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This paper investigates the optimal control problem for a class of parabolic equations where the diffusion coefficient is influenced by a control function acting nonlocally. Specifically, we consider the optimization of a cost functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Stefana-Lucia Anita , Luca Di Persio

The success of deep learning, a brain-inspired form of AI, has sparked interest in understanding how the brain could similarly learn across multiple layers of neurons. However, the majority of biologically-plausible learning algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Alexander Meulemans , Francesco S. Carzaniga , Johan A. K. Suykens , João Sacramento , Benjamin F. Grewe

In reinforcement learning, an agent interacts sequentially with an environment to maximize a reward, receiving only partial, probabilistic feedback. This creates a fundamental exploration-exploitation trade-off: the agent must explore to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Josep Lumbreras , Ruo Cheng Huang , Yanglin Hu , Marco Fanizza , Mile Gu

In this letter, motivated by the question that whether the empirical fitting of data by neural network can yield the same structure of physical laws, we apply the neural network to a simple quantum mechanical two-body scattering problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yadong Wu , Pengfei Zhang , Huitao Shen , Hui Zhai

We consider the problem of robotic planning under uncertainty in this paper. This problem may be posed as a stochastic optimal control problem, a solution to which is fundamentally intractable owing to the infamous "curse of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-19 Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed , Suman Chakravorty , Dylan A. Shell

We consider a general optimal control problem in the setting of gradient flows. Two approximations of the problem are presented, both relying on the variational reformulation of gradient-flow dynamics via the Weighted-Energy-Dissipation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Takeshi Fukao , Ulisse Stefanelli , Riccardo Voso

Equilibrium systems are a powerful way to express neural computations. As special cases, they include models of great current interest in both neuroscience and machine learning, such as deep neural networks, equilibrium recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Alexander Meulemans , Nicolas Zucchet , Seijin Kobayashi , Johannes von Oswald , João Sacramento

Despite considerable theoretical progress in the training of neural networks viewed as a multi-agent system of neurons, particularly concerning biological plausibility and decentralized training, their applicability to real-world problems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Arshia Soltani Moakhar , Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Hossein Mirzaei , Mohammad Taghi Manzuri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Many problems in geometric optics or convex geometry can be recast as optimal transport problems: this includes the far-field reflector problem, Alexandrov's curvature prescription problem, etc. A popular way to solve these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jun Kitagawa , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert

The study of the fundamental limits of information systems is a central theme in information theory. Both the traditional analytical approach and the recently proposed computational approach have significant limitations, where the former is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wenjing Chen , Chao Tian

Although backpropagation is widely accepted as a training algorithm for artificial neural networks, researchers are always looking for inspiration from the brain to find ways with potentially better performance. Forward-Forward is a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hossein Aghagolzadeh , Mehdi Ezoji

We propose a new approach to linear ill-posed inverse problems. Our algorithm alternates between enforcing two constraints: the measurements and the statistical correlation structure in some transformed space. We use a non-linear multiscale…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ivan Dokmanić , Joan Bruna , Stéphane Mallat , Maarten de Hoop

Backpropagation, a foundational algorithm for training artificial neural networks, predominates in contemporary deep learning. Although highly successful, it is widely considered biologically implausible, because it relies on precise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Li Ji-An , Marcus K. Benna

Finding methods for making generalizable predictions is a fundamental problem of machine learning. By looking into similarities between the prediction problem for unknown data and the lossless compression we have found an approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Michael Tetelman

This work formulates the machine learning mechanism as a bi-level optimization problem. The inner level optimization loop entails minimizing a properly chosen loss function evaluated on the training data. This is nothing but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Maziar Raissi

We consider the geometric optics problem of finding a system of two reflectors that transform a spherical wavefront into a beam of parallel rays with prescribed intensity distribution. Using techniques from optimal transportation theory, it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-08 Tilmann Glimm , Nick Henscheid

It is widely believed that the backpropagation algorithm is essential for learning good feature detectors in early layers of artificial neural networks, so that these detectors are useful for the task performed by the higher layers of that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Dmitry Krotov , John Hopfield

We propose a novel approach to solving input- and state-constrained parametric mixed-integer optimal control problems using Differentiable Predictive Control (DPC). Our approach follows the differentiable programming paradigm by learning an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Ján Boldocký , Shahriar Dadras Javan , Martin Gulan , Martin Mönnigmann , Ján Drgoňa

With the unprecedented growth of signal processing and machine learning application domains, there has been a tremendous expansion of interest in distributed optimization methods to cope with the underlying large-scale problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Hansi Abeynanda , Chathuranga Weeraddana , G. H. J. Lanel , Carlo Fischione

We consider the inverse acoustic obstacle problem for sound-soft star-shaped obstacles in two dimensions wherein the boundary of the obstacle is determined from measurements of the scattered field at a collection of receivers outside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Mo Zhou , Jiequn Han , Manas Rachh , Carlos Borges