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Deep energy-based models are powerful, but pose challenges for learning and inference (Belanger and McCallum, 2016). Tu and Gimpel (2018) developed an efficient framework for energy-based models by training "inference networks" to…

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Learning at the edge is a challenging task from several perspectives, since data must be collected by end devices (e.g. sensors), possibly pre-processed (e.g. data compression), and finally processed remotely to output the result of…

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Classical network embeddings create a low dimensional representation of the learned relationships between features across nodes. Such embeddings are important for tasks such as link prediction and node classification. In the current paper,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Chris Connell , Yang Wang

Recent research has used deep learning to develop partial differential equation (PDE) models in science and engineering. The functional form of the PDE is determined by a neural network, and the neural network parameters are calibrated to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Justin Sirignano , Jonathan MacArt , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

Finding tight bounds on the optimal solution is a critical element of practical solution methods for discrete optimization problems. In the last decade, decision diagrams (DDs) have brought a new perspective on obtaining upper and lower…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Quentin Cappart , Emmanuel Goutierre , David Bergman , Louis-Martin Rousseau

We learn recurrent neural network optimizers trained on simple synthetic functions by gradient descent. We show that these learned optimizers exhibit a remarkable degree of transfer in that they can be used to efficiently optimize a broad…

Balancing convergence speed, generalization capability, and computational efficiency remains a core challenge in deep learning optimization. First-order gradient descent methods, epitomized by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and Adam,…

In this paper, we focus on the problem of integrating Energy-based Models (EBM) as guiding priors for motion optimization. EBMs are a set of neural networks that can represent expressive probability density distributions in terms of a Gibbs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Julen Urain , An T. Le , Alexander Lambert , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Byron Boots , Jan Peters

Variational Physics-Informed Neural Networks often suffer from poor convergence when using stochastic gradient-descent-based optimizers. By introducing a Least Squares solver for the weights of the last layer of the neural network, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Carlos Uriarte , Manuela Bastidas , David Pardo , Jamie M. Taylor , Sergio Rojas

We design the helicity-conservative physics-informed neural network model for the Navier-Stokes equation in the ideal case. The key is to provide an appropriate PDE model as loss function so that its neural network solutions produce…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Jiwei Jia , Young Ju Lee , Ziqian Li , Zheng Lu , Ran Zhang

Neural networks often require large amounts of data to generalize and can be ill-suited for modeling small and noisy experimental datasets. Standard network architectures trained on scarce and noisy data will return predictions that violate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Gregory Barber , Mulugeta A. Haile , Tzikang Chen

In pursuit of enhancing the predication capabilities of the neural network, it has been a longstanding objective to create dataset encompassing a diverse array of samples. The purpose is to broaden the horizons of neural network and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Chao-Chao Li , Run-Hong He , Zhao-Ming Wang

Understanding how complex systems respond to perturbations, such as whether they will remain stable or what their most sensitive patterns are, is a fundamental challenge across science and engineering. Traditional stability and receptivity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Chengyun Wang , Liwei Chen , Nils Thuerey

With the growth of model and data sizes, a broad effort has been made to design pruning techniques that reduce the resource demand of deep learning pipelines, while retaining model performance. In order to reduce both inference and training…

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The high computational complexity and increasing parameter counts of deep neural networks pose significant challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments, such as edge devices or real-time systems. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Laura Erb , Tommaso Boccato , Alexandru Vasilache , Juergen Becker , Nicola Toschi

Quantum machines are among the most promising technologies expected to provide significant improvements in the following years. However, bridging the gap between real-world applications and their implementation on quantum hardware is still…

The EM (Expectation-Maximization) algorithm is regarded as an MM (Majorization-Minimization) algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation of statistical models. Expanding this view, this paper demonstrates that by choosing an appropriate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Kensuke Asai , Jun-ya Gotoh

This paper explores the possibilities of applying physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) in topology optimization (TO) by introducing a fully self-supervised TO framework that is based on PINNs. This framework solves the forward…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Junyan He , Shashank Kushwaha , Charul Chadha , Seid Koric , Diab Abueidda , Iwona Jasiuk

Many statistical estimators are defined as the fixed point of a data-dependent operator, with estimators based on minimizing a cost function being an important special case. The limiting performance of such estimators depends on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nhat Ho , Koulik Khamaru , Raaz Dwivedi , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan , Bin Yu