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The single droplet under shear is a foundational problem in fluid mechanics. In computational fluid dynamics, the two-dimensional (2D) formulation offers advantages in both computational efficiency and relevance, yet its theoretical…

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Differential equations parameterized by neural networks become expensive to solve numerically as training progresses. We propose a remedy that encourages learned dynamics to be easier to solve. Specifically, we introduce a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jacob Kelly , Jesse Bettencourt , Matthew James Johnson , David Duvenaud

Accurately forecasting the long-term evolution of turbulence represents a grand challenge in scientific computing and is crucial for applications ranging from climate modeling to aerospace engineering. Existing deep learning methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hao Wu , Yuan Gao , Fan Xu , Fan Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Kun Wang , Xiaomeng Huang , Xian Wu

This paper is devoted to studying the first-order variational analysis of non-convex and non-differentiable functions that may not be subdifferentially regular. To achieve this goal, we entirely rely on two concepts of directional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Ashkan Mohammadi

This contribution proposes a new formulation to efficiently compute directional derivatives of order one to fourth. The formulation is based on automatic differentiation implemented with dual numbers. Directional derivatives are particular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-14 R. Peón-Escalante , K. B. Cantún-Avila , O. Carvente , A. Espinosa-Romero , F. Peñuñuri

This paper presents a new approach to the detection of discontinuities in the n-th derivative of observational data. This is achieved by performing two polynomial approximations at each interstitial point. The polynomials are coupled by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Dimitar Ninevski , Paul O'Leary

Motivated by the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) for the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a dielectric obstacle that can be considered as a simple discretization of a Lippmann-Schwinger style volume integral equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Martin Costabel , Monique Dauge , Khadijeh Nedaiasl

The simple product formulae for derivatives of scalar functions raised to different powers are generalized for functions which take values in the set of symmetric positive definite matrices. These formulae are fundamental in derivation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Michal Bathory

We derive a numerically stable method to compute an image representation of an unknown linear system only from data, leveraging a continuous-time version of Willems et al.'s fundamental lemma. To this end, we use derivatives approximated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Amine Othmane , Philipp Schmitz , Karl Worthmann , Kathrin Flaßkamp

Uncovering the underlying ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that govern dynamic systems is crucial for advancing our understanding of complex phenomena. Traditional symbolic regression methods often struggle to capture the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yang Chang , Kuang-Da Wang , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Cheng-Kuan Lin , Wen-Chih Peng

We introduce derivative sensitivity, an analogue to local sensitivity for continuous functions. We use this notion in an analysis that determines the amount of noise to be added to the result of a database query in order to obtain a certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Peeter Laud , Alisa Pankova , Martin Pettai

We consider Hadamard fractional derivatives and integrals of variable fractional order. A new type of fractional operator, which we call the Hadamard-Marchaud fractional derivative, is also considered. The objective is to represent these…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

A development of an inverse first-order divided difference operator for functions of several variables is presented. Two generalized derivative-free algorithms builded up from Ostrowski's method for solving systems of nonlinear equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Miquel Grau-Sánchez , Miquel Noguera , Sergio Amat

Calculating the value of $C^{k\in\{1,\infty\}}$ class of smoothness real-valued function's derivative in point of $\mathbb{R}^+$ in radius of convergence of its Taylor polynomial (or series), applying an analog of Newton's binomial theorem…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Kolosov Petro

In the context of data-driven control of nonlinear systems, many approaches lack of rigorous guarantees, call for nonconvex optimization, or require knowledge of a function basis containing the system dynamics. To tackle these drawbacks, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Tim Martin , Frank Allgöwer

We present a method for computing reduced-order models of parameterized partial differential equation solutions. The key analytical tool is the singular value expansion of the parameterized solution, which we approximate with a singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Paul G. Constantine , David F. Gleich , Yangyang Hou , Jeremy Templeton

We present a method for the numerical calculation of derivatives of functions of general complex matrices. The method can be used in combination with any algorithm that evaluates or approximates the desired matrix function, in particular…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-10-13 M. Puhr , P. V. Buividovich

It is an established fact that a finite difference operator approximates a derivative with a fixed algebraic rate of convergence. Nevertheless, we exhibit a new finite difference operator and prove it has spectral accuracy. Its rate of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Andre Nachbin

This paper deals with a copies-based continuously differentiable and strictly decreasing estimator of the drift function for stochastic differential equations defining recurrent diffusion processes. The first part of our paper deals with…

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