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20162025
most citedOn the convergence of physics informed neural networks for linear second-order elliptic and parabolic type PDEs

277 citations · 461 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

math.OC2025

Shape Alignment via Allen-Cahn Nonlinear-Convection

Daniel Solano, Laurent Younes, Jerome Darbon

This paper demonstrates the impact of a phase field method on shape registration to align shapes of possibly different topology. It yields new insights into the building of discrep…

cs.LG2025

Automatic selection of the best neural architecture for time series forecasting

Qianying Cao, Shanqing Liu, Alan John Varghese +3

Time series forecasting plays a pivotal role in a wide range of applications, including weather prediction, healthcare, structural health monitoring, predictive maintenance, energy…

math.NA2024

Automatic discovery of optimal meta-solvers via multi-objective optimization

Youngkyu Lee, Shanqing Liu, Jerome Darbon +1

We design two classes of ultra-fast meta-solvers for linear systems arising after discretizing PDEs by combining neural operators with either simple iterative solvers, e.g., Jacobi…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

HJ-sampler: A Bayesian sampler for inverse problems of a stochastic process by leveraging Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs and score-based generative models

Tingwei Meng, Zongren Zou, Jérôme Darbon +1

The interplay between stochastic processes and optimal control has been extensively explored in the literature. With the recent surge in the use of diffusion models, stochastic pro…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

A time-dependent symplectic network for non-convex path planning problems with linear and nonlinear dynamics

Zhen Zhang, Chenye Wang, Shanqing Liu +2

We propose a novel neural network architecture (TSympOCNet) to address high--dimensional optimal control problems with linear and nonlinear dynamics. An important application of th…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Leveraging viscous Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs for uncertainty quantification in scientific machine learning

Zongren Zou, Tingwei Meng, Paula Chen +2

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) in scientific machine learning (SciML) combines the powerful predictive power of SciML with methods for quantifying the reliability of the learned m…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Leveraging Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs with time-dependent Hamiltonians for continual scientific machine learning

Paula Chen, Tingwei Meng, Zongren Zou +2

We address two major challenges in scientific machine learning (SciML): interpretability and computational efficiency. We increase the interpretability of certain learning processe…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Leveraging Multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs for Certain Scientific Machine Learning Problems

Paula Chen, Tingwei Meng, Zongren Zou +2

Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations (HJ PDEs) have deep connections with a wide range of fields, including optimal control, differential games, and imaging sciences. By…

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

SympOCnet: Solving optimal control problems with applications to high-dimensional multi-agent path planning problems

Tingwei Meng, Zhen Zhang, Jérôme Darbon +1

Solving high-dimensional optimal control problems in real-time is an important but challenging problem, with applications to multi-agent path planning problems, which have drawn in…

math.OC2021

Efficient and robust high-dimensional sparse logistic regression via nonlinear primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithms

Jérôme Darbon, Gabriel P. Langlois

Logistic regression is a widely used statistical model to describe the relationship between a binary response variable and predictor variables in data sets. It is often used in mac…

math.OC2021

Hopf-type representation formulas and efficient algorithms for certain high-dimensional optimal control problems

Paula Chen, Jérôme Darbon, Tingwei Meng

Two key challenges in optimal control include efficiently solving high-dimensional problems and handling optimal control problems with state-dependent running costs. In this paper,…

math.OC2021★ 4 cited

Lax-Oleinik-type formulas and efficient algorithms for certain high-dimensional optimal control problems

Paula Chen, Jérôme Darbon, Tingwei Meng

Two of the main challenges in optimal control are solving problems with state-dependent running costs and developing efficient numerical solvers that are computationally tractable…

math.OC2021

Accelerated nonlinear primal-dual hybrid gradient methods with applications to supervised machine learning

Jérôme Darbon, Gabriel P. Langlois

The linear primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method is a first-order method that splits convex optimization problems with saddle-point structure into smaller subproblems. Unlike t…

math.OC2021

On Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs and image denoising models with certain non-additive noise

Jérôme Darbon, Tingwei Meng, Elena Resmerita

We consider image denoising problems formulated as variational problems. It is known that Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs govern the solution of such optimization problems when the noise mode…

math.OC2021★ 20 cited

Neural network architectures using min-plus algebra for solving certain high dimensional optimal control problems and Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs

Jérôme Darbon, Peter M. Dower, Tingwei Meng

Solving high dimensional optimal control problems and corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs are important but challenging problems in control engineering. In this paper, we propose tw…

math.OC2021

Connecting Hamilton--Jacobi partial differential equations with maximum a posteriori and posterior mean estimators for some non-convex priors

Jérôme Darbon, Gabriel P. Langlois, Tingwei Meng

Many imaging problems can be formulated as inverse problems expressed as finite-dimensional optimization problems. These optimization problems generally consist of minimizing the s…

math.OC2021★ 6 cited

A Caputo fractional derivative-based algorithm for optimization

Yeonjong Shin, Jérôme Darbon, George Em Karniadakis

We propose a novel Caputo fractional derivative-based optimization algorithm. Upon defining the Caputo fractional gradient with respect to the Cartesian coordinate, we present a ge…

math.OC2021

Optimal Trajectories of a UAV Base Station Using Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

Marceau Coupechoux, Jérôme Darbon, Jean-Marc Kélif +1

We consider the problem of optimizing the trajectory of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Assuming a traffic intensity map of users to be served, the UAV must travel from a given i…

math.NA2020★ 277 cited

On the convergence of physics informed neural networks for linear second-order elliptic and parabolic type PDEs

Yeonjong Shin, Jerome Darbon, George Em Karniadakis

Physics informed neural networks (PINNs) are deep learning based techniques for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) encounted in computational science and engineering. Gu…

math.ST2020

On Bayesian posterior mean estimators in imaging sciences and Hamilton-Jacobi Partial Differential Equations

Jerome Darbon, Gabriel P. Langlois

Variational and Bayesian methods are two approaches that have been widely used to solve image reconstruction problems. In this paper, we propose original connections between Hamilt…

math.NA2020★ 71 cited

On some neural network architectures that can represent viscosity solutions of certain high dimensional Hamilton--Jacobi partial differential equations

Jérôme Darbon, Tingwei Meng

We propose novel connections between several neural network architectures and viscosity solutions of some Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations (PDEs) whose Hamilton…

math.OC2019★ 7 cited

Overcoming the curse of dimensionality for some Hamilton--Jacobi partial differential equations via neural network architectures

Jerome Darbon, Gabriel P. Langlois, Tingwei Meng

We propose new and original mathematical connections between Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations (PDEs) with initial data and neural network architectures. Specific…

math.OC2019★ 20 cited

On Decomposition Models in Imaging Sciences and Multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi Partial Differential Equations

Jérôme Darbon, Tingwei Meng

This paper provides new theoretical connections between multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations and variational image decomposition models in imaging sciences. We…

math.OC2018

Optimal Trajectories of a UAV Base Station Using Lagrangian Mechanics

Marceau Coupechoux, Jérôme Darbon, Jean-Marc Kélif +1

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing the trajectory of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Base Station (BS). We consider a map characterized by a traffic intensity of…