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Adaptive methods such as Adam and RMSProp are widely used in deep learning but are not well understood. In this paper, we seek a crisp, clean and precise characterization of their behavior in nonconvex settings. To this end, we first…

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We introduce a fast direct solver for variable-coefficient elliptic partial differential equations on surfaces based on the hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov method. The method takes as input an unstructured, high-order quadrilateral mesh of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Daniel Fortunato

In a previous paper (Lathouwers and Perk\'o, 2019) we have developed an efficient angular multigrid preconditioner for the Boltzmann transport equation with forward-peaked scatter modeled by the Fokker-Planck approximation. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Danny Lathouwers , Zoltan Perko

We propose a differentiable sphere tracing algorithm to bridge the gap between inverse graphics methods and the recently proposed deep learning based implicit signed distance function. Due to the nature of the implicit function, the…

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Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

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Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a dimensionality reduction tool used for information analysis, data visualization and manifold learning. Most MDS procedures embed data points in low-dimensional Euclidean (flat) domains, such that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Gil Shamai , Michael Zibulevsky , Ron Kimmel

We consider anisotropic heat flow with extreme anisotropy, as arises in magnetized plasmas for fusion applications. Such problems pose significant challenges in both obtaining an accurate approximation as well in the construction of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Maria Vasilyeva , Golo A. Wimmer , Ben S. Southworth

In the era of real-time data, traditional methods often struggle to keep pace with the dynamic nature of streaming environments. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid framework where in (i) stage-I follows a traditional approach where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Vivek Yelleti , Ch Priyanka

We introduce generalised finite difference methods for solving fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. Methods are based on piecewise Cartesian meshes augmented by additional points along the boundary. This allows for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Brittany D. Froese , Tiago Salvador

This work presents a variational physics-informed deep learning framework for phase-field modelling of brittle crack propagation in anisotropic media. Previous Deep Ritz Method (DRM) approaches have focused on second-order, isotropic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 N. Plungė , P. Brommer , R. S. Edwards , E. G. Kakouris

This work extends a pressure-gradient sensor for boundary-layer separation originally developed for the $k-\omega$ shear-stress transport Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model (Griffin et al., 2025, J. Turb.) to the Improved Delayed…

The demand for inverse design is increasing as the ability to fabricate sub-10 nm features expands the design space by orders of magnitude. Efficient inverse design benefits from differentiable models of light-structure interaction. While…

Solving electromagnetic inverse scattering problems (ISPs) is challenging due to the intrinsic nonlinearity, ill-posedness, and expensive computational cost. Recently, deep neural network (DNN) techniques have been successfully applied on…

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The structure of homogeneous turbulent shear flow is studied using data generated by Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and a linear analysis for both compressible and incompressible cases. At large values of the mean shear rate, the Rapid…

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Efficiently and accurately simulating partial differential equations (PDEs) in and around arbitrarily defined geometries, especially with high levels of adaptivity, has significant implications for different application domains. A key…

Differentiable simulation of soft bodies is a foundation for system identification, trajectory optimization, and Real2Sim transfer. Yet, existing methods such as the differentiable Projective Dynamics (DiffPD) struggle when faced with…

Spectral retrieval techniques are currently our best tool to interpret the observed exoplanet atmospheric data. Said techniques retrieve the optimal atmospheric components and parameters by identifying the best fit to an observed…

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Manifolds discovered by machine learning models provide a compact representation of the underlying data. Geodesics on these manifolds define locally length-minimising curves and provide a notion of distance, which are key for reduced-order…

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We present a new exact algorithm for the Steiner tree problem in edge-weighted graphs. Our algorithm improves the classical dynamic programming approach by Dreyfus and Wagner. We achieve a significantly better practical performance via…

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