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The accuracy of finite element solutions is closely tied to the mesh quality. In particular, geometrically nonlinear problems involving large and strongly localized deformations often result in prohibitively large element distortions. In…

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We propose a method that morphs high-orger meshes such that their boundaries and interfaces coincide/align with implicitly defined geometries. Our focus is particularly on the case when the target surface is prescribed as the zero…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jorge-Luis Barrera , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov

The same type of objects in different images may vary in their shapes because of rigid and non-rigid shape deformations, occluding foreground as well as cluttered background. The problem concerned in this work is the shape extraction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Junyan Wang , Kap-Luk Chan

Block majorization-minimization (BMM) is a simple iterative algorithm for constrained nonconvex optimization that sequentially minimizes majorizing surrogates of the objective function in each block while the others are held fixed. BMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Hanbaek Lyu , Yuchen Li

This thesis is devoted to the Differential Geometry of curves and surfaces along with applications in Quantum Mechanics. In the 1st part we introduce the well known Frenet frame. Later, we show that the curvature function is a lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Luiz C. B. da Silva

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

We present a numerical method to efficiently solve optimization problems governed by large-scale nonlinear systems of equations, including discretized partial differential equations, using projection-based reduced-order models accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Tianshu Wen , Matthew J. Zahr

Construction of optimal deformations is one of the long standing problems of computational mathematics. We consider the problem of computing quasi-isometric deformations with minimal possible quasi-isometry constant (global estimate for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Vladimir Garanzha , Igor Kaporin , Liudmila Kudryavtseva , François Protais , David Desobry , Dmitry Sokolov

We propose and analyze an energy-stable fully discrete parametric approximation for Willmore flow of hypersurfaces in two and three space dimensions. We allow for the presence of spontaneous curvature effects and for open surfaces with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

We propose a primal-dual smoothing framework for finding a near-stationary point of a class of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems with max-structure. We analyze the primal and dual gradient complexities of the framework via two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Renbo Zhao

Existing pretrained models for 3D mesh generation often suffer from data biases and produce low-quality results, while global reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely on object-level rewards that struggle to capture local structure details.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jian Liu , Jing Xu , Song Guo , Jing Li , Jingfeng Guo , Jiaao Yu , Haohan Weng , Biwen Lei , Xianghui Yang , Zhuo Chen , Fangqi Zhu , Tao Han , Chunchao Guo

The Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) beamforming technique is widely applied in array systems to mitigate interference. However, applying MVDR to large arrays is computationally challenging; its computational complexity…

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This article presents a new high-order accurate algorithm for finding a particular solution to a linear, constant-coefficient partial differential equation (PDE) by means of a convolution of the volumetric source function with the Green's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Thomas G. Anderson , Hai Zhu , Shravan Veerapaneni

This work aims to minimize a continuously differentiable convex function with Lipschitz continuous gradient under linear equality constraints. The proposed inertial algorithm results from the discretization of the second-order primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

An algorithm framework is proposed for minimizing nonsmooth functions. The framework is variable-metric in that, in each iteration, a step is computed using a symmetric positive definite matrix whose value is updated as in a quasi-Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

We propose a general algorithm for non-conforming adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of unstructured meshes in high-order finite element codes. Our focus is on h-refinement with a fixed polynomial order. The algorithm handles triangular,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jakub Červený , Veselin Dobrev , Tzanio Kolev

We present MatDecompSDF, a novel framework for recovering high-fidelity 3D shapes and decomposing their physically-based material properties from multi-view images. The core challenge of inverse rendering lies in the ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chengyu Wang , Isabella Bennett , Henry Scott , Liang Zhang , Mei Chen , Hao Li , Rui Zhao

We compare surface metrics for shape optimization problems with constraints, consisting mainly of partial differential equations (PDE), from a computational point of view. In particular, classical Laplace-Beltrami type based metrics are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Volker Schulz , Martin Siebenborn

We propose a three-tier machine learning framework based on the next-generation Equation-Free algorithm for learning the spatio-temporal dynamics of mass-constrained complex systems with hidden states, whose dynamics can in principle be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Gianmaria Viola , Alessandro Della Pia , Lucia Russo , Ioannis Kevrekidis , Constantinos Siettos