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Recent progress in PDE constrained optimization on shape manifolds is based on the Hadamard form of shape derivatives, i.e., in the form of integrals at the boundary of the shape under investigation, as well as on intrinsic shape metrics.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Volker Schulz , Martin Siebenborn , Kathrin Welker

In this paper we present a framework for automated shape differentiation in the finite element software NGSolve. Our approach combines the mathematical Lagrangian approach for differentiating PDE constrained shape functions with the…

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We study a variant of the median problem for a collection of point sets in high dimensions. This generalizes the geometric median as well as the (probabilistic) smallest enclosing ball (pSEB) problems. Our main objective and motivation is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Amer Krivošija , Alexander Munteanu

Segmenting images of low quality or with missing data is a challenging problem. Integrating statistical prior information about the shapes to be segmented can improve the segmentation results significantly. Most shape-based segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Ertunc Erdil , Sinan Yıldırım , Müjdat Çetin , Tolga Taşdizen

The numerical solution methods for partial differential equation (PDE) solution allow obtaining a discrete field that converges towards the solution if the method is applied to the correct problem. Nevertheless, the numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Alexander Hvatov

Implicit sampling is a weighted sampling method that is used in data assimilation, where one sequentially updates estimates of the state of a stochastic model based on a stream of noisy or incomplete data. Here we describe how to use…

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Optimal decision-making under partial observability requires agents to balance reducing uncertainty (exploration) against pursuing immediate objectives (exploitation). In this paper, we introduce a novel policy optimization framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hany Abdulsamad , Sahel Iqbal , Simo Särkkä

An unsupervised learning approach based on expectation maximization is proposed to obtain the parameters of a soft decision forward error correction decoding metric for probabilistic shaping. The algorithm depends only on the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Fabian Steiner , Patrick Schulte , Georg Böcherer

We present a new method for stochastic shape optimisation of engineering structures. The method generalises an existing deterministic scheme, in which the structure is represented and evolved by a level-set method coupled with mathematical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Lester O. Hedges , H. Alicia Kim , Robert L. Jack

Recent advances in implicit neural representations show great promise when it comes to generating numerical solutions to partial differential equations. Compared to conventional alternatives, such representations employ parameterized neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jonas Zehnder , Yue Li , Stelian Coros , Bernhard Thomaszewski

Developing efficient numerical algorithms for the solution of high dimensional random Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) has been a challenging task due to the well-known curse of dimensionality. We present a new solution framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Mohammad Amin Nabian , Hadi Meidani

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

This work deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas

This paper proposes a mesh-free computational framework and machine learning theory for solving elliptic PDEs on unknown manifolds, identified with point clouds, based on diffusion maps (DM) and deep learning. The PDE solver is formulated…

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We propose a neural network-based meta-learning method to efficiently solve partial differential equation (PDE) problems. The proposed method is designed to meta-learn how to solve a wide variety of PDE problems, and uses the knowledge for…

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Enhancing neural networks with knowledge of physical equations has become an efficient way of solving various physics problems, from fluid flow to electromagnetism. Graph neural networks show promise in accurately representing irregularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mike Y. Michelis , Robert K. Katzschmann

This paper solves a new class of optimization problems under uncertainty, called Probable Event Constrained Optimization (PECO), which optimizes an objective function of decision variables and subjects to a set of Probable Event Constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Qifeng Li

Meshless methods are commonly used to determine numerical solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) for problems involving free surfaces and/or complex geometries, approximating spatial derivatives at collocation points via local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 H. Broadley , J. R. C. King , S. J. Lind

Solving inverse and optimization problems over solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex spatial domains is a long-standing challenge. Here we introduce a method that parameterizes the solution using spectral…

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