messina , Pablo Marchi , Leonardo Rey Vega , Cecilia Galarza

Reducing the variance of the gradient estimator is known to improve the convergence rate of stochastic gradient-based optimization and sampling algorithms. One way of achieving variance reduction is to design importance sampling strategies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ayoub El Hanchi , David A. Stephens

This paper presents three main contributions to the field of multi-step system identification. First, drawing inspiration from Neural Network (NN) training, it introduces a tool for solving identification problems by leveraging first-order…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Cesare Donati , Martina Mammarella , Fabrizio Dabbene , Carlo Novara , Constantino Lagoa

Inferring causal relationships as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) is an important but challenging problem. Differentiable Causal Discovery (DCD) is a promising approach to this problem, framing the search as a continuous optimization. But…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Achille Nazaret , Justin Hong , Elham Azizi , David Blei

In this study, a fast and stable machine-learned hybrid algorithm implemented in TensorFlow for the integration of stiff chemical kinetics is introduced. Numerical solutions to differential equations are at the core of computational fluid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Kyle Buchheit , Opeoluwa Owoyele , Terry Jordan , Dirk Van Essendelft

We consider the finite element (FE) approximation of the shallow water equations (SWE) by considering discretizations in which both space and time are established using an unconditionally stable FE method. Particularly, we consider the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Eirik Valseth , Clint Dawson

We introduce Group Spike-and-slab Variational Bayes (GSVB), a scalable method for group sparse regression. A fast co-ordinate ascent variational inference (CAVI) algorithm is developed for several common model families including Gaussian,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-14 Michael Komodromos , Marina Evangelou , Sarah Filippi , Kolyan Ray

Stochastic optimization is an important task in many optimization problems where the tasks are not expressible as convex optimization problems. In the case of non-convex optimization problems, various different stochastic algorithms like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Jayanta Basak

This paper proposes a new pathwise sensitivity estimator for chaotic SDEs. By introducing a spring term between the original and perturbated SDEs, we derive a new estimator by importance sampling. The variance of the new estimator increases…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Wei Fang , Mike Giles

This paper studies the semi-analytic solution (SAS) of a power system's differential-algebraic equation. A SAS is a closed-form function of symbolic variables including time, the initial state and the parameters on system operating…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Nan Duan , Kai Sun

In this paper, we construct and analyze an energy stable scheme by combining the latest developed scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach and linear finite element method (FEM) for phase field crystal (PFC) model, and show rigorously that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Liupeng Wang , Yunqing Huang , Kai Jiang

In this paper, we construct efficient schemes based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) block-centered finite difference method for the modified phase field crystal (MPFC) equation, which is a sixth-order nonlinear damped wave equation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Xiaoli Li , Jie Shen

With the purpose of examining biased updates in variance-reduced stochastic gradient methods, we introduce SVAG, a SAG/SAGA-like method with adjustable bias. SVAG is analyzed in a cocoercive root-finding setting, a setting which yields the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Martin Morin , Pontus Giselsson

In this paper, we introduce a multilevel algorithm for approximating variational formulations of symmetric saddle point systems. The algorithm is based on availability of families of stable finite element pairs and on the availability of…

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