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This work addresses optimal control problems governed by a linear time-dependent partial differential equation (PDE) as well as integer constraints on the control. Moreover, partial observations are assumed in the objective function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Dominik Garmatter , Margherita Porcelli , Francesco Rinaldi , Martin Stoll

In certain practical engineering applications, there is an urgent need to perform repetitive solving of partial differential equations (PDEs) in a short period. This paper primarily considers three scenarios requiring extensive repetitive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Bo Yang , Xingquan Li , Jie Zhao , Ying Jiang

Neural operators have been applied in various scientific fields, such as solving parametric partial differential equations, dynamical systems with control, and inverse problems. However, challenges arise when dealing with input functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Zecheng Zhang , Christian Moya , Lu Lu , Guang Lin , Hayden Schaeffer

Boundary conditions (BCs) are important groups of physics-enforced constraints that are necessary for solutions of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) to satisfy at specific spatial locations. These constraints carry important physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Nadim Saad , Gaurav Gupta , Shima Alizadeh , Danielle C. Maddix

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs), one of the most influential works of the differential equation-based deep learning, are to continuously generalize residual networks and opened a new field. They are currently utilized for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Woojin Cho , Seunghyeon Cho , Hyundong Jin , Jinsung Jeon , Kookjin Lee , Sanghyun Hong , Dongeun Lee , Jonghyun Choi , Noseong Park

Maxwell's equations, a system of linear partial differential equations (PDEs), describe the behavior of electric and magnetic fields in time and space and are essential for many important electromagnetic applications. Although numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Qile Jiang , Marc Salvadori , Dale Ota , Vijaya Shankar , Khemraj Shukla

Neural Operators (NOs) are machine learning models designed to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) by learning to map between function spaces. Neural Operators such as the Deep Operator Network (DeepONet) and the Fourier Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 W. Diab , M. Al-Kobaisi

Control problems frequently arise in scientific and industrial applications, where the objective is to steer a dynamical system from an initial state to a desired target state. Recent advances in deep learning and automatic differentiation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Lucas Böttcher

In this work, we introduce a novel strategy for tackling constrained optimization problems through a modified penalty method. Conventional penalty methods convert constrained problems into unconstrained ones by incorporating constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Shilin Ma , Yukun Yue

Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) often requires real-time solution to optimization problems. However, in cases where the mathematical model is of high dimension in the solution space, e.g. for solution of partial differential…

Deep neural networks are powerful tools for solving nonlinear problems in science and engineering, but training highly accurate models becomes challenging as problem complexity increases. Non-convex optimization and sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ethan Mulle , Wei Kang , Qi Gong

This paper proposes the Nerual Energy Descent (NED) via neural network evolution equations for a wide class of deep learning problems. We show that deep learning can be reformulated as the evolution of network parameters in an evolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Wenrui Hao , Chunmei Wang , Xingjian Xu , Haizhao Yang

Deep neural networks that approximate nonlinear function-to-function mappings, i.e., operators, which are called DeepONet, have been demonstrated in recent articles to be capable of encoding entire PDE control methodologies, such as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Shanshan Wang , Mamadou Diagne , Miroslav Krstić

Deep Operator Networks (DeepONets) have emerged as a powerful surrogate modeling framework for learning solution operators in PDE-governed systems. While their use is expanding across engineering disciplines, applications in geotechnical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yongjin Choi , Chenying Liu , Jorge Macedo

Operator learning aims to discover properties of an underlying dynamical system or partial differential equation (PDE) from data. Here, we present a step-by-step guide to operator learning. We explain the types of problems and PDEs amenable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Nicolas Boullé , Alex Townsend

Deep learning based approaches like Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and DeepONets have shown promise on solving PDE constrained optimization (PDECO) problems. However, existing methods are insufficient to handle those PDE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Zhongkai Hao , Chengyang Ying , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Jian Song , Ze Cheng

Designing controllers that achieve task objectives while ensuring safety is a key challenge in control systems. This work introduces Opt-ODENet, a Neural ODE framework with a differentiable Quadratic Programming (QP) optimization layer to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Keyan Miao , Liqun Zhao , Han Wang , Konstantinos Gatsis , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Neural Operators offer a powerful, data-driven tool for solving parametric PDEs as they can represent maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces. In this work, we employ physics-informed Neural Operators in the context of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-08 Sebastian Kaltenbach , Paris Perdikaris , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

In this paper, we propose a a machine learning approach via model-operator-data network (MOD-Net) for solving PDEs. A MOD-Net is driven by a model to solve PDEs based on operator representation with regularization from data. For linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Lulu Zhang , Tao Luo , Yaoyu Zhang , Weinan E , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Zheng Ma

Energy-Dissipative Evolutionary Deep Operator Neural Network is an operator learning neural network. It is designed to seed numerical solutions for a class of partial differential equations instead of a single partial differential equation,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-13 Jiahao Zhang , Shiheng Zhang , Jie Shen , Guang Lin