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In a recent paper, J. Chem. Phys. 162, 214101 (2025), a novel approach for the rigidification of a molecular cluster was proposed, in which starting with an all-atom (AA) potential, a coarse-grained (CG) potential for the associated cluster…

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The development of machine learning is promoting the search for fast and stable minimization algorithms. To this end, we suggest a change in the current gradient descent methods that should speed up the motion in flat regions and slow it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Marco Baiesi

We analyze the Accelerated Noisy Power Method, an algorithm for Principal Component Analysis in the setting where only inexact matrix-vector products are available, which can arise for instance in decentralized PCA. While previous works…

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This paper proposes a way to combine the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm with the Cross-Entropy (CE) method for non smooth constrained optimization. The CE method is used as a Search step by the MADS algorithm. The result of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Charles Audet , Romain Couderc , Jean Bigeon

For the purposes of electric circuit simulation, we consider an iterative simulation model based on solving systems of linear equations by Gauss-Jordan elimination (GJE) for individual moments in time. To accelerate the simulation, we…

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The successes of deep learning, variational inference, and many other fields have been aided by specialized implementations of reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) to compute gradients of mega-dimensional objectives. The AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Joshua Aduol , Alex Beatson , Ryan P. Adams

We present a modified version of the nudged elastic band (NEB) algorithm to find minimum energy paths con-necting two known configurations. We show that replacing the harmonic band-energy term with a discretized version of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Davide Mandelli , Michele Parrinello

We propose and analyze an Accelerated Rearrangement Method (ARM) for solving a class of nonconvex optimization problems involving two-phase composites. These problems include maximizing the (work) energy of a membrane governed by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Chiu-Yen Kao , Seyyed Abbas Mohammadi , Braxton Osting

Finding optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems is pivotal in both scientific and technological domains, within academic research and industrial applications. A considerable amount of effort has been invested in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-13 Zi-Song Shen , Feng Pan , Yao Wang , Yi-Ding Men , Wen-Biao Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Pan Zhang

In [Meurant, Pape\v{z}, Tich\'y; Numerical Algorithms 88, 2021], we presented an adaptive estimate for the energy norm of the error in the conjugate gradient (CG) method. In this paper, we extend the estimate to algorithms for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Jan Papež , Petr Tichý

In deep learning inference, model parameters are pruned and quantized to reduce the model size. Compression methods and common subexpression (CSE) elimination algorithms are applied on sparse constant matrices to deploy the models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Emre Bilgili , Arda Yurdakul

Designing an optimal deep neural network for a given task is important and challenging in many machine learning applications. To address this issue, we introduce a self-adaptive algorithm: the adaptive network enhancement (ANE) method,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Zhiqiang Cai , Jingshuang Chen , Min Liu

Adaptive Gradient Descent with Energy (AEGD) is a variant of gradient descent (GD) designed to mitigate step-size sensitivity through an energy-based formulation. AEGD is notable for its unconditional energy stability, which guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Lin Feng , Hailiang Liu

To date, power electronics parameter design tasks are usually tackled using detailed optimization approaches with detailed simulations or using brute force grid search grid search with very fast simulations. A new method, named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Dominik Happel , Philipp Brendel , Andreas Rosskopf , Stefan Ditze

The growing reliance of electric power systems on gas-fired generation to balance intermittent sources of renewable energy has increased the variation and volume of flows through natural gas transmission pipelines. Adapting pipeline…

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Runtime energy management has become quintessential for multi-sensor autonomous systems at the edge for achieving high performance given the platform constraints. Typical for such systems, however, is to have their controllers designed with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Mohanad Odema , James Ferlez , Yasser Shoukry , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Discrete optimization is a central problem in artificial intelligence. The optimization of the aggregated cost of a network of cost functions arises in a variety of problems including (W)CSP, DCOP, as well as optimization in stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Ferdinando Fioretto , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh , Rina Dechter

Power system restoration after a major blackout is a complex process, in which selection of energising paths is a key issue to realize unit and load restoration safely and efficiently. In general, the energising path scheme made beforehand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-13 Shaoyan Li , Xueping Gu , Guangqi Zhou , Yang Li

AC State Estimation (ACSE) is widely recognized as a practical approach for determining the grid states in steady-state conditions. It serves as a fundamental analysis to ensure grid security and is a reference for market dispatch. As grid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Peng Sang , Amritanshu Pandey

Principal Component Analysis is a novel way of of dimensionality reduction. This problem essentially boils down to finding the top k eigen vectors of the data covariance matrix. A considerable amount of literature is found on algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Jian Vora