Event(s) on August 2022

• Tuesday, 23rd August, 2022

  Title:	Convex Shape Representation method with Fast Algorithms and Numerical Analysis for Solving PDEs by Deep Learning
  Speaker:	Mr LI Lingfeng, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  Time/Place:	15:30  -  17:30 Zoom, Meeting ID: 999 9124 3867 Passcode: 827552
  Abstract:	This thesis contains two parts. In the first part, we present a new method for convex shape representation, which is regardless of the dimension of objects. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed prior is the first one which can work for high dimensional objects. We first prove that the convexity of the considered object is equivalent to the convexity of the associated signed distance function. Then, the second order condition of convex functions is used to characterize the shape convexity equivalently. We apply this new method to two applications: object segmentation with convexity prior and convex hull problem (especially with outliers). We also propose algorithms based on the alternating direction method of multipliers to solve them. Numerical experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of proposed representation methods and algorithms. In the second part, we derive a priori error estimate for the mixed residual method solving some elliptic PDEs by neural networks. Our work is the first theoretical study of this method. We prove that the neural network solutions will converge if we increase the training samples and network size. The increase of training samples is independent of network size. Besides, our results suggest that the mixed residual method can recover high order derivatives better than the deep Ritz method.

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