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Several problems in machine learning are naturally expressed as the design and analysis of time-evolving probability distributions. This includes sampling via diffusion methods, optimizing the weights of neural networks, and analyzing the…

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The paper outlines novel variational technique for finding microstructures of optimal multimaterial composites, bounds of composites properties, and multimaterial optimal designs. The translation method that is used for the exact…

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We present a method to extract temporal hypergraphs from sequences of 2-dimensional functions obtained as solutions to Optimal Transport problems. We investigate optimality principles exhibited by these solutions from the point of view of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Diego Baptista , Caterina De Bacco

Semi-Lagrangian (SL) schemes are known as a major numerical tool for solving transport equations with many advantages and have been widely deployed in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, plasma physics modeling, numerical weather…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Yongsheng Chen , Wei Guo , Xinghui Zhong

In this work, we consider optimal control problems for mechanical systems on vector spaces with fixed initial and free final state and a quadratic Lagrange term. Specifically, the dynamics is described by a second order ODE containing an…

We present a novel framework based on semi-bounded spatial operators for analyzing and discretizing initial boundary value problems on moving and deforming domains. This development extends an existing framework for well-posed problems and…

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We consider optimal transport based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems with locally strongly convex transport cost functions and affine decision rules. Under conventional convexity assumptions on the underlying loss…

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This paper proposes a novel paradigm for machine learning that moves beyond traditional parameter optimization. Unlike conventional approaches that search for optimal parameters within a fixed geometric space, our core idea is to treat the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Di Zhang

We approximate the regular solutions of the incompressible Euler equation by the solution of ODEs on finite-dimensional spaces. Our approach combines Arnold's interpretation of the solution of Euler's equation for incompressible and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Thomas Gallouët , Quentin Mérigot

Computational design optimization in fluid dynamics usually requires to solve non-linear partial differential equations numerically. In this work, we explore a Bayesian optimization approach to minimize an object's drag coefficient in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Stephan Eismann , Stefan Bartzsch , Stefano Ermon

Simulating physical systems governed by Lagrangian dynamics often entails solving partial differential equations (PDEs) over high-resolution spatial domains, leading to significant computational expense. Reduced-order modeling (ROM)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hrishikesh Viswanath , Yue Chang , Aleksey Panas , Julius Berner , Peter Yichen Chen , Aniket Bera

We address the problem to infer physical material parameters and boundary conditions from the observed motion of a homogeneous deformable object via the solution of an inverse problem. Parameters are estimated from potentially unreliable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Sebastian Weiss , Robert Maier , Rüdiger Westermann , Daniel Cremers , Nils Thuerey

A positivity-preserving conservative semi-Lagrangian transport model by multi-moment finite volume method has been developed on the cubed-sphere grid. In this paper, two kinds of moments, i.e. point values (PV moment) at cell boundaries and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Jie Tang , Chungang Chen , Xueshun Shen , Feng Xiao , Xingliang Li

Designing effective reduced-order models (ROMs) for parametrized transport-dominated problems remains challenging because of the well-known Kolmogorov barrier. Autoencoder-based nonlinear ROMs have been developed to improve the compression…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Meng Li , Yang Xiang , Zhichao Peng

A surrogate-based topology optimisation algorithm for linear elastic structures under parametric loads and boundary conditions is proposed. Instead of learning the parametric solution of the state (and adjoint) problems or the optimisation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Matteo Giacomini , Antonio Huerta

An explicit high order semi-Lagrangian method is developed for solving Lagrangian transport equations in Eulerian-Lagrangian formulations. To ensure a semi-Lagrangian approximation that is consistent with an explicit Eulerian, discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Hareshram Natarajan , Gustaaf B. Jacobs

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric tool used to compare and align probability measures following the least effort principle. Despite its widespread use in machine learning (ML), OT problem still bears its computational burden,…

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In this paper, we perform a rigourous version of shape and topological derivatives for optimizations problems under constraint Helmoltz problems. A shape and topological optimization problem is formulated by introducing cost functional. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Mame Gor Ngom , Ibrahima Faye , Diaraf Seck

Generating computational anatomical models of cerebrovascular networks is vital for improving clinical practice and understanding brain oxygen transport. This is achieved by extracting graph-based representations based on pre-mapping of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-23 Rafat Damseh , Patrick Delafontaine-Martel , Philippe Pouliot , Farida Cheriet , Frederic Lesage