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In this paper, a novel mechanism-driven reinforcement learning framework is proposed for airfoil shape optimization. To validate the framework, a reward function is designed and analyzed, from which the equivalence between the maximizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Jingfeng Wang , Guanghui Hu

Recent work has shown how information theory extends conventional full-rationality game theory to allow bounded rational agents. The associated mathematical framework can be used to solve constrained optimization problems. This is done by…

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We consider large-scale traffic assignment problems and develop a path-based compression framework. In particular, we partition paths into major and minor paths according to a set of nominal flows and a prescribed threshold, and retain the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Xuesong , Zhou , Peiheng Li , Yuchao Li , Dimitri Bertsekas

In this paper, we present a neural network approach to address the dynamic unbalanced optimal transport problem on surfaces with point cloud representation. For surfaces with point cloud representation, traditional method is difficult to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Jiangong Pan , Wei Wan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenlong Bao , Zuoqiang Shi

In this work, we develop a new framework for dynamic network flow problems based on optimal transport theory. We show that the dynamic multi-commodity minimum-cost network flow problem can be formulated as a multi-marginal optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

This paper sets up an approach for shape optimization problems constrained by variational inequalities (VI) in an appropriate shape space. In contrast to classical VI, where no explicit dependence on the domain is given, VI constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Tim Suchan , Volker Schulz , Kathrin Welker

This paper introduces a numerical algorithm to compute the $L_2$ optimal transport map between two measures $\mu$ and $\nu$, where $\mu$ derives from a density $\rho$ defined as a piecewise linear function (supported by a tetrahedral mesh),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Bruno Levy

We advance a combined filtered/phase-field approach to topology optimization in the setting of linearized elasticity. Existence of minimizers is proved and rigorous parameter asymptotics are discussed by means of variational convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Ferdinando Auricchio , Michele Marino , Idriss Mazari , Ulisse Stefanelli

We present a framework for bi-level trajectory optimization in which a system's dynamics are encoded as the solution to a constrained optimization problem and smooth gradients of this lower-level problem are passed to an upper-level…

We commonly encounter the problem of identifying an optimally weight adjusted version of the empirical distribution of observed data, adhering to predefined constraints on the weights. Such constraints often manifest as restrictions on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Abhisek Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

In this paper, a projected primal-dual gradient flow of augmented Lagrangian is presented to solve convex optimization problems that are not necessarily strictly convex. The optimization variables are restricted by a convex set with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Han Zhang , Jieqiang Wei , Peng Yi , Xiaoming Hu

This paper presents a novel, mathematically rigorous framework for autoencoder-type deep neural networks that combines optimal control theory and low-rank tensor methods to yield memory-efficient training and automated architecture…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Ratna Khatri , Anthony Kolshorn , Colin Olson , Harbir Antil

We propose a geometric model for optimal shape-change-induced motions of slender locomotors, e.g., snakes slithering on sand. In these scenarios, the motion of a body in world coordinates is completely determined by the sequence of shapes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Oliver Gross , Florine Hartwig , Martin Rumpf , Peter Schröder

Optimal transport (OT) naturally arises in a wide range of machine learning applications but may often become the computational bottleneck. Recently, one line of works propose to solve OT approximately by searching the \emph{transport plan}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Weijie Liu , Chao Zhang , Nenggan Zheng , Hui Qian

We present a novel and effective binary representation for convex shapes. We show the equivalence between the shape convexity and some properties of the associated indicator function. The proposed method has two advantages. Firstly, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Shousheng Luo , Xue-Cheng Tai , Yang Wang

In this paper, we study representation formulas for finite-horizon optimal control problems with or without state constraints, unifying two different viewpoints: the Lagrangian and dynamic programming (DP) frameworks. In a recent work [1],…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Yeoneung Kim , Insoon Yang

Efficient path planning for autonomous mobile robots is a critical problem across numerous domains, where optimizing both time and energy consumption is paramount. This paper introduces a novel methodology that considers the dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Víctor C. da S. Campos , Armando A. Neto , Douglas G. Macharet

Shape matching has been a long-studied problem for the computer graphics and vision community. The objective is to predict a dense correspondence between meshes that have a certain degree of deformation. Existing methods either consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Mahdi Saleh , Shun-Cheng Wu , Luca Cosmo , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam , Federico Tombari

Parametric shape optimization aims at minimizing an objective function f(x) where x are CAD parameters. This task is difficult when f is the output of an expensive-to-evaluate numerical simulator and the number of CAD parameters is large.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-06 David Gaudrie , Rodolphe Le Riche , Victor Picheny , Benoit Enaux , Vincent Herbert

It is well known that the solution of topology optimization problems may be affected both by the geometric properties of the computational mesh, which can steer the minimization process towards local (and non-physical) minima, and by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Paola F. Antonietti , Matteo Bruggi , Simone Scacchi , Marco Verani