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Inverse parallel schemes remain indispensable tools for computing the roots of nonlinear systems, yet their dynamical behavior can be unexpectedly rich, ranging from strong contraction to oscillatory or chaotic transients depending on the…

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This paper considers the numerical analysis of a semilinear fractional diffusion equation with nonsmooth initial data. A new Gr\"onwall's inequality and its discrete version are proposed. By the two inequalities, error estimates in three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Binjie Li , Tao Wang , Xiaoping Xie

An essential feature of the subdiffusion equations with the $\alpha$-order time fractional derivative is the weak singularity at the initial time. The weak regularity of the solution is usually characterized by a regularity parameter…

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We study the classical problem of recovering a multidimensional source signal from observations of nonlinear mixtures of this signal. We show that this recovery is possible (up to a permutation and monotone scaling of the source's original…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Alexander Schell , Harald Oberhauser

Recovering continuous-time dynamics from discrete observations is difficult because local supervision (e.g., pointwise regression targets, derivative approximations, or equation residuals) loses fidelity as the observation interval grows.…

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This work considers the reconstruction of a space-dependent potential from boundary observations in subdiffusion by a stable and robust recovery method. Specifically, we develop an algorithm to minimize the Kohn-Vogelius cost function,…

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In this paper, we consider a broad class of nonsmooth and nonconvex fractional programs, where the numerator can be written as the sum of a continuously differentiable convex function whose gradient is Lipschitz continuous and a proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Radu Ioan Boţ , Minh N. Dao , Guoyin Li

Linear causal models are important tools for modeling causal dependencies and yet in practice, only a subset of the variables can be observed. In this paper, we examine the parameter identifiability of these models by investigating whether…

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We study Cauchy problems of fractional differential equations in both space and time variables by expressing the solution in terms of ``stochastic composition" of the solutions to two simpler problems. These Cauchy sub-problems respectively…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Fabrizio Cinque , Enzo Orsingher

Many real-world systems modeled using differential equations involve unknown or uncertain parameters. Standard approaches to address parameter estimation inverse problems in this setting typically focus on estimating constants; yet some…

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In this work, we consider the numerical solution of an initial boundary value problem for the distributed order time fractional diffusion equation. The model arises in the mathematical modeling of ultra-slow diffusion processes observed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Dongwoo Sheen , Zhi Zhou

The subdiffusion equation with a Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time arises in a wide variety of practical applications, and it is often adopted to model anomalous subdiffusion processes in heterogeneous media.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

We study an identification problem which estimates the parameters of the underlying random distribution for uncertain scalar conservation laws. The hyperbolic equations are discretized with the so-called discontinuous stochastic Galerkin…

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Sum of a second derivative operator with periodic boundary conditions and an integral operator of rank one (non-local potential) is studied in this manuscript. Not only spectral analysis is conducted for this operator but the inverse…

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We consider fractional diffusion equations and study the stability of the inverse problem of determining the time-dependent parameter in a source term or a coefficient of zero-th order term from observations of the solution at one point in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Kenichi Fujishiro , Yavar Kian

We consider the problem of using experimental time-series data for parameter estimation in nonlinear ordinary differential equations, focusing on the case where the data is noisy, sparse, irregularly sampled, includes multiple experiments,…

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