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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Chengzhi Mao , Purva Tendulkar , Hao Wang , Carl Vondrick

Training a neural network requires navigating a high-dimensional, non-convex loss surface to find parameters that minimize this loss. In many ways, it is surprising that optimizers such as stochastic gradient descent and ADAM can reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Conor Rowan , Finn Murphy-Blanchard

Physics-Informed Neural Networks have shown unique utility in parameterising the solution of a well-defined partial differential equation using automatic differentiation and residual losses. Though they provide theoretical guarantees of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Vignesh Gopakumar , Stanislas Pamela , Debasmita Samaddar

This paper explores the difficulties in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). PINNs use physics as a regularization term in the objective function. However, a drawback of this approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shamsulhaq Basir

We propose a novel composite framework to find unknown fields in the context of inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs). We blend the high expressibility of deep neural networks as universal function estimators with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Samira Pakravan , Pouria A. Mistani , Miguel Angel Aragon-Calvo , Frederic Gibou

Neural networks can be used to learn the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on arbitrary domains without requiring a computational mesh. Common approaches integrate differential operators in training neural networks using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Shamsulhaq Basir , Inanc Senocak

The success of deep learning is due, to a large extent, to the remarkable effectiveness of gradient-based optimization methods applied to large neural networks. The purpose of this work is to propose a modern view and a general mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Chaoyue Liu , Libin Zhu , Mikhail Belkin

Traditional maximum entropy and sparsity-based algorithms for analytic continuation often suffer from the ill-posed kernel matrix or demand tremendous computation time for parameter tuning. Here we propose a neural network method by convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Dongchen Huang , Yi-feng Yang

Deep neural networks are workhorse models in machine learning with multiple layers of non-linear functions composed in series. Their loss function is highly non-convex, yet empirically even gradient descent minimisation is sufficient to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-18 Simon Becker , Yao Zhang , Alpha A. Lee

In all but the most trivial optimization problems, the structure of the solutions exhibit complex interdependencies between the input parameters. Decades of research with stochastic search techniques has shown the benefit of explicitly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Shumeet Baluja

There are many surprising and perhaps counter-intuitive properties of optimization of deep neural networks. We propose and experimentally verify a unified phenomenological model of the loss landscape that incorporates many of them. High…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Stanislav Fort , Stanislaw Jastrzebski

One of the major concerns for neural network training is that the non-convexity of the associated loss functions may cause bad landscape. The recent success of neural networks suggests that their loss landscape is not too bad, but what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ruoyu Sun , Dawei Li , Shiyu Liang , Tian Ding , R Srikant

We show that the error achievable using physics-informed neural networks for solving systems of differential equations can be substantially reduced when these networks are trained using meta-learned optimization methods rather than to using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Alex Bihlo

The loss surface of deep neural networks has recently attracted interest in the optimization and machine learning communities as a prime example of high-dimensional non-convex problem. Some insights were recently gained using spin glass…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-05 C. Daniel Freeman , Joan Bruna

Deep neural networks (DNN) have been used to model nonlinear relations between physical quantities. Those DNNs are embedded in physical systems described by partial differential equations (PDE) and trained by minimizing a loss function that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Kailai Xu , Eric Darve

Solving inverse and optimization problems over solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex spatial domains is a long-standing challenge. Here we introduce a method that parameterizes the solution using spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 James V. Roggeveen , Michael P. Brenner

Distributed training in deep learning (DL) is common practice as data and models grow. The current practice for distributed training of deep neural networks faces the challenges of communication bottlenecks when operating at scale, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Shubhankar Gahlot , Junqi Yin , Mallikarjun Shankar

In recent years, deep learning-based methods have been proposed for solving inverse scattering problems (ISPs), but most of them heavily rely on data and suffer from limited generalization capabilities. In this paper, a new solving scheme…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yutong Du , Zicheng Liu , Bazargul Matkerim , Changyou Li , Yali Zong , Bo Qi , Jingwei Kou

The success of deep neural networks hinges on our ability to accurately and efficiently optimize high-dimensional, non-convex functions. In this paper, we empirically investigate the loss functions of state-of-the-art networks, and how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Michael Tao , Kristin Branson

Machine learning methods are commonly used to solve inverse problems, wherein an unknown signal must be estimated from few indirect measurements generated via a known acquisition procedure. In particular, neural networks perform well…

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