We consider an equation of multiple variables in which a partial derivative does not vanish at a point. The implicit function theorem provides a local existence and uniqueness of the function for the equation. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to approximate the function by a polynomial without using higher-order differentiability, which depends essentially on integrability. Moreover, we extend the method to a system of equations if the Jacobian determinant does not vanish. This is a robust method for implicit functions that are not differentiable to higher-order. Additionally, we present two numerical experiments to verify the theoretical results.
Wave propagation problems are typically formulated as partial differential equations (PDEs) on unbounded domains to be solved. The classical approach to solving such problems involves truncating them to problems on bounded domains by designing the artificial boundary conditions or perfectly matched layers, which typically require significant effort, and the presence of nonlinearity in the equation makes such designs even more challenging. Emerging deep learning-based methods for solving PDEs, with the physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) method as a representative, still face significant challenges when directly used to solve PDEs on unbounded domains. Calculations performed in a bounded domain of interest without imposing boundary constraints can lead to a lack of unique solutions thus causing the failure of PINNs. In light of this, this paper proposes a novel and effective operator learning-based method for solving PDEs on unbounded domains. The key idea behind this method is to generate high-quality training data. Specifically, we construct a family of approximate analytical solutions to the target PDE based on its initial condition and source term. Then, using these constructed data comprising exact solutions, initial conditions, and source terms, we train an operator learning model called MIONet, which is capable of handling multiple inputs, to learn the mapping from the initial condition and source term to the PDE solution on a bounded domain of interest. Finally, we utilize the generalization ability of this model to predict the solution of the target PDE. The effectiveness of this method is exemplified by solving the wave equation and the Schrodinger equation defined on unbounded domains. More importantly, the proposed method can deal with nonlinear problems, which has been demonstrated by solving Burger's equation and Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation.
Coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) are key tasks in modeling the complex dynamics of many physical processes. Recently, neural operators have shown the ability to solve PDEs by learning the integral kernel directly in Fourier/Wavelet space, so the difficulty for solving the coupled PDEs depends on dealing with the coupled mappings between the functions. Towards this end, we propose a \textit{coupled multiwavelets neural operator} (CMWNO) learning scheme by decoupling the coupled integral kernels during the multiwavelet decomposition and reconstruction procedures in the Wavelet space. The proposed model achieves significantly higher accuracy compared to previous learning-based solvers in solving the coupled PDEs including Gray-Scott (GS) equations and the non-local mean field game (MFG) problem. According to our experimental results, the proposed model exhibits a $2\times \sim 4\times$ improvement relative $L$2 error compared to the best results from the state-of-the-art models.
Reshaping, a point operation that alters the characteristics of signals, has been shown capable of improving the compression ratio in video coding practices. Out-of-loop reshaping that directly modifies the input video signal was first adopted as the supplemental enhancement information~(SEI) for the HEVC/H.265 without the need of altering the core design of the video codec. VVC/H.266 further improves the coding efficiency by adopting in-loop reshaping that modifies the residual signal being processed in the hybrid coding loop. In this paper, we theoretically analyze the rate-distortion performance of the in-loop reshaping and use experiments to verify the theoretical result. We prove that the in-loop reshaping can improve coding efficiency when the entropy coder adopted in the coding pipeline is suboptimal, which is in line with the practical scenarios that video codecs operate in. We derive the PSNR gain in a closed form and show that the theoretically predicted gain is consistent with that measured from experiments using standard testing video sequences.
Estimating the parameters of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is of fundamental importance in many scientific applications. While ODEs are typically approximated with deterministic algorithms, new research on probabilistic solvers indicates that they produce more reliable parameter estimates by better accounting for numerical errors. However, many ODE systems are highly sensitive to their parameter values. This produces deep local maxima in the likelihood function -- a problem which existing probabilistic solvers have yet to resolve. Here we present a novel probabilistic ODE likelihood approximation, DALTON, which can dramatically reduce parameter sensitivity by learning from noisy ODE measurements in a data-adaptive manner. Our approximation scales linearly in both ODE variables and time discretization points, and is applicable to ODEs with both partially-unobserved components and non-Gaussian measurement models. Several examples demonstrate that DALTON produces more accurate parameter estimates via numerical optimization than existing probabilistic ODE solvers, and even in some cases than the exact ODE likelihood itself.
We propose a new framework to design and analyze accelerated methods that solve general monotone equation (ME) problems $F(x)=0$. Traditional approaches include generalized steepest descent methods and inexact Newton-type methods. If $F$ is uniformly monotone and twice differentiable, these methods achieve local convergence rates while the latter methods are globally convergent thanks to line search and hyperplane projection. However, a global rate is unknown for these methods. The variational inequality methods can be applied to yield a global rate that is expressed in terms of $\|F(x)\|$ but these results are restricted to first-order methods and a Lipschitz continuous operator. It has not been clear how to obtain global acceleration using high-order Lipschitz continuity. This paper takes a continuous-time perspective where accelerated methods are viewed as the discretization of dynamical systems. Our contribution is to propose accelerated rescaled gradient systems and prove that they are equivalent to closed-loop control systems. Based on this connection, we establish the properties of solution trajectories. Moreover, we provide a unified algorithmic framework obtained from discretization of our system, which together with two approximation subroutines yields both existing high-order methods and new first-order methods. We prove that the $p^{th}$-order method achieves a global rate of $O(k^{-p/2})$ in terms of $\|F(x)\|$ if $F$ is $p^{th}$-order Lipschitz continuous and the first-order method achieves the same rate if $F$ is $p^{th}$-order strongly Lipschitz continuous. If $F$ is strongly monotone, the restarted versions achieve local convergence with order $p$ when $p \geq 2$. Our discrete-time analysis is largely motivated by the continuous-time analysis and demonstrates the fundamental role that rescaled gradients play in global acceleration for solving ME problems.
We study the asymptotic generalization of an overparameterized linear model for multiclass classification under the Gaussian covariates bi-level model introduced in Subramanian et al.~'22, where the number of data points, features, and classes all grow together. We fully resolve the conjecture posed in Subramanian et al.~'22, matching the predicted regimes for generalization. Furthermore, our new lower bounds are akin to an information-theoretic strong converse: they establish that the misclassification rate goes to 0 or 1 asymptotically. One surprising consequence of our tight results is that the min-norm interpolating classifier can be asymptotically suboptimal relative to noninterpolating classifiers in the regime where the min-norm interpolating regressor is known to be optimal. The key to our tight analysis is a new variant of the Hanson-Wright inequality which is broadly useful for multiclass problems with sparse labels. As an application, we show that the same type of analysis can be used to analyze the related multilabel classification problem under the same bi-level ensemble.
Quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is one of the popular quantum algorithms that are used to solve combinatorial optimization problems via approximations. QAOA is able to be evaluated on both physical and virtual quantum computers simulated by classical computers, with virtual ones being favored for their noise-free feature and availability. Nevertheless, performing QAOA on virtual quantum computers suffers from a slow simulation speed for solving combinatorial optimization problems which require large-scale quantum circuit simulation (QCS). In this paper, we propose techniques to accelerate QCS for QAOA using mathematical optimizations to compress quantum operations, incorporating efficient bitwise operations to further lower the computational complexity, and leveraging different levels of parallelisms from modern multi-core processors, with a study case to show the effectiveness on solving max-cut problems.
The existence of representative datasets is a prerequisite of many successful artificial intelligence and machine learning models. However, the subsequent application of these models often involves scenarios that are inadequately represented in the data used for training. The reasons for this are manifold and range from time and cost constraints to ethical considerations. As a consequence, the reliable use of these models, especially in safety-critical applications, is a huge challenge. Leveraging additional, already existing sources of knowledge is key to overcome the limitations of purely data-driven approaches, and eventually to increase the generalization capability of these models. Furthermore, predictions that conform with knowledge are crucial for making trustworthy and safe decisions even in underrepresented scenarios. This work provides an overview of existing techniques and methods in the literature that combine data-based models with existing knowledge. The identified approaches are structured according to the categories integration, extraction and conformity. Special attention is given to applications in the field of autonomous driving.
In multi-turn dialog, utterances do not always take the full form of sentences \cite{Carbonell1983DiscoursePA}, which naturally makes understanding the dialog context more difficult. However, it is essential to fully grasp the dialog context to generate a reasonable response. Hence, in this paper, we propose to improve the response generation performance by examining the model's ability to answer a reading comprehension question, where the question is focused on the omitted information in the dialog. Enlightened by the multi-task learning scheme, we propose a joint framework that unifies these two tasks, sharing the same encoder to extract the common and task-invariant features with different decoders to learn task-specific features. To better fusing information from the question and the dialog history in the encoding part, we propose to augment the Transformer architecture with a memory updater, which is designed to selectively store and update the history dialog information so as to support downstream tasks. For the experiment, we employ human annotators to write and examine a large-scale dialog reading comprehension dataset. Extensive experiments are conducted on this dataset, and the results show that the proposed model brings substantial improvements over several strong baselines on both tasks. In this way, we demonstrate that reasoning can indeed help better response generation and vice versa. We release our large-scale dataset for further research.
Image segmentation is still an open problem especially when intensities of the interested objects are overlapped due to the presence of intensity inhomogeneity (also known as bias field). To segment images with intensity inhomogeneities, a bias correction embedded level set model is proposed where Inhomogeneities are Estimated by Orthogonal Primary Functions (IEOPF). In the proposed model, the smoothly varying bias is estimated by a linear combination of a given set of orthogonal primary functions. An inhomogeneous intensity clustering energy is then defined and membership functions of the clusters described by the level set function are introduced to rewrite the energy as a data term of the proposed model. Similar to popular level set methods, a regularization term and an arc length term are also included to regularize and smooth the level set function, respectively. The proposed model is then extended to multichannel and multiphase patterns to segment colourful images and images with multiple objects, respectively. It has been extensively tested on both synthetic and real images that are widely used in the literature and public BrainWeb and IBSR datasets. Experimental results and comparison with state-of-the-art methods demonstrate that advantages of the proposed model in terms of bias correction and segmentation accuracy.