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The estimation of distributed parameters in partial differential equations (PDE) from measures of the solution of the PDE may lead to under-determination problems. The choice of a parameterization is a usual way of adding a-priori…

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In this paper, the elliptic PDE-constrained optimization problem with box constraints on the control is studied. To numerically solve the problem, we apply the 'optimize-discretize-optimize' strategy. Specifically, the alternating direction…

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The finite cell method is a highly flexible discretization technique for numerical analysis on domains with complex geometries. By using a non-boundary conforming computational domain that can be easily meshed, automatized computations on a…

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Higher-order nonlinear time-evolution equations have widespread applications in science and engineering, such as in solid mechanics, materials science, and fluid mechanics. This paper mainly studies a direct time-parallel algorithm for…

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Finding sparse solutions of underdetermined systems of linear equations is a fundamental problem in signal processing and statistics which has become a subject of interest in recent years. In general, these systems have infinitely many…

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This article aims to demonstrate and discuss the applications of automatic differentiation (AD) for finding derivatives in PDE-constrained optimization problems and Jacobians in non-linear finite element analysis. The main idea is to…

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This paper provides the first provable $\mathcal{O}(N \log N)$ algorithms for the linear system arising from the direct finite element discretization of the fourth-order equation with different boundary conditions on unstructured grids of…

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Modeling real processes often results in several suitable models. In order to be able to distinguish, or discriminate, which model best represents a phenomenon, one is interested, e.g., in so-called T-optimal designs. These consist of the…

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The numerical solution of differential equations can be formulated as an inference problem to which formal statistical approaches can be applied. However, nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) pose substantial challenges from an…

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Solution methods for the nonlinear partial differential equation of the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) and minimum-surface models are fundamental for many modern applications. Many efficient algorithms have been proposed. First order methods are…

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Synthesizing optimal controllers for dynamical systems often involves solving optimization problems with hard real-time constraints. These constraints determine the class of numerical methods that can be applied: computationally expensive…

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Hyperparameter optimisation is a crucial process in searching the optimal machine learning model. The efficiency of finding the optimal hyperparameter settings has been a big concern in recent researches since the optimisation process could…

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The first order by time partial differential equations are used as models in applications such as fluid flow, heat transfer, solid deformation, electromagnetic waves, and others. In this paper we propose the new numerical method to solve a…

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