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48 results for phase-field mechanics

Universal model for soft tissue mechanics under shock waves.

problem Modeling shock wave mechanics in soft biological tissues.
method Continuum mixture theory with phase-field mechanics.
result Universal thermodynamically consistent formulation for soft porous tissues.

Data-driven approach learns effective equations for phase field interfaces.

problem Learning accurate equations for phase field interface dynamics.
method Data-driven identification of partial differential equations from phase field data.
result Data-driven equations outperform analytical approximations in certain regimes.

Machine learning predicts failure in brittle materials with high accuracy.

problem Predicting failure in brittle materials under repetitive loads.
method Phase-field model combined with supervised machine learning.
result Framework predicts failure with acceptable accuracy even in noisy data.

New proof confirms De Giorgi's conjecture about phase-field approximation of Willmore functional.

problem Proving a conjecture about the phase-field approximation of the Willmore functional.
method Using Γ-convergence and properties of the Allen-Cahn energy and its variations.
result The original De Giorgi conjecture holds with k=0.

The homotopy theory of topological defects in ordered media fails to completely characterize systems with broken translational symmetry. We argue that the problem can be understood in terms of the lack of rotational Goldstone modes in such systems and provide an alternate approach that correctly accounts for the intera…

2009-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes structure topology for ductile and brittle fracture resistance.

problem Minimizing mass while ensuring structural damage and fracture resistance.
method Phase-field approach for modeling fracture, level-set topology optimization.
result Enhanced fracture resistance through two formulations.

Common models for two-phase lipid bilayer membranes are based on an energy that consists of an elastic term for each lipid phase and a line energy at interfaces. Although such an energy controls only the length of interfaces, the membrane surface is usually assumed to be at least C1C^1 across phase boundaries. We consi…

2016-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Study proposes a nonlocal approximation of the Willmore functional using fractional Allen-Cahn energies.

problem Approximating the Willmore functional using nonlocal methods.
method Gamma-convergence and fractional Laplacian analysis in Fermi coordinates.
result Proves ΓΓ-limsup estimate for the proposed nonlocal approximation.

Study quantizes energy distribution in inhomogeneous phase transitions.

problem Quantifying energy distribution in inhomogeneous Allen-Cahn phase transitions.
method Analysis of varifolds and convergence of integer rectifiable varifolds.
result Equidistribution of energy between Dirichlet and Potential energy in phase field limit.

Variational approximations for curve flows on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Approximating solutions to curvature and elastic flow problems on Riemannian manifolds.
method Variational formulations, finite element approximations, piecewise linear elements, stability analysis.
result Derived schemes can compute rotationally symmetric self-shrinkers and geodesics.

The paper studies momentum-based minimization for Ginzburg-Landau on Euclidean spaces and graphs.

problem Minimizing the Ginzburg-Landau functional on Euclidean spaces and graphs.
method Momentum-based minimization using a convex-concave splitting-based FISTA-type time discretization.
result Momentum can lead to faster convergence if the time step size is large but not too large.

A solution for the Weinstein's Problem in the general framework of generalized Lie algebroids is the target of this paper. We present the mechanical systems called by use, mechanical (?; ?)-systems, Lagrange mechanical (?; ?)-systems or Finsler mechanical (?; ?)-systems and we develop their geometries. We obtain the ca…

2011-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

A new description, different by the classical theory of Hamiltonian Mechanics, in the general framework of generalized Lie algebroids is presented. In the particular case of Lie algebroids, new and important results are obtained. We present the \emph{dual mechanical systems} called by use, \emph{dual mechanical}$(ρ,η) …

2011-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper assesses Gaussian and Exponential mechanisms for certifying adversarial robustness.

problem Certifying adversarial robustness using randomized smoothing mechanisms.
method Proposes a generic framework to assess the appropriateness of randomized smoothing mechanisms.
result Gaussian mechanism is an appropriate option for certifying both 2\ell_2-norm and \ell_\infty-norm robustness.

Differential privacy mechanism design has traditionally been tailored for a scalar-valued query function. Although many mechanisms such as the Laplace and Gaussian mechanisms can be extended to a matrix-valued query function by adding i.i.d. noise to each element of the matrix, this method is often suboptimal as it for…

2018-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Expands differential privacy mechanisms to include the Generalized Gaussian mechanism for improved private machine learning.

problem Improving privacy in machine learning algorithms while maintaining utility.
method Introduces and analyzes the Generalized Gaussian (GG) mechanism for differential privacy.
result The GG mechanism provides better performance than the Laplace and Gaussian mechanisms across various values of β.

Optimal DP mechanisms for vector queries are found to be staircase distributions.

problem Designing optimal additive mechanisms for vector-valued queries under differential privacy.
method Reduction to radially symmetric distributions and convex rearrangement theory.
result Staircase mechanisms are optimal for any norm and cost function.

New approach identifies latent properties from mechanisms, not just data.

problem Identifying latent properties from data generating processes.
method Equivariance perspective on identifiable representation learning.
result Identification of latent properties is possible up to shared equivariances in known mechanisms.

New RL approach learns dynamic VCG mechanisms in unknown MDP environments.

problem Learning dynamic VCG mechanisms in unknown MDP environments.
method Reward-free online RL for exploration, combined with function approximation.
result Regret bound of O~(T2/3)\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(T^{2/3}) for dynamic VCG mechanism learning.

A new Gaussian mechanism for differential privacy in the shuffle model is introduced.

problem Improving differential privacy in distributed learning environments.
method Characterization and upper-bounding of Rényi differential privacy (RDP) for the shuffle Gaussian mechanism.
result The shuffle Gaussian mechanism provides improved privacy guarantees compared to existing methods.

We study the problem of what causes prices to change. We define the mechanical impact of a trading order as the change in future prices in the absence of any future changes in decision making, and its it informational impact as the remainder of the total impact once mechanical impact is removed. We introduce a method o…

2006-08-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New mechanism for pure differential privacy on functional summaries using Laplace-like process.

problem Challenges in achieving differential privacy for complex, structured functional summaries.
method Independent Component Laplace Process (ICLP) mechanism for infinite-dimensional Hilbert space.
result Effective enhancement of utility of private summaries through oversmoothing.

Unified framework for subsampling mechanisms with tighter privacy guarantees.

problem Improving privacy in machine learning models through subsampling.
method Conditional optimal transport for deriving mechanism-specific subsampling guarantees.
result Tighter privacy bounds for subsampled mechanisms compared to traditional methods.

This text explains how fiber bundle structure is fundamental for classical physics.

problem None explicitly stated, but implied as understanding fiber bundles is crucial for physics.
method Explains the fiber bundle structure and its universality for physics laws.
result Fiber bundle structure is fundamental for classical physics laws.

The paper improves privacy accounting for discrete-valued mechanisms and the subsampled Gaussian mechanism.

problem Improving the accuracy and efficiency of differential privacy accounting for discrete outputs.
method Uses fast Fourier transform (FFT) for rigorous error analysis and accounting of privacy loss.
result Provides strict lower and upper bounds for (ε,δ)(\varepsilon,δ)-values, demonstrating up to 75% reduction in noise variance.

This paper examines allocation mechanisms in markets with transfer costs, showing how these costs affect economic efficiency.

problem Transfer costs in decentralized exchange markets reduce economic efficiency.
method An axiomatic study of allocation mechanisms in the presence of transfer costs, providing robust and conditional mean allocation mechanisms.
result Robust and conditional mean allocation mechanisms are identified, relating to risk sharing in agent pools.

CICME estimates common and domain-specific causal mechanisms from multi-sensor data.

problem Inferring causal mechanisms from heterogeneous multi-sensor data across multiple domains.
method Three-step approach using Causal Transfer Learning (CTL).
result CICME reliably detects domain-invariant causal mechanisms and guides individual domain causal mechanism estimation.