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20172021
most citedLearning Constitutive Relations from Indirect Observations Using Deep Neural Networks

182 citations · 616 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.geo-ph2021★ 1 cited

Autonomous Inversion of In Situ Deformation Measurement Data for CO2 Storage Decision Support

Jeff Burghardt, Ting Bao, Kailai Xu +2

Current methods of estimating the change in stress caused by injecting fluid into subsurface formations require choosing the type of constitutive model and the model parameters bas…

math.NA2021

Trust Region Method for Coupled Systems of PDE Solvers and Deep Neural Networks

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

Physics-informed machine learning and inverse modeling require the solution of ill-conditioned non-convex optimization problems. First-order methods, such as SGD and ADAM, and quas…

physics.geo-ph2020★ 16 cited

Integrating Deep Neural Networks with Full-waveform Inversion: Reparametrization, Regularization, and Uncertainty Quantification

Weiqiang Zhu, Kailai Xu, Eric Darve +2

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an accurate imaging approach for modeling velocity structure by minimizing the misfit between recorded and predicted seismic waveforms. However, th…

math.NA2020★ 18 cited

ADCME: Learning Spatially-varying Physical Fields using Deep Neural Networks

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

ADCME is a novel computational framework to solve inverse problems involving physical simulations and deep neural networks (DNNs). This paper benchmarks its capability to learn spa…

cs.DC2020★ 5 cited

Distributed Machine Learning for Computational Engineering using MPI

Kailai Xu, Weiqiang Zhu, Eric Darve

We propose a framework for training neural networks that are coupled with partial differential equations (PDEs) in a parallel computing environment. Unlike most distributed computi…

math.NA2020★ 9 cited

Solving Inverse Problems in Steady-State Navier-Stokes Equations using Deep Neural Networks

Tiffany Fan, Kailai Xu, Jay Pathak +1

Inverse problems in fluid dynamics are ubiquitous in science and engineering, with applications ranging from electronic cooling system design to ocean modeling. We propose a genera…

math.NA2020★ 17 cited

Inverse Modeling of Viscoelasticity Materials using Physics Constrained Learning

Kailai Xu, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky, Jeff Burghardt +1

We propose a novel approach to model viscoelasticity materials using neural networks, which capture rate-dependent and nonlinear constitutive relations. However, inputs and outputs…

math.NA2020★ 181 cited

Learning Constitutive Relations using Symmetric Positive Definite Neural Networks

Kailai Xu, Daniel Z. Huang, Eric Darve

We present the Cholesky-factored symmetric positive definite neural network (SPD-NN) for modeling constitutive relations in dynamical equations. Instead of directly predicting the…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 106 cited

A General Approach to Seismic Inversion with Automatic Differentiation

Weiqiang Zhu, Kailai Xu, Eric Darve +1

Imaging Earth structure or seismic sources from seismic data involves minimizing a target misfit function, and is commonly solved through gradient-based optimization. The adjoint-s…

math.NA2020★ 22 cited

Physics Constrained Learning for Data-driven Inverse Modeling from Sparse Observations

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

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 eq…

math.NA2019★ 2 cited

Learning Hidden Dynamics using Intelligent Automatic Differentiation

Kailai Xu, Dongzhuo Li, Eric Darve +1

Many engineering problems involve learning hidden dynamics from indirect observations, where the physical processes are described by systems of partial differential equations (PDE)…

physics.geo-ph2019★ 3 cited

Coupled Time-lapse Full Waveform Inversion for Subsurface Flow Problems using Intrusive Automatic Differentiation

Dongzhuo Li, Kailai Xu, Jerry M. Harris +1

We describe a novel framework for estimating subsurface properties, such as rock permeability and porosity, from time-lapse observed seismic data by coupling full-waveform inversio…

math.NA2019★ 2 cited

Adversarial Numerical Analysis for Inverse Problems

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

Many scientific and engineering applications are formulated as inverse problems associated with stochastic models. In such cases the unknown quantities are distributions. The appli…

math.NA2019★ 182 cited

Learning Constitutive Relations from Indirect Observations Using Deep Neural Networks

Daniel Z. Huang, Kailai Xu, Charbel Farhat +1

We present a new approach for predictive modeling and its uncertainty quantification for mechanical systems, where coarse-grained models such as constitutive relations are derived…

math.NA2019★ 32 cited

The Neural Network Approach to Inverse Problems in Differential Equations

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

We proposed a framework for solving inverse problems in differential equations based on neural networks and automatic differentiation. Neural networks are used to approximate hidde…

math.NA2018★ 8 cited

Spectral Method for the Fractional Laplacian in 2D and 3D

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

A spectral method is considered for approximating the fractional Laplacian and solving the fractional Poisson problem in 2D and 3D unit balls. The method is based on the explicit f…

math.NA2018★ 6 cited

Efficient Numerical Method for Models Driven by Lévy Process via Hierarchical Matrices

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

Modeling via fractional partial differential equations or a Lévy process has been an active area of research and has many applications. However, the lack of efficient numerical com…

stat.ML2018★ 5 cited

Calibrating Multivariate Lévy Processes with Neural Networks

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

Calibrating a Lévy process usually requires characterizing its jump distribution. Traditionally this problem can be solved with nonparametric estimation using the empirical charact…

math.NA2018★ 1 cited

Isogeometric Collocation Method for the Fractional Laplacian in the 2D Bounded Domain

Kailai Xu, Eric Darve

We consider the isogeometric analysis for fractional PDEs involving the fractional Laplacian in two dimensions. An isogeometric collocation method is developed to discretize the fr…

math.OC2017

A Derandomized Algorithm for RP-ADMM with Symmetric Gauss-Seidel Method

Jinchao Xu, Kailai Xu, Yinyu Ye

For multi-block alternating direction method of multipliers(ADMM), where the objective function can be decomposed into multiple block components, we show that with block symmetric…