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Partial differential equations (PDEs) are often computationally challenging to solve, and in many settings many related PDEs must be be solved either at every timestep or for a variety of candidate boundary conditions, parameters, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Tian Qin , Alex Beatson , Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Ryan P. Adams

This paper surveys studies on the use of neural networks for optimization in the training-data-free setting. Specifically, we examine the dataless application of neural network architectures in optimization by re-parameterizing problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alvaro Velasquez , Susmit Jha , Ismail R. Alkhouri

Visualizing graphs using virtual physical models is probably the most heavily used technique for drawing graphs in practice. There are many algorithms that are efficient and produce high-quality layouts. If one requires that the layout also…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Emden R. Gansner , Yifan Hu , Shankar Krishnan

Representing shapes as level sets of neural networks has been recently proved to be useful for different shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. So far, such representations were computed using either: (i) pre-computed implicit shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Amos Gropp , Lior Yariv , Niv Haim , Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

This article proposes a new discrete framework for approximating solutions to shape optimization problems under convexity constraints. The numerical method, based on the support function or the gauge function, is guaranteed to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Beniamin Bogosel

Existing 3D surface representation approaches are unable to accurately classify pixels and their orientation lying on the boundary of an object. Thus resulting in coarse representations which usually require post-processing steps to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Jhony K. Pontes , Dominic Jack , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

A non parametric, level set free method is proposed for detecting image boundaries using the shape gradient of the Mumford Shah energy for segmentation. Minimizing the variance in pixel intensities inside and outside a boundary set of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shafeequdheen P , Jyotiranjan Nayak , Vijayakrishna Rowthu

We implement a shape optimization algorithm for body-assisted light-matter interactions described by the formalism of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. The approach uses the level-set method to represent and incrementally evolve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jonas Matuszak , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Robert Bennett

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

We consider discretized two-dimensional PDE-constrained shape optimization problems, in which shapes are represented by triangular meshes. Given the connectivity, the space of admissible vertex positions was recently identified to be a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Roland Herzog , Estefanía Loayza-Romero

The problem of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) can be formulated into a least-squares minimization problem, where neural networks are used to parametrize PDE solutions. A global minimizer corresponds to a neural network that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Tao Luo , Haizhao Yang

Numerical simulation is indispensable in industrial design processes. It can replace expensive experiments and even reduce the need for prototypes. While products designed with the aid of numerical simulation undergo continuous improvement,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Henning Wessels , Christian Weißenfels , Peter Wriggers

For the numerical solution of shape optimization problems, particularly those constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs), the quality of the underlying mesh is of utmost importance. Particularly when investigating complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth , Christian Leithäuser

We introduce a new level-set shape optimization approach based on polytopic (i.e., polygonal in two and polyhedral in three spatial dimensions) discontinuous Galerkin methods. The approach benefits from the geometric mesh flexibility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Raphael S. Fernandes , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Alberto Paganini

In this paper, we compute numerical approximations of the minimal surfaces, an essential type of Partial Differential Equation (PDE), in higher dimensions. Classical methods cannot handle it in this case because of the Curse of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Steven Zhou , Xiaojing Ye

Since the seminal work of Idelsohn, O\~nate and Del-Pin (2004), the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) has relied on a Delaunay triangulation and the Alpha--Shape (AS) algorithm in the remeshing process. This approach guarantees a good…

We present a novel application of neural networks to design improved mixing elements for single-screw extruders. Specifically, we propose to use neural networks in numerical shape optimization to parameterize geometries. Geometry…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Jaewook Lee , Sebastian Hube , Stefanie Elgeti

Simulations of complex physical systems are typically realized by discretizing partial differential equations (PDEs) on unstructured meshes. While neural networks have recently been explored for surrogate and reduced order modeling of PDE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jiayang Xu , Aniruddhe Pradhan , Karthik Duraisamy

Multilevel optimization has gained renewed interest in machine learning due to its promise in applications such as hyperparameter tuning and continual learning. However, existing methods struggle with the inherent difficulty of efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yuntian Gu , Xuzheng Chen

We propose a new algorithm for the design of topologically optimized lightweight structures, under a minimum compliance requirement. The new process enhances a standard level set formulation in terms of computational efficiency, thanks to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Davide Cortellessa , Nicola Ferro , Simona Perotto , Stefano Micheletti