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In the recent years, high energy physics discoveries have been driven by the increasing of luminosity and/or detector granularity. This evolution gives access to bigger statistics and data samples, but can make it hard to process results…

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We investigate the graph-based convolutional neural network approach for predicting and ranking gas adsorption properties of crystalline Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) adsorbents for application in post-combustion capture of $\textrm{CO}_2$.…

In this paper, the CONFIG algorithm, a simple and provably efficient constrained global optimization algorithm, is applied to optimize the closed-loop control performance of an unknown system with unmodeled constraints. Existing Gaussian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Wenjie Xu , Yuning Jiang , Bratislav Svetozarevic , Colin N. Jones

Non-Gaussian and multimodal distributions are an important part of many recent robust sensor fusion algorithms. In difference to robust cost functions, they are probabilistically founded and have good convergence properties. Since their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Tim Pfeifer , Peter Protzel

Modern network-constrained unit commitment (NCUC) bears a heavy computational burden due to the ever-growing model scale. This situation becomes more challenging when detailed operational characteristics, complicated constraints, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Zekuan Yu , Haiwang Zhong , Guangchun Ruan , Xinfei Yan

The optimization of atomic structures plays a pivotal role in understanding and designing materials with desired properties. However, conventional computational methods often struggle with the formidable task of navigating the vast…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Peder Lyngby , Casper Larsen , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

This study proposes a novel topology optimization method for unsteady fluid flows induced by actively moving rigid bodies. The key idea of the proposed method is to decouple the design and analysis domains by using separate grids. The…

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Optimal design facilitates intelligent data collection. In this paper, we introduce a fully Bayesian design approach for spatial processes with complex covariance structures, like those typically exhibited in natural ecosystems. Coordinate…

We propose a method that performs anomaly detection and localisation within heterogeneous data using a pairwise undirected mixed graphical model. The data are a mixture of categorical and quantitative variables, and the model is learned…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-21 Romain Laby , François Roueff , Alexandre Gramfort

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is a method for Bayesian inference when the likelihood is unavailable but simulating from the model is possible. However, many ABC algorithms require a large number of simulations, which can be costly.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-15 Marko Järvenpää , Michael U. Gutmann , Arijus Pleska , Aki Vehtari , Pekka Marttinen

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is crucial for ensuring the reliability of automated image segmentations in safety-critical domains like biomedical image analysis or autonomous driving. In segmentation, UQ generates pixel-wise uncertainty…

This paper introduces two variational formulations for a model of robust optimal transport, that is, the problem of designing optimal transport networks that are resilient to potential damages, balancing construction costs against the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Luigi De Masi , Andrea Marchese , Annalisa Massaccesi

In the graph domain, deep graph networks based on Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) or Graph Transformers often cause over-smoothing of node features, limiting their expressive capacity. Many upsampling techniques involving node and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiaotang Wang , Yun Zhu , Haizhou Shi , Yongchao Liu , Yongqi Zhang

The pooling problem has applications, e.g., in petrochemical refining, water networks, and supply chains and is widely studied in global optimization. To date, it has largely been treated deterministically, neglecting the influence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Johannes Wiebe , Inês Cecílio , Ruth Misener

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) in brain imaging is crucial for identifying pathologies without the need for labeled data. However, accurately localizing anomalies remains challenging due to the intricate structure of brain anatomy and…

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Solving the optimal power flow (OPF) problem is a fundamental task to ensure the system efficiency and reliability in real-time electricity grid operations. We develop a new topology-informed graph neural network (GNN) approach for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Shaohui Liu , Chengyang Wu , Hao Zhu

Numerous formalisms and dedicated algorithms have been designed in the last decades to model and solve decision making problems. Some formalisms, such as constraint networks, can express "simple" decision problems, while others are designed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-13 C. Pralet , T. Schiex , G. Verfaillie

To more flexibly balance between exploration and exploitation, a new meta-heuristic method based on Uncertainty Principle concepts is proposed in this paper. UP is is proved effective in multiple branches of science. In the branch of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Mojtaba Moattari , Mohammad Hassan Moradi , Emad Roshandel

In many choice modeling applications, people demand is frequently characterized as multiple discrete, which means that people choose multiple items simultaneously. The analysis and prediction of people behavior in multiple discrete choice…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-06-08 Hung Tran , Tien Mai

Bayesian optimisation has been successfully applied to a variety of reinforcement learning problems. However, the traditional approach for learning optimal policies in simulators does not utilise the opportunity to improve learning by…