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Batch normalization (BN) is a popular and ubiquitous method in deep learning that has been shown to decrease training time and improve generalization performance of neural networks. Despite its success, BN is not theoretically well…

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Most methods for neural network verification focus on bounding the image, i.e., set of outputs for a given input set. This can be used to, for example, check the robustness of neural network predictions to bounded perturbations of an input.…

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Neural fields encode continuous multidimensional signals as neural networks, enabling diverse applications in computer vision, robotics, and geometry. While Adam is effective for stochastic optimization, it often requires long training…

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We introduce an approach for solving PDEs over manifolds using physics informed neural networks whose architecture aligns with spectral methods. The networks are trained to take in as input samples of an initial condition, a time stamp and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuval Zelig , Shai Dekel

Industrial design evaluation often relies on high-fidelity simulations of governing partial differential equations (PDEs). While accurate, these simulations are computationally expensive, making dense exploration of design spaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zhizhou Zhang , Youjia Wu , Kaixuan Zhang , Yanjia Wang

Although neural operators are widely used in data-driven physical simulations, their training remains computationally expensive. Recent advances address this issue via downstream learning, where a model pretrained on simpler problems is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mikhail Masliaev , Dmitry Gusarov , Ilya Markov , Alexander Hvatov

We propose a Pretrained Finite Element Method (PFEM),a physics driven framework that bridges the efficiency of neural operator learning with the accuracy and robustness of classical finite element methods (FEM). PFEM consists of a physics…

Almost all the state-of-the-art neural networks for computer vision tasks are trained by (1) pre-training on a large-scale dataset and (2) finetuning on the target dataset. This strategy helps reduce dependence on the target dataset and…

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Machine learning approaches have become popular for molecular modeling tasks, including molecular force fields and properties prediction. Traditional supervised learning methods suffer from scarcity of labeled data for particular tasks,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Xiang Gao , Weihao Gao , Wenzhi Xiao , Zhirui Wang , Chong Wang , Liang Xiang

Predictive coding (PC) is an influential theory in computational neuroscience, which argues that the cortex forms unsupervised world models by implementing a hierarchical process of prediction error minimization. PC networks (PCNs) are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Beren Millidge , Yuhang Song , Tommaso Salvatori , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rafal Bogacz

The (gradient-based) bilevel programming framework is widely used in hyperparameter optimization and has achieved excellent performance empirically. Previous theoretical work mainly focuses on its optimization properties, while leaving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Fan Bao , Guoqiang Wu , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

A class of preconditioners is introduced to enhance geometry optimisation and transition state search of molecular systems. We start from the Hessian of molecular mechanical terms, decompose it and retain only its positive definite part to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Letif Mones , Gabor Csanyi , Christoph Ortner

Forecasting physical signals in long time range is among the most challenging tasks in Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) research. To circumvent limitations of traditional solvers, many different Deep Learning methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Leon Migus , Julien Salomon , Patrick Gallinari

Methods for solving PDEs using neural networks have recently become a very important topic. We provide an a priori error analysis for such methods which is based on the $\mathcal{K}_1(\mathbb{D})$-norm of the solution. We show that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Qingguo Hong , Jonathan W. Siegel , Jinchao Xu

This paper addresses the training of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (neural ODEs), and in particular explores the interplay between numerical integration techniques, stability regions, step size, and initialization techniques. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Theodor Westny , Arman Mohammadi , Daniel Jung , Erik Frisk

Domain decomposition (DD) methods are widely used as preconditioner techniques. Their effectiveness relies on the choice of a locally constructed coarse space. Thus far, this construction was mostly achieved using non-assembled matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Hussam Al Daas , Pierre Jolivet

We perform a comprehensive numerical study of the effect of approximation-theoretical results for neural networks on practical learning problems in the context of numerical analysis. As the underlying model, we study the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Moritz Geist , Philipp Petersen , Mones Raslan , Reinhold Schneider , Gitta Kutyniok

We present a unified theoretical framework for analyzing the stability and consistency of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), grounded in operator coercivity, variational formulations, and non-asymptotic perturbation theory. PINNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ronald Katende

In training neural networks, it is common practice to use partial gradients computed over batches, mostly very small subsets of the training set. This approach is motivated by the argument that such a partial gradient is close to the true…

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Folding grid value vectors of size $2^L$ into $L$th order tensors of mode sizes $2\times \cdots\times 2$, combined with low-rank representation in the tensor train format, has been shown to lead to highly efficient approximations for…

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