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20162026
most citedOptimal design of acoustic metamaterial cloaks under uncertainty

64 citations · 299 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

math.NA2026

RBF-Generated Finite Difference Method Coupled with Quadratic Programming for Solving PDEs on Surfaces with Derivative Boundary Conditions

Peng Chen, Shixiao Willing Jiang, Rongji Li +1

Derivative boundary conditions introduce challenges for mesh-free discretizations of PDEs on surfaces, especially when the domain is represented by randomly sampled point clouds. T…

math.OC2023★ 9 cited

Efficient PDE-Constrained optimization under high-dimensional uncertainty using derivative-informed neural operators

Dingcheng Luo, Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry, Peng Chen +1

We propose a novel machine learning framework for solving optimization problems governed by large-scale partial differential equations (PDEs) with high-dimensional random parameter…

math.NA2023

A Greedy Sensor Selection Algorithm for Hyperparameterized Linear Bayesian Inverse Problems

Nicole Aretz, Peng Chen, Denise Degen +1

We consider optimal sensor placement for a family of linear Bayesian inverse problems characterized by a deterministic hyper-parameter. The hyper-parameter describes distinct confi…

math.NA2022★ 8 cited

Derivative-Informed Neural Operator: An Efficient Framework for High-Dimensional Parametric Derivative Learning

Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry, Peng Chen, Umberto Villa +1

We propose derivative-informed neural operators (DINOs), a general family of neural networks to approximate operators as infinite-dimensional mappings from input function spaces to…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Optimal Neural Network Approximation of Wasserstein Gradient Direction via Convex Optimization

Yifei Wang, Peng Chen, Mert Pilanci +1

The computation of Wasserstein gradient direction is essential for posterior sampling problems and scientific computing. The approximation of the Wasserstein gradient with finite s…

math.NA2022

Large-scale Bayesian optimal experimental design with derivative-informed projected neural network

Keyi Wu, Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry, Peng Chen +1

We address the solution of large-scale Bayesian optimal experimental design (OED) problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) with infinite-dimensional parameter fie…

math.OC2021

Performance Bounds for PDE-Constrained Optimization under Uncertainty

Peng Chen, Johannes O. Royset

Computational approaches to PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty may involve finite-dimensional approximations of control and state spaces, sample average approximations…

cs.LG2021

Projected Wasserstein gradient descent for high-dimensional Bayesian inference

Yifei Wang, Peng Chen, Wuchen Li

We propose a projected Wasserstein gradient descent method (pWGD) for high-dimensional Bayesian inference problems. The underlying density function of a particle system of WGD is a…

math.OC2021★ 1 cited

An efficient method for goal-oriented linear Bayesian optimal experimental design: Application to optimal sensor placemen

Keyi Wu, Peng Chen, Omar Ghattas

Optimal experimental design (OED) plays an important role in the problem of identifying uncertainty with limited experimental data. In many applications, we seek to minimize the un…

math.NA2020

A sequential sensor selection strategy for hyper-parameterized linear Bayesian inverse problems

Nicole Aretz-Nellesen, Peng Chen, Martin A. Grepl +1

We consider optimal sensor placement for hyper-parameterized linear Bayesian inverse problems, where the hyper-parameter characterizes nonlinear flexibilities in the forward model,…

math.OC2020★ 4 cited

Taylor approximation for chance constrained optimization problems governed by partial differential equations with high-dimensional random parameters

Peng Chen, Omar Ghattas

We propose a fast and scalable optimization method to solve chance or probabilistic constrained optimization problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) with high-di…

stat.ME2020★ 28 cited

Bayesian inference of heterogeneous epidemic models: Application to COVID-19 spread accounting for long-term care facilities

Peng Chen, Keyi Wu, Omar Ghattas

We propose a high dimensional Bayesian inference framework for learning heterogeneous dynamics of a COVID-19 model, with a specific application to the dynamics and severity of COVI…

math.NA2020★ 22 cited

Derivative-Informed Projected Neural Networks for High-Dimensional Parametric Maps Governed by PDEs

Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry, Umberto Villa, Peng Chen +1

Many-query problems, arising from uncertainty quantification, Bayesian inversion, Bayesian optimal experimental design, and optimization under uncertainty-require numerous evaluati…

math.NA2020★ 16 cited

A fast and scalable computational framework for large-scale and high-dimensional Bayesian optimal experimental design

Keyi Wu, Peng Chen, Omar Ghattas

We develop a fast and scalable computational framework to solve large-scale and high-dimensional Bayesian optimal experimental design problems. In particular, we consider the probl…

math.OC2020★ 64 cited

Optimal design of acoustic metamaterial cloaks under uncertainty

Peng Chen, Michael R. Haberman, Omar Ghattas

In this work, we consider the problem of optimal design of an acoustic cloak under uncertainty and develop scalable approximation and optimization methods to solve this problem. Th…

math.NA2020★ 1 cited

Stein variational reduced basis Bayesian inversion

Peng Chen, Omar Ghattas

We propose and analyze a Stein variational reduced basis method (SVRB) to solve large-scale PDE-constrained Bayesian inverse problems. To address the computational challenge of dra…

cs.LG2020★ 19 cited

Projected Stein Variational Gradient Descent

Peng Chen, Omar Ghattas

The curse of dimensionality is a longstanding challenge in Bayesian inference in high dimensions. In this work, we propose a projected Stein variational gradient descent (pSVGD) me…

math.NA2019★ 2 cited

Sparse polynomial approximation for optimal control problems constrained by elliptic PDEs with lognormal random coefficients

Peng Chen, Omar Ghattas

In this work, we consider optimal control problems constrained by elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with lognormal random coefficients, which are represented by a coun…

math.OC2019★ 36 cited

Projected Stein Variational Newton: A Fast and Scalable Bayesian Inference Method in High Dimensions

Peng Chen, Keyi Wu, Joshua Chen +2

We propose a fast and scalable variational method for Bayesian inference in high-dimensional parameter space, which we call projected Stein variational Newton (pSVN) method. We exp…

math.NA2018★ 1 cited

Hessian-based sampling for high-dimensional model reduction

Peng Chen, Omar Ghattas

In this work we develop a Hessian-based sampling method for the construction of goal-oriented reduced order models with high-dimensional parameter inputs. Model reduction is known…

math.NA2018★ 1 cited

Sparse polynomial approximations for affine parametric saddle point problems

Peng Chen, Omar Ghattas

In this work we study convergence properties of sparse polynomial approximations for a class of affine parametric saddle point problems. Such problems can be found in many computat…

math.OC2018★ 45 cited

Taylor approximation and variance reduction for PDE-constrained optimal control under uncertainty

Peng Chen, Umberto Villa, Omar Ghattas

In this work we develop a scalable computational framework for the solution of PDE-constrained optimal control under high-dimensional uncertainty. Specifically, we consider a mean-…

math.NA2017★ 40 cited

Hessian-based adaptive sparse quadrature for infinite-dimensional Bayesian inverse problems

Peng Chen, Umberto Villa, Omar Ghattas

In this work we propose and analyze a Hessian-based adaptive sparse quadrature to compute infinite-dimensional integrals with respect to the posterior distribution in the context o…

math.NA2016★ 1 cited

Sparse Quadrature for High-Dimensional Integration with Gaussian Measure

Peng Chen

In this work we analyze the dimension-independent convergence property of an abstract sparse quadrature scheme for numerical integration of functions of high-dimensional parameters…