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In this paper we present a topology optimization technique applicable to a broad range of flow design problems. We propose also a discrete adjoint formulation effective for a wide class of Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM). This adjoint…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Łukasz Łaniewski-Wołłk , Jacek Rokicki

In parallel simulation, convergence and parallelism are often seen as inherently conflicting objectives. Improved parallelism typically entails lighter local computation and weaker coupling, which unavoidably slow the global convergence.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Lei Lan , Zixuan Lu , Chun Yuan , Weiwei Xu , Hao Su , Huamin Wang , Chenfanfu Jiang , Yin Yang

The present paper aims at providing a numerical strategy to deal with PDE-constrained optimization problems solved with the adjoint method. It is done through out a unified formulation of the constraint PDE and the adjoint model. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Gino I. Montecinos , Juan Lopez-Rios , Jaime H. Ortega , Rodrigo Lecaros

This paper presents a novel adjoint solver for differentiable fluid simulation based on bidirectional flow maps. Our key observation is that the forward fluid solver and its corresponding backward, adjoint solver share the same flow map as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhiqi Li , Jinjin He , Barnabás Börcsök , Taiyuan Zhang , Duowen Chen , Tao Du , Ming C. Lin , Greg Turk , Bo Zhu

In gradient-based time domain topology optimization, design sensitivity analysis (DSA) of the dynamic response is essential, and requires high computational cost to directly differentiate, especially for high-order dynamic system. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Shuhao Li , Hu Wang , Jichao Yin , Xinchao Jiang , Yaya Zhang

Existing customization methods require access to multiple reference examples to align pre-trained diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) with user-provided concepts. This paper aims to address the challenge of DPM customization when the only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jiachun Pan , Jun Hao Liew , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Jiashi Feng , Hanshu Yan

The adjoint sensitivity method scalably computes gradients of solutions to ordinary differential equations. We generalize this method to stochastic differential equations, allowing time-efficient and constant-memory computation of gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xuechen Li , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong , Ricky T. Q. Chen , David Duvenaud

Direct methods for the simulation of optimal control problems apply a specific discretization to the dynamics of the problem, and the discrete adjoint method is suitable to calculate corresponding conditions to approximate an optimal…

The self-join finds all objects in a dataset within a threshold of each other defined by a similarity metric. As such, the self-join is a building block for the field of databases and data mining, and is employed in Big Data applications.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Michael Gowanlock , Ben Karsin

First-order optimization methods, such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants, are widely used in machine learning applications due to their simplicity and low per-iteration costs. However, they often require larger numbers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Chih-Hao Fang , Sudhir B Kylasa , Fred Roosta , Michael W. Mahoney , Ananth Grama

Adjoint methods enable the accurate calculation of the sensitivities of a quantity of interest. The sensitivity is obtained by solving the adjoint system, which can be derived by continuous or discrete adjoint strategies. In acoustic wave…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 Luca Magri

Due to critical environmental issues, the power systems have to accommodate a significant level of penetration of renewable generation which requires smart approaches to the power grid control. Associated optimal control problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Juraj Kardos , Drosos Kourounis , Olaf Schenk

Adjoint methods have gained popularity in recent years for driving adaptation procedures which aim to reduce error in solution functionals. While adjoint methods have been proven effective for functional-based adaptation, the practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-09 William C. Tyson , Christopher J. Roy

In this article we consider an optimization problem where the objective function is evaluated at the fixed-point of a contraction mapping parameterized by a control variable, and optimization takes place over this control variable. Since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Thomas Flynn

This study demonstrates how the adjoint-based framework traditionally used to compute gradients in PDE optimization problems can be extended to handle general constraints on the state variables. This is accomplished by constructing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Pritpal Matharu , Bartosz Protas

The adjoint method is an efficient way to numerically compute gradients in optimization problems with constraints, but is only formulated to differentiable cost and constraint functions on real variables. With the introduction of complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Andrew Zheng , Adam R. Stinchcombe

We consider the task of solving generic inverse problems, where one wishes to determine the hidden parameters of a natural system that will give rise to a particular set of measurements. Recently many new approaches based upon deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Simiao Ren , Willie Padilla , Jordan Malof

Innovative machine learning techniques have facilitated the inverse design of photonic structures for numerous practical applications. Nevertheless, within these approaches, the quantity of data and the initial data distribution are…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-07 Chanik Kang , Dongjin Seo , Svetlana V Boriskina , Haejun Chung

We consider the unit commitment (UC) problem that employs the alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) constraints, which is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem and thus challenging to solve in practice. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Weiqi Zhang , Youngdae Kim , Kibaek Kim

The recently introduced Gradient Methods with Memory use a subset of the past oracle information to create an accurate model of the objective function that enables them to surpass the Gradient Method in practical performance. The model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Mihai I. Florea