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Raising the order of the multipole expansion is a feasible approach for improving the accuracy of the treecode algorithm. However, a uniform order for the expansion would result in the inefficiency of the implementation, especially when the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Zixuan Cui , Lei Yang

Controller tuning based on black-box optimization allows to automatically tune performance-critical parameters w.r.t. mostly arbitrary high-level closed-loop control objectives. However, a comprehensive benchmark of different black-box…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 David Stenger , Dirk Abel

Collision detection plays an important role in simulation, control, and learning for robotic systems. However, no existing method is differentiable with respect to the configurations of the objects, greatly limiting the sort of algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Kevin Tracy , Taylor A. Howell , Zachary Manchester

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown great promise in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, vanilla PINNs often face challenges when solving complex PDEs, especially those involving multi-scale behaviors or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shengzhu Shi , Yao Li , Zhichang Guo , Boying Wu , Yang Zhao

We prove that adaptive strategies offer no advantage over non-adaptive ones for learning and testing Pauli channels using entangled inputs. This key observation allows us to characterize the query complexity for several fundamental tasks by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Xuan Du Trinh , Nengkun Yu

Black-box complexity theory provides lower bounds for the runtime of black-box optimizers like evolutionary algorithms and serves as an inspiration for the design of new genetic algorithms. Several black-box models covering different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Carola Doerr , Johannes Lengler

Generating adversarial examples in a black-box setting retains a significant challenge with vast practical application prospects. In particular, existing black-box attacks suffer from the need for excessive queries, as it is non-trivial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Jie Li , Rongrong Ji , Hong Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Bineng Zhong , Cheng Deng , Qi Tian

We initiate a systematic study of ${\sf TFZPP}$, the class of total ${\sf NP}$ search problems solvable by polynomial time randomized algorithms. ${\sf TFZPP}$ contains a variety of important search problems such as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Noah Fleming , Stefan Grosser , Siddhartha Jain , Jiawei Li , Hanlin Ren , Morgan Shirley , Weiqiang Yuan

Deep neural networks (DNN) have been used to model nonlinear relations between physical quantities. Those DNNs are embedded in physical systems described by partial differential equations (PDE) and trained by minimizing a loss function that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Kailai Xu , Eric Darve

Dynamic Optimization Problems (DOPs) are challenging to address due to their complex nature, i.e., dynamic environment variation. Evolutionary Computation methods are generally advantaged in solving DOPs since they resemble dynamic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zijian Gao , Yuanting Zhong , Zeyuan Ma , Yue-Jiao Gong , Hongshu Guo

We consider the problem of optimizing a grey-box objective function, i.e., nested function composed of both black-box and white-box functions. A general formulation for such grey-box problems is given, which covers the existing grey-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Wenjie Xu , Yuning Jiang , Bratislav Svetozarevic , Colin N. Jones

We propose a novel weakly supervised learning segmentation based on several global constraints derived from box annotations. Particularly, we leverage a classical tightness prior to a deep learning setting via imposing a set of constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Hoel Kervadec , Jose Dolz , Shanshan Wang , Eric Granger , Ismail Ben Ayed

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a flexible framework for solving partial differential equations, but their performance on interface problems remains challenging because continuity and flux conditions are typically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Seung Whan Chung , Stephen T. Castonguay , Sumanta Roy , Michael S. Penwarden , Yucheng Fu , Pratanu Roy

This paper employs a powerful argument, called an algorithmic argument, to prove lower bounds of the quantum query complexity of a multiple-block ordered search problem in which, given a block number i, we are to find a location of a target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Harumichi Nishimura , Tomoyuki Yamakami

The objective of this article is to formalize the definition of NP problems. We construct a mathematical model of discrete problems as independence systems with weighted elements. We introduce two auxiliary sets that characterize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

Deep learning method is of great importance in solving partial differential equations. In this paper, inspired by the failure-informed idea proposed by Gao et.al. (SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 45(4)(2023)) and as an improvement, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jingyong Ying , Yaqi Xie , Jiao Li , Hongqiao Wang

Solving for adversarial examples with projected gradient descent has been demonstrated to be highly effective in fooling the neural network based classifiers. However, in the black-box setting, the attacker is limited only to the query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Seungyong Moon , Gaon An , Hyun Oh Song

We provide a polynomial time reduction from Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism design to Bayesian algorithm design for welfare maximization problems. Unlike prior results, our reduction achieves exact incentive compatibility for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Shaddin Dughmi , Jason Hartline , Robert Kleinberg , Rad Niazadeh

Weighted counting problems are a natural generalization of counting problems where a weight is associated with every computational path of polynomial-time non-deterministic Turing machines and the goal is to compute the sum of the weights…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Cassio P. de Campos , Georgios Stamoulis , Dennis Weyland

Kernelization---a mathematical key concept for provably effective polynomial-time preprocessing of NP-hard problems---plays a central role in parameterized complexity and has triggered an extensive line of research. This is in part due to a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Henning Fernau , Till Fluschnik , Danny Hermelin , Andreas Krebs , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier