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The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a powerful modeling tool for predicting the behavior of soft robots. However, its use for control can be difficult for non-specialists of numerical computation: it requires an optimization of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Etienne Ménager , Tanguy Navez , Olivier Goury , Christian Duriez

We present a method whereby the finite element method is used to train physics-informed neural networks that are suitable for surrogate modeling. The method is based on a custom convolutional operation called stencil convolution which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Pranav Sunil , Ryan B. Sills

Accurate and efficient modeling of soft-tissue interactions is fundamental for advancing surgical simulation, surgical robotics, and model-based surgical automation. To achieve real-time latency, classical Finite Element Method (FEM)…

Foundation models for partial differential equations (PDEs) have emerged as powerful surrogates pre-trained on diverse physical systems, but adapting them to new downstream tasks remains challenging due to limited task-specific data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vlad Medvedev , Leon Armbruster , Christopher Straub , Georg Kruse , Andreas Rosskopf

The Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) is an extension of the Finite Element Method (FEM), where the standard finite element space is augmented with a space of non-polynomial functions, called the enrichment space. The functions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Kenan Kergrene , Ivo Babuška , Uday Banerjee

Since the seminal work of Idelsohn, O\~nate and Del-Pin (2004), the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) has relied on a Delaunay triangulation and the Alpha--Shape (AS) algorithm in the remeshing process. This approach guarantees a good…

The recently proposed soft finite element method (SoftFEM) reduces the stiffness (condition numbers), consequently improving the overall approximation accuracy. The method subtracts a least-square term that penalizes the gradient jumps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jipei Chen , Victor M. Calo , Quanling Deng

The increased availability of observation data from engineering systems in operation poses the question of how to incorporate this data into finite element models. To this end, we propose a novel statistical construction of the finite…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-25 Mark Girolami , Eky Febrianto , Ge Yin , Fehmi Cirak

Pre-trained vision models (PVMs) have demonstrated remarkable adaptability across a wide range of downstream vision tasks, showcasing exceptional performance. However, as these models scale to billions or even trillions of parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yi Xin , Jianjiang Yang , Siqi Luo , Yuntao Du , Qi Qin , Kangrui Cen , Yangfan He , Zhiwei Zhang , Bin Fu , Xiaokang Yang , Guangtao Zhai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Xiaohong Liu

In this paper, a peridynamics-based finite element method (Peri-FEM) is proposed for the quasi-static fracture analysis, which is of the consistent computational framework with the classical finite element method (FEM). First, the integral…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Fei Han , Zhibin Li

In many industries, including aerospace and defense, waveform analysis is commonly conducted to compute the resonance of physical objects, with the Finite Element Method (FEM) being the standard approach. The Finite Difference Method (FDM)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Juliette Florin

Partial differential equations play a fundamental role in the mathematical modelling of many processes and systems in physical, biological and other sciences. To simulate such processes and systems, the solutions of PDEs often need to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Tamara G. Grossmann , Urszula Julia Komorowska , Jonas Latz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper, we study a machine-learning-based solver for high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). Computing accurate solutions efficiently for such problems remains challenging because of the curse of dimensionality, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Phuoc-Toan Huynh , Feng Bao , Haizhao Yang , Ahmed Zytoon

Traditional sheet metal forming relies on time-consuming and expensive Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for design validation, a process that significantly prolongs design cycles. While surrogate models offer faster iteration, current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jiajie Luo , Mohamed Mohamed , Osama Hassan , Haosu Zhou , Yingxue Zhao , Haoran Li , Xinrun Li , Zhutao Shao , Yang Long , Nan Li , Jichun Li

This paper presents a physics-informed training framework for projection-based Reduced Order Models (ROMs). We extend the PROM-ANN architecture by complementing snapshot-based training with a FEM-based, discrete physics-informed residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 N. Sibuet , S. Ares de Parga , J. R. Bravo , R. Rossi

Since the earliest stages of human civilization, advances in technology have been tightly linked to our ability to understand and predict the mechanical behavior of materials. In recent years, this challenge has increasingly been framed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Francesco Regazzoni

We present a new Integrated Finite Element Neural Network framework (I-FENN), with the objective to accelerate the numerical solution of nonlinear computational mechanics problems. We leverage the swift predictive capability of neural…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Panos Pantidis , Mostafa E. Mobasher

The deployment of vision-language models remains constrained by substantial computational requirements. We present \textbf{FrEVL}, a framework exploring whether frozen pretrained embeddings can support effective vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Emmanuelle Bourigault , Pauline Bourigault

The accurate representation of numerous physical, chemical, and biological processes relies heavily on differential equations (DEs), particularly nonlinear differential equations (NDEs). While understanding these complex systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Mara Martinez , B. Veena S. N. Rao , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

Pretrained Foundation Models (PFMs) have transformed numerous applications by enabling efficient adaptation to customized tasks. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has emerged as a resource-efficient alternative to full fine-tuning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Baoquan Zhang , Guangning Xu , Michael. K. Ng