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20172026
most citedDetecting Lagrangian coherent structures from sparse and noisy trajectory data

28 citations · 71 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

A Stabilized Path-Space Approach to Diffusion-Based Posterior Sampling

Evan Scope Crafts, Umberto Villa, Saviz Mowlavi +3

Diffusion models provide expressive data-driven priors for Bayesian inverse problems, but many diffusion posterior samplers rely on heuristic guidance approximations that can fail…

cs.LG2026

OpInf-LLM: Parametric PDE Solving with LLMs via Operator Inference

Zhuoyuan Wang, Hanjiang Hu, Xiyu Deng +2

Solving diverse partial differential equations (PDEs) is fundamental in science and engineering. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in code generati…

cs.LG2025

AB-PINNs: Adaptive-Basis Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Residual-Driven Domain Decomposition

Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse, Wael H. Ali, Mouhacine Benosman +1

We introduce adaptive-basis physics-informed neural networks (AB-PINNs), a novel approach to domain decomposition for training PINNs in which existing subdomains dynamically adapt…

math.OC2025

A Dual Ensemble Kalman Filter Approach to Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems: An Application to Partial Differential Equations

Anant A. Joshi, Saviz Mowlavi, Mouhacine Benosman

This paper considers the problem of data-driven robust control design for nonlinear systems, for instance, obtained when discretizing nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs…

eess.SY2024

Policy Optimization for PDE Control with a Warm Start

Xiangyuan Zhang, Saviz Mowlavi, Mouhacine Benosman +1

Dimensionality reduction is crucial for controlling nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE) through a "reduce-then-design" strategy, which identifies a reduced-order model a…

cs.LG2024

Smooth and Sparse Latent Dynamics in Operator Learning with Jerk Regularization

Xiaoyu Xie, Saviz Mowlavi, Mouhacine Benosman

Spatiotemporal modeling is critical for understanding complex systems across various scientific and engineering disciplines, but governing equations are often not fully known or co…

cs.RO2024

OptiState: State Estimation of Legged Robots using Gated Networks with Transformer-based Vision and Kalman Filtering

Alexander Schperberg, Yusuke Tanaka, Saviz Mowlavi +3

State estimation for legged robots is challenging due to their highly dynamic motion and limitations imposed by sensor accuracy. By integrating Kalman filtering, optimization, and…

eess.SY2023

Dual parametric and state estimation for partial differential equations

Saviz Mowlavi, Mouhacine Benosman

Designing estimation algorithms for systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) such as fluid flows is challenging due to the high-dimensional and oftentimes nonlinea…

eess.SY2023

Controlgym: Large-Scale Control Environments for Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

Xiangyuan Zhang, Weichao Mao, Saviz Mowlavi +2

We introduce controlgym, a library of thirty-six industrial control settings, and ten infinite-dimensional partial differential equation (PDE)-based control problems. Integrated wi…

math.OC2023

Global Convergence of Receding-Horizon Policy Search in Learning Estimator Designs

Xiangyuan Zhang, Saviz Mowlavi, Mouhacine Benosman +1

We introduce the receding-horizon policy gradient (RHPG) algorithm, the first PG algorithm with provable global convergence in learning the optimal linear estimator designs, i.e.,…

cs.CE2023★ 1 cited

Detecting hidden structures from a static loading experiment: topology optimization meets physics-informed neural networks

Saviz Mowlavi, Ken Kamrin

Most noninvasive imaging techniques utilize electromagnetic or acoustic waves originating from multiple locations and directions to identify hidden geometrical structures. Surprisi…

cs.LG2023

Reinforcement learning-based estimation for partial differential equations

Saviz Mowlavi, Mouhacine Benosman

In systems governed by nonlinear partial differential equations such as fluid flows, the design of state estimators such as Kalman filters relies on a reduced-order model (ROM) tha…

math.OC2021

Optimal control of PDEs using physics-informed neural networks

Saviz Mowlavi, Saleh Nabi

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently become a popular method for solving forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). By incorp…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 28 cited

Detecting Lagrangian coherent structures from sparse and noisy trajectory data

Saviz Mowlavi, Mattia Serra, Enrico Maiorino +1

Many complex flows such as those arising from ocean plastics in geophysics or moving cells in biology are characterized by sparse and noisy trajectory datasets. We introduce techni…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 14 cited

Interplay between hysteresis and nonlocality during onset and arrest of flow in granular materials

Saviz Mowlavi, Ken Kamrin

The jamming transition in granular materials is well-known for exhibiting hysteresis, wherein the level of shear stress required to trigger flow is larger than that below which flo…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 4 cited

Reduced model for capillary breakup with thermal gradients: Predictions and computational validation

Isha Shukla, Fan Wang, Saviz Mowlavi +4

It was recently demonstrated that feeding a silicon-in-silica coaxial fibre into a flameimparting a steep silica viscosity gradientresults in the formatio…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 2 cited

Contact model for elastically anisotropic bodies and efficient implementation into the discrete-element method

Saviz Mowlavi, Ken Kamrin

We introduce a contact law for the normal force generated between two contacting, elastically anisotropic bodies of arbitrary geometry. The only requirement is that their surfaces…

physics.flu-dyn2019

Particle size selection in capillary instability of locally heated co-axial fiber

Saviz Mowlavi, Isha Shukla, PT Brun +1

Harnessing fluidic instabilities to produce structures with robust and regular properties has recently emerged as a new fabrication paradigm. This is exemplified in the work of Gum…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 3 cited

Absolute/convective secondary instabilities and the role of confinement in free shear layers

Cristobal Arratia, Saviz Mowlavi, Francois Gallaire

Mixing layers can grow in time or space by vortex pairings that succeed each other in a nearly self-similar way. We use a point vortex model to study how confinement eventually lim…

physics.comp-ph2017★ 19 cited

Model order reduction for stochastic dynamical systems with continuous symmetries

Saviz Mowlavi, Themistoklis P. Sapsis

Stochastic dynamical systems with continuous symmetries arise commonly in nature and often give rise to coherent spatio-temporal patterns. However, because of their random location…