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We derive necessary conditions for locally optimal shapes of a design problem governed by a non-smooth PDE. The main particularity of the state system is the lack of differentiability of the nonlinearity. We work in the framework of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Livia Betz

Given a random sample of points from some unknown distribution, we propose a new data-driven method for estimating its probability support $S$. Under the mild assumption that $S$ is $r$-convex, the smallest $r$-convex set which contains the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Alberto Rodríguez-Casal , Paula Saavedra-Nieves

We develop a kernel-based solver for path-dependent PDEs (PPDEs) along with a convergence theory. Our numerical scheme leverages signature kernels, a recently introduced class of kernels on path-space. Specifically, we solve an optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alexandre Pannier , Cristopher Salvi

An algorithm is proposed that enables the imposition of shape constraints on regression curves, without requiring the constraints to be written as closed-form expressions, nor assuming the functional form of the loss function. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-08 Kenyon Ng , Berwin A. Turlach , Kevin Murray

We introduce a guided stochastic sampling method that augments sampling from diffusion models with physics-based guidance derived from partial differential equation (PDE) residuals and observational constraints, ensuring generated samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Andrew Millard , Fredrik Lindsten , Zheng Zhao

Shape optimization has been playing an important role in a large variety of engineering applications. Existing shape optimization methods are generally mesh-dependent and therefore encounter challenges due to mesh deformation. To overcome…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Xili Wang , Pengfei Yin , Bo Zhang , Chao Yang

A unified method for extracting geometric shape features from binary image data using a steady state partial differential equation (PDE) system as a boundary value problem is presented in this paper. The PDE and functions are formulated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Takayuki Yamada

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lilian Welschinger , Yilin Liu , Zican Wang , Niloy Mitra

We present a general numerical approach to shape optimization with state constraints for 2-dimensional geometries, without relaxing the constraints. To do this we reformulate the problem on a fixed reference domain using a conformal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Christian Leithäuser , René Pinnau , Robert Feßler

We present a general shape optimisation framework based on the method of mappings in the $W^{1,\infty}$ topology. We propose steepest descent and Newton-like minimisation algorithms for the numerical solution of the respective shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Klaus Deckelnick , Philip J. Herbert , Michael Hinze

Ceramic is a material frequently used in industry because of its favorable properties. Common approaches in shape optimization for ceramic structures aim to minimize the tensile stress acting on the component, as it is the main driver for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Matthias Bolten , Hanno Gottschalk , Camilla Hahn , Mohamed Saadi

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

Particle-based shape modeling (PSM) is a popular approach to automatically quantify shape variability in populations of anatomies. The PSM family of methods employs optimization to automatically populate a dense set of corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hong Xu , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Probabilistic modeling provides the capability to represent and manipulate uncertainty in data, models, predictions and decisions. We are concerned with the problem of learning probabilistic models of dynamical systems from measured data.…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-14 Thomas B. Schön , Andreas Svensson , Lawrence Murray , Fredrik Lindsten

We consider the optimal control of a PDE with random source term subject to probabilistic or almost sure state constraints. In the main theoretical result, we provide an exact formula for the Clarke subdifferential of the probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Caroline Geiersbach , René Henrion , Pedro Pérez-Aros

This work develops an algorithm for PDE-constrained shape optimization based on Lipschitz transformations. Building on previous work in this field, the $p$-Laplace operator is utilized to approximate a descent method for Lipschitz shapes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Peter Marvin Müller , Jose Pinzon , Thomas Rung , Martin Siebenborn

We investigate an optimization problem governed by an elliptic partial differential equation with uncertain parameters. We introduce a robust optimization framework that accounts for uncertain model parameters. The resulting non-linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Alessandro Alla , Michael Hinze , Philip Kolvenbach , Oliver Lass , Stefan Ulbrich

In this work, we investigate a particular class of shape optimization problems under uncertainties on the input parameters. More precisely, we are interested in the minimization of the expectation of a quadratic objective in a situation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-01 M. Dambrine , C. Dapogny , H. Harbrecht

We present a novel framework for PDE-constrained $r$-adaptivity of high-order meshes. The proposed method formulates mesh movement as an optimization problem, with an objective function defined as a convex combination of a mesh quality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Tzanio Kolev , Boyan Lazarov , Ketan Mittal , Mathias Schmidt , Vladimir Tomov

Coupled 3D-1D problems arise in many practical applications, in an attempt to reduce the computational burden in simulations where cylindrical inclusions with a small section are embedded in a much larger domain. Nonetheless the resolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Stefano Berrone , Denise Grappein , Stefano Scialò , Fabio Vicini