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Ordinary and partial differential equations (ODEs/PDEs) play a paramount role in analyzing and simulating complex dynamic processes across all corners of science and engineering. In recent years machine learning tools are aspiring to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Sifan Wang , Paris Perdikaris

Numerical simulation of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) can be challenging when the system exhibits high accelerations and rapidly changing dynamics. Under these conditions the ODE solver often needs to take very small time steps in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Andrew Tagg , Andrew Frandsen , Andrew Ning

Viewing neural network models in terms of their loss landscapes has a long history in the statistical mechanics approach to learning, and in recent years it has received attention within machine learning proper. Among other things, local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yaoqing Yang , Liam Hodgkinson , Ryan Theisen , Joe Zou , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Kannan Ramchandran , Michael W. Mahoney

Inverse problems exist in many domains such as phase imaging, image processing, and computer vision. These problems are often solved with application-specific algorithms, even though their nature remains the same: mapping input image(s) to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Feng Wang , Alberto Eljarrat , Johannes Müller , Trond Henninen , Erni Rolf , Christoph Koch

This paper proposes a physics-informed learning framework for a class of recurrent neural networks tailored to large-scale and networked systems. The approach aims to learn control-oriented models that preserve the structural and stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Daniele Ravasio , Claudia Sbardi , Marcello Farina , Andrea Ballarino

We study inverse optimization (IO), where the goal is to use a parametric optimization program as the hypothesis class to infer relationships between input-decision pairs. Most of the literature focuses on learning only the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Ke Ren , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Angelos Georghiou

In this work, we present a machine learning approach for reducing the error when numerically solving time-dependent partial differential equations (PDE). We use a fully convolutional LSTM network to exploit the spatiotemporal dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Ben Stevens , Tim Colonius

We present a framework for fine-tuning flow-matching generative models to enforce physical constraints and solve inverse problems in scientific systems. Starting from a model trained on low-fidelity or observational data, we apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jan Tauberschmidt , Sophie Fellenz , Sebastian J. Vollmer , Andrew B. Duncan

We analyze the optimization landscapes of deep learning with wide networks. We highlight the importance of constraints for such networks and show that constraint -- as well as unconstraint -- empirical-risk minimization over such networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Johannes Lederer

Low precision weights, activations, and gradients have been proposed as a way to improve the computational efficiency and memory footprint of deep neural networks. Recently, low precision networks have even shown to be more robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Griffin Lacey , Graham W. Taylor , Shawki Areibi

In this work we propose an extension of physics informed supervised learning strategies to parametric partial differential equations. Indeed, even if the latter are indisputably useful in many applications, they can be computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Nicola Demo , Maria Strazzullo , Gianluigi Rozza

This paper considers distributed optimization problems, where each agent cooperatively minimizes the sum of local objective functions through the communication with its neighbors. The widely adopted distributed gradient method in solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yeming Xu , Ziyuan Guo , Kaihong Lu , Huanshui Zhang

Deep Neural Networks achieve state-of-the-art results in many different problem settings by exploiting vast amounts of training data. However, collecting, storing and - in the case of supervised learning - labelling the data is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Matthias Rath , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Inverse problems are extensively studied in applied mathematics, with applications ranging from acoustic tomography for medical diagnosis to geophysical exploration. Physics informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool…

Many types of neural network layers rely on matrix properties such as invertibility or orthogonality. Retaining such properties during optimization with gradient-based stochastic optimizers is a challenging task, which is usually addressed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-02 Andreas Krämer , Jonas Köhler , Frank Noé

We explore training deep neural network models in conjunction with physics simulations via partial differential equations (PDEs), using the simulated degrees of freedom as latent space for a neural network. In contrast to previous work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Chloe Paliard , Nils Thuerey , Kiwon Um

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain regularization parameters for solving inverse problems. We consider a supervised learning approach, where a network is trained to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are machine learning tools that approximate the solution of general partial differential equations (PDEs) by adding them in some form as terms of the loss/cost function of a Neural Network. Most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Antonio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes , Larissa Miguez da Silva , Frederic Valentin

Inverse design arises in a variety of areas in engineering such as acoustic, mechanics, thermal/electronic transport, electromagnetism, and optics. Topology optimization is a major form of inverse design, where we optimize a designed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Lu Lu , Raphael Pestourie , Wenjie Yao , Zhicheng Wang , Francesc Verdugo , Steven G. Johnson