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The development of machine learning interatomic potentials faces a critical computational bottleneck with the generation and labeling of useful training datasets. We present a novel application of determinantal point processes (DPPs) to the…

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This paper evaluates the cost competitiveness of microreactors in today's electricity markets, with a focus on uncertainties in reactor costs. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to optimize key technical parameters, such as reactor capacity,…

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We present an analysis of landscape features for predicting the performance of multi-objective combinatorial optimization algorithms. We consider features from the recently proposed compressed Pareto Local Optimal Solutions Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ana Nikolikj , Gabriela Ochoa , Tome Eftimov

In recent years, several successful applications of the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have emerged in nuclear physics and high-energy physics, as well as in biology, chemistry, meteorology, and other fields of science. A major goal of…

Particle accelerators are enabling tools for scientific exploration and discovery in various disciplines. Finding optimized operation points for these complex machines is a challenging task, however, due to the large number of parameters…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Renato Bellotti , Romana Boiger , Andreas Adelmann

We propose conformal predictive programming (CPP), a framework to solve chance constrained optimization problems, i.e., optimization problems with constraints that are functions of random variables. CPP utilizes samples from these random…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Yiqi Zhao , Xinyi Yu , Matteo Sesia , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Lars Lindemann

This work considers a multiobjective version of the unit commitment problem that deals with finding the optimal generation schedule of a firm, over a period of time and a given electrical network. With growing importance of environmental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ece Tevruez , Aswin Kannan

Single-site Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a variant of MCMC in which a single coordinate in the state space is modified in each step. Structured relational models are a good candidate for this style of inference. In the single-site…

New developments have been brought to our energy-, spin- and parity-dependent nuclear level densities based on the microscopic combinatorial method. Our new calculation is based on the BSkG3 mean-field model which relies on a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 S. Goriely , W. Ryssens , S. Hilaire , A. J. Koning

Traditional robust multi-objective optimization methods typically prioritize convergence while treating robustness as a secondary consideration. This approach can yield solutions that are not genuinely robust optimal under noise-affected…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lihong Xu , Wenxiang Jiang

Many modern data mining applications are concerned with the analysis of datasets in which the observations are described by paired high-dimensional vectorial representations or "views". Some typical examples can be found in web mining and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-07 Brian McWilliams , Giovanni Montana

The Coupled Cluster (CC) method is used to compute the electronic correlation energy in atoms and molecules and often leads to highly accurate results. However, due to its single-reference nature, standard CC in its projected form fails to…

This paper tackles the multi-vehicle Coverage Path Planning (CPP) problem, crucial for applications like search and rescue or environmental monitoring. Due to its NP-hard nature, finding optimal solutions becomes infeasible with larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Poojith U Rao , Florian Speelman , Balwinder Sodhi , Sachin Kinge

We call change-point problem (CPP) the identification of changes in the probabilistic behavior of a sequence of observations. Solving the CPP involves detecting the number and position of such changes. In genetics the study of how and what…

Applications · Statistics 2017-01-18 Murilo S. Pinheiro , Benilton S. Carvalho , Aluísio S. Pinheiro

High-precision predictions of nuclear properties are a central objective of ab initio nuclear structure theory. However, state-of-the-art many-body methods rely on truncated model spaces to render the nuclear many-body problem tractable,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Marco Knöll

Strategically locating sawmills is critical for the efficiency, profitability, and sustainability of timber supply chains, yet it involves a series of complex decision-making affected by various factors, such as proximity to resources and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mahid Ahmed , Ali Dogru , Chaoyang Zhang , Chao Meng

While state-of-the-art development in CNN topology, such as VGGNet and ResNet, have become increasingly accurate, these networks are computationally expensive involving billions of arithmetic operations and parameters. To improve the…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ziwei Wang , Martin A. Trefzer , Simon J. Bale , Andy M. Tyrrell

Ensuring energy-efficient design in neuromorphic computing systems necessitates a tailored architecture combined with algorithmic approaches. This manuscript focuses on enhancing brain-inspired perceptual computing machines through a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ali Shiri Sichani , Sai Kankatala

We present an application focused on the design of resilient long-reach passive optical networks. We specifically consider dual-parented networks whereby each customer must be connected to two metro sites via local exchange sites. An…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-07 Hadrien Cambazard , Deepak Mehta , Barry O'Sullivan , Luis Quesada , Marco Ruffini , David Payne , Linda Doyle

Operation management of nuclear power plants consists of several computationally hard problems. Searching for an in-core fuel loading pattern is among them. The main challenge of this combinatorial optimization problem is the exponential…