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In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

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Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of different mechanical systems. In this paper, we introduce an iterative procedure for the solution of discrete variational equations for boundary value…

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We propose and analyze a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem that involves an elliptic partial differential equation as state equation and a control variable that enters the state equation as a coefficient; pointwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otarola

By enabling constraint-aware online model adaptation, model predictive control using Gaussian process (GP) regression has exhibited impressive performance in real-world applications and received considerable attention in the learning-based…

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This paper proposes a parallel numerical algorithm to simulate the flow and the transport in a discrete fracture network taking into account the mass exchanges with the surrounding matrix. The discretization of the Darcy fluxes is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Feng Xing , Roland Masson , Simon Lopez

To extend prevailing scaling limits when solving time-dependent partial differential equations, the parallel full approximation scheme in space and time (PFASST) has been shown to be a promising parallel-in-time integrator. Similar to a…

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This paper details how to parameterize the posterior distribution of state-space systems to generate improved optimization problems for system identification using variational inference. Three different parameterizations of the assumed…

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Mapping is essential in robotics and autonomous systems because it provides the spatial foundation for path planning. Efficient mapping enables planning algorithms to generate reliable paths while ensuring safety and adapting in real time…

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In this paper we consider filtering and smoothing of partially observed chaotic dynamical systems that are discretely observed, with an additive Gaussian noise in the observation. These models are found in a wide variety of real…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-27 Daniel Paulin , Ajay Jasra , Dan Crisan , Alexandros Beskos

The high cost of sequential time integration is one major constraint that limits the speedup of a time-parallel algorithm like the Parareal algorithm due to the difficulty of coarsening time steps in a stiff numerical problem. To address…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Weifan Liu

This paper proposes a parallel optimization algorithm for cooperative automation of large-scale connected vehicles. The task of cooperative automation is formulated as a centralized optimization problem taking the whole decision space of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Zhitao Wang , Yang Zheng , Shengbo Eben Li , Keyou You , Keqiang Li

The Bayesian inversion method demonstrates significant potential for solving inverse problems, enabling both point estimation and uncertainty quantification (UQ). However, Bayesian maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation may become unstable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Ruibiao Song , Liying Zhang

We consider the inverse problem of recovering an unknown functional parameter $u$ in a separable Banach space, from a noisy observation $y$ of its image through a known possibly non-linear ill-posed map ${\mathcal G}$. The data $y$ is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Sergios Agapiou , Martin Burger , Masoumeh Dashti , Tapio Helin

This paper is concerned with the problem of exact MAP inference in general higher-order graphical models by means of a traditional linear programming relaxation approach. In fact, the proof that we have developed in this paper is a rather…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Ikhlef Bechar

We present a data-parallel software package for fitting Gaussian Approximation Potentials (GAPs) on multiple nodes using the ScaLAPACK library with MPI and OpenMP. Until now the maximum training set size for GAP models has been limited by…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-14 Sascha Klawohn , James R. Kermode , Albert P. Bartók

In Bayesian inference, the maximum a posteriori (MAP) problem combines the most probable explanation (MPE) and marginalization (MAR) problems. The counterpart in propositional logic is the exist-random stochastic satisfiability (ER-SSAT)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Vu H. N. Phan , Moshe Y. Vardi

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference in discrete-valued Markov random fields is a fundamental problem in machine learning that involves identifying the most likely configuration of random variables given a distribution. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jonathan N. Lee , Aldo Pacchiano , Peter Bartlett , Michael I. Jordan

We investigate the parallel performance of Parallel Spectral Deferred corrections, a numerical approach that provides small-scale parallelism for the numerical solution of initial value problems. The scheme is applied to the shallow-water…

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We consider a control-constrained optimal control problem subject to time-harmonic Maxwell's equations; the control variable belongs to a finite-dimensional set and enters the state equation as a coefficient. We derive existence of optimal…

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