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48 results for scientific problem solving

Since time immemorial, people have been looking for ways to organize scientific knowledge into some systems to facilitate search and discovery of new ideas. The problem was partially solved in the pre-Internet era using library classifications, but nowadays it is nearly impossible to classify all scientific and popular…

2018-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Why do nations produce scientific research? This is a fundamental problem in the field of social studies of science. The paper confronts this question here by showing vital determinants of science to explain the sources of social power and wealth creation by nations. Firstly, this study suggests a new general definitio…

2018-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently optimizes hyperparameters for PDE and inverse problems using Gaussian processes.

problem Hyperparameter optimization for scientific computing and inference methods.
method Bilevel optimization with Gauss-Newton linearization for efficient hyperparameter updates.
result Significant improvements in accuracy and robustness compared to random initialization.

BEKAN uses RBFs and evolutionary methods to solve PDEs with boundary conditions.

problem Enforcing boundary conditions in neural networks for PDE solutions.
method Boundary condition-guaranteed evolutionary Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (BEKAN) with radial basis functions (RBFs). Incorporates Dirichlet, periodic, and Neumann conditions.
result BEKAN outperforms MLP and B-splines KAN in solving PDEs with boundary conditions.

SCaSML improves PDE solvers by correcting errors efficiently.

problem Reliable and error-free high-dimensional PDE solutions.
method Defect correction method to derive a Structural-preserving Law of Defect.
result SCaSML achieves faster convergence and reduced errors in high-dimensional PDEs.

Differentiable programming aids in solving differential equations and their sensitivities.

problem Computing gradients of numerical solutions of differential equations.
method Review of existing techniques and mathematical foundations.
result Established a coherent framework for combining differential equations with data-driven approaches.

OKRidge solves sparse ridge regression problems for nonlinear systems.

problem Identifying sparse governing equations for nonlinear dynamical systems.
method OKRidge algorithm using saddle point formulation and ADMM-based approach with efficient proximal operators.
result OKRidge achieves provable optimality with significantly faster run times than Gurobi.

In recent years, ideas from statistics and scientific computing have begun to interact in increasingly sophisticated and fruitful ways with ideas from computer science and the theory of algorithms to aid in the development of improved worst-case algorithms that are useful for large-scale scientific and Internet data an…

2010-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Last year, at least 30,000 scientific papers used the Kohn-Sham scheme of density functional theory to solve electronic structure problems in a wide variety of scientific fields, ranging from materials science to biochemistry to astrophysics. Machine learning holds the promise of learning the kinetic energy functional …

2016-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of precision matrix estimation where, due to extraneous confounding of the underlying precision matrix, the data are independent but not identically distributed. While such confounding occurs in many scientific problems, our approach is inspired by recent neuroscientific research suggesting that…

2018-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

CPS solves inverse problems using forward passes and constrained particle seeking.

problem Solving inverse problems with limited forward observation information.
method Gradient-free approach that reformulates inverse problem as constrained optimization.
result CPS achieves results comparable to gradient-based methods while outperforming alternatives.

Measuring the relationship between any pair of variables is a rich and active area of research that is central to scientific practice. In contrast, characterizing the common information among any group of variables is typically a theoretical exercise with few practical methods for high-dimensional data. A promising sol…

2016-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

MEP-Net uses MEP to generate solutions from limited data.

problem Generating solutions to scientific problems with incomplete information.
method Combines MEP with neural networks to learn complex distributions from moment constraints.
result Demonstrates MEP-Net's effectiveness in modeling biochemical reaction networks and generating complex distributions.

In recent years, the field of machine learning has made phenomenal progress in the pursuit of simulating real-world data generation processes. One notable example of such success is the variational autoencoder (VAE). In this work, with a small shift in perspective, we leverage and adapt VAEs for a different purpose: un…

2019-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method generates clean data from corrupted observations.

problem Generating clean data from corrupted observations.
method Iterative update of a transport map using black-box corruption channel access.
result Converges to a self-consistent transport map that effectively inverts the corruption channel.

MDNs offer a data-efficient alternative to diffusion and flow models for multimodal scientific learning.

problem Capturing multimodal conditional uncertainty in scientific inverse problems.
method Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) as explicit parametric density estimators.
result MDNs achieve superior generalization, interpretability, and sample efficiency in scientific tasks.

New method uses LLMs to generate detailed scientific hypotheses.

problem Generating detailed, actionable scientific hypotheses from coarse initial directions.
method Hierarchical search method that incrementally adds details to hypotheses.
result Hierarchical search method consistently outperforms strong baselines on expert-annotated hypotheses.

AutoKE automates embedding physical knowledge into neural networks for complex engineering problems.

problem Complex physical equations in engineering problems.
method AutoKE framework using deep neural networks, equation parsing, automatic differentiation, adaptive weights, and NAS.
result Automatically embeds physical knowledge into neural networks for complex equations efficiently.

Optimal neural network approximation for Wasserstein gradient direction via convex optimization.

problem Approximating Wasserstein gradient direction with limited data.
method Two-layer networks with squared-ReLU activations, SDP relaxation.
result Optimal approximation of Wasserstein gradient direction in two-layer networks.

To promote economic stability, finance should be studied as a hard science, where scientific methods apply. When a trading strategy is proposed, the underlying model should be transparent and defined robustly to allow other researchers to understand and examine it thoroughly. Like any hard sciences, results must be rep…

2018-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops IFTRR to solve sparse generalized eigenvalue problems efficiently.

problem Finding the leading eigenvector with at most k nonzero entries in sparse generalized eigenvalue problems.
method Inverse-free truncated Rayleigh-Ritz method (IFTRR) with a new truncation strategy.
result IFTRR efficiently finds the support set of the leading eigenvector for large scale problems.

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in diverse applications; however, its use in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) has emerged only recently. Here, we present an overview of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), which embed a PDE into the loss of the neural network using automatic differentiat…

2019-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach connects UQ in SciML to viscous HJ PDEs for efficient uncertainty quantification.

problem Challenges in interpretability and expensive training procedures in UQ for SciML.
method Established connection between Bayesian inference and viscous HJ PDEs, developed Riccati-based methodology.
result Efficiently updates model predictions without retraining or data access, suitable for real-time inferences.

Clustering is a fundamental problem in many scientific applications. Standard methods such as kk-means, Gaussian mixture models, and hierarchical clustering, however, are beset by local minima, which are sometimes drastically suboptimal. Recently introduced convex relaxations of kk-means and hierarchical clustering s…

2013-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

GPs' decisions can vary significantly with different kernels, even if kernels are qualitatively similar.

problem Robustness of GP decisions to kernel choice.
method Solved a constrained optimization problem over a finite-dimensional space to identify changes in GP decisions.
result Decisions made with a GP can be non-robust to kernel choice, even with qualitatively similar kernels.

CoPhy-PGNN tackles competing PG losses in neural networks for solving eigenvalue problems.

problem Solving eigenvalue problems with competing physics-guided loss functions.
method Learning generalizable solutions using a novel approach to handle competing PG losses.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the approach in quantum mechanics and electromagnetic propagation.

In this paper we study the adaptive learnability of decision trees of depth at most dd from membership queries. This has many applications in automated scientific discovery such as drugs development and software update problem. Feldman solves the problem in a randomized polynomial time algorithm that asks $\tilde O(2^…

2019-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In order to evaluate the quality of the scientific research, we introduce a new family of scientific performance measures, called Scientific Research Measures (SRM). Our proposal originates from the more recent developments in the theory of risk measures and is an attempt to resolve the many problems of the existing bi…

2012-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗

The preceding three decades have seen the emergence, rise, and proliferation of machine learning (ML). From half-recognised beginnings in perceptrons, neural nets, and decision trees, algorithms that extract correlations (that is, patterns) from a set of data points have broken free from their origin in computational c…

2017-04-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers often summarize their work in the form of posters. Posters provide a coherent and efficient way to convey core ideas from scientific papers. Generating a good scientific poster, however, is a complex and time consuming cognitive task, since such posters need to be readable, informative, and visually aesthet…

2016-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗