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Colloques interdisciplinaires du Collège de France Événements de la vie scientifique de l'établissement, les colloques, dont le programme comprend à la fois des professeurs du Collège de France et des conférenciers invités, traite de thèmes aux nombreuses ramifications, dont les enjeux contemporains gagnent à être analysés au prisme des disciplines et des champs du savoir.

  1. Jun 24

    Colloque - Karen E. Willcox : Multifidelity Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

    Yvon Maday Chaire Informatique et sciences numériques Collège de France Année 2025-2026 Colloque : Aspects mathématiques et appliqués des méthodes de réduction de complexité - Karen E. Willcox : Multifidelity Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Karen E. Willcox Professor, Director of Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USA Résumé The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is widely used to compute a low-dimensional basis that underpins a subsequent dimension reduction or reduced-order modeling step. POD is data-driven in the sense that it requires a training data set of high-fidelity solutions, typically referred to as snapshots. For many complex scientific applications, the computational cost of generating these snapshots is prohibitive, especially when their generation requires sampling over a high-dimensional parameter space. This talk presents a multifidelity POD (mfPOD) formulation that leverages cheaper, lower-fidelity snapshots to reduce the computational cost of computing the POD basis. MFPOD then weights high- and low-fidelity snapshot data via a control-variate formulation to guarantee an unbiased estimate of the expected high-fidelity least-squares projection error. For restrictive computational budgets, the MFPOD cost function has (under some assumptions) lower variance than the POD cost function, which makes the MFPOD subspace more robust against variations in the training data and thus less prone to overfitting. Numerical results show that mfPOD achieves an order of magnitude in computational speedup, translating into useful gains in large-scale problems. Joint work with Nicole Aretz.

  2. Jun 24

    Colloque - Tommaso Taddei : Registration in Bounded Domains for Model Reduction of Parametric Conservation Laws

    Yvon Maday Chaire Informatique et sciences numériques Collège de France Année 2025-2026 Colloque : Aspects mathématiques et appliqués des méthodes de réduction de complexité - Tommaso Taddei : Registration in Bounded Domains for Model Reduction of Parametric Conservation Laws Tommaso Taddei Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis, Department of Mathematics Guido Castelnuovo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Résumé In this talk, I review recent efforts on the development of registration methods for parametric model order reduction (MOR), with emphasis on advection-dominated flows. In computer vision and pattern recognition, registration refers to the process of finding a parametric transformation that aligns two datasets; in model order reduction, registration methods seek a parametric bijection that tracks coherent structures (e.g., shocks, shear layers) of the solution field. The ultimate goal is to enhance performance of traditional linear compression methods (e.g., POD) and mesh adaptation techniques for the mapped solution field. We discuss the application of registration techniques to model reduction. First, we illustrate the combination of registration with projection-based reduced-order models and parametric mesh adaptation. Second, we discuss the application of registration to nonlinear interpolation. We present numerical results for two- and three-dimensional parametric compressible flows, to show the potential of the method.

  3. Jun 24

    Colloque - David Ryckelynck : Self Supervised Machine Learning of ROM-nets for Mechanics of Materials

    Yvon Maday Chaire Informatique et sciences numériques Collège de France Année 2025-2026 Colloque : Aspects mathématiques et appliqués des méthodes de réduction de complexité - David Ryckelynck : Self Supervised Machine Learning of ROM-nets for Mechanics of Materials David Ryckelynck Professeur à Mines Paris – PSL Résumé We propose a general framework for projection-based model order reduction using self-supervised machine learning [1]. For parametric elliptic equations this approach is theoretically based on Céa's Lemma. The proposed methodology, called ROM-net [2], consists in using deep learning techniques to adapt the reduced-order model to a stochastic input tensor whose nonparametrized variabilities strongly influence the quantities of interest for a given physics problem. In particular, we introduce the concept of dictionary-based ROM-nets, where deep neural networks recommend a suitable local reduced-order model from a dictionary. The dictionary of local reduced-order models is constructed from a clustering of vector subspaces in a Grassmann manifold. It enables the identification of the local low-dimensional subspace in which the solutions evolve for different input tensors. This methodology is applied to an anisothermal elastoplastic problem in structural mechanics coupled to a stochastic thermal field. When using deep neural networks, the selection of the best reduced-order model for a given thermal loading is 60 times faster than when following the clustering procedure used in the training phase. The implementation of local hyper-reduction schemes using a dictionary-based ROM-net is straightforward. The extension to variational inequalities will be addressed at the end of the lecture.

  4. Jun 24

    Colloque - Élise Grosjean : A Doubly Reduced Approximation for the Solution to PDEs Based on a Domain Truncation and a Reduced Basis Method: Application to Navier-Stokes Equations

    Yvon Maday Chaire Informatique et sciences numériques Collège de France Année 2025-2026 Colloque : Aspects mathématiques et appliqués des méthodes de réduction de complexité - Élise Grosjean : A Doubly Reduced Approximation for the Solution to PDEs Based on a Domain Truncation and a Reduced Basis Method: Application to Navier-Stokes Equations Élise Grosjean Enseignante-chercheuse Inria, Équipe IDEFIX de l'Unité de Mathématiques Appliquées, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Résumé During this talk, I will present the NIRB two-grid method, together with recent extensions applied to the Navier–Stokes equations, aimed at further reducing the computational cost of the algorithm. The NIRB two-grid method, introduced in [1], is based on two stages. First, during an offline phase, a reduced basis is constructed from high-fidelity solutions computed on a fine mesh, involving a large number of degrees of freedom, using a standard discretisation technique. Then, during the online phase, the parametric problem is solved on a coarser mesh, and the resulting solution is projected onto the reduced space, thereby substantially decreasing the computational cost. We extend this framework by further reducing the complexity of the online stage. As a representative application, we consider a classical benchmark problem in fluid mechanics: the two-dimensional Backward-Facing Step (BFS). In particular, we simplify the online computation by (i) using a coarse uniform mesh, rather than refining it near the re-entrant corner, and (ii) significantly truncating the outflow section of the channel. Both choices would typically be regarded as detrimental to the accuracy of a high-fidelity flow representation. To overcome this difficulty, we construct two reduced bases and introduce a deterministic linear mapping that enables the transfer from one basis to the other. Additional numerical simulations, including three-dimensional and time-dependent configurations, demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.

  5. Jun 24

    Colloque - Kathrin Smetana : Certified Randomized Model Order Reduction Methods for High-Dimensional Approximation

    Yvon Maday Chaire Informatique et sciences numériques Collège de France Année 2025-2026 Colloque : Aspects mathématiques et appliqués des méthodes de réduction de complexité - Kathrin Smetana : Certified Randomized Model Order Reduction Methods for High-Dimensional Approximation Kathrin Smetana Tenure-track Assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA Résumé In this talk, we present randomized methods that provide high-probability guarantees for the accuracy of reduced order approximations of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) with high-dimensional parameter sets. The underlying philosophy is to combine classical reduced basis and greedy approximation ideas with concentration phenomena and data-dependent sampling to obtain certified approximations in high dimensions. We first present non-asymptotic error bounds for the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) under the sole assumption that the parameter-to-solution map is uniformly bounded for almost all parameter values. In contrast to existing results, the leading term in our bounds is governed by the sum of the neglected eigenvalues and scales inversely with the number of samples, thereby allowing one to exploit rapid eigenvalue decay. The resulting estimates are independent of the dimension of the parameter space. Consequently, even a modest number of samples can be sufficient for the empirical POD approximation to perform comparably to the ideal POD constructed from the full parameter distribution, including in infinite-dimensional parameter settings.

  6. Jun 24

    Colloque - Geneviève Dusson : Metric-Based Nonlinear Model Order Reduction with Applications to Quantum Chemistry

    Yvon Maday Chaire Informatique et sciences numériques Collège de France Année 2025-2026 Colloque : Aspects mathématiques et appliqués des méthodes de réduction de complexité - Geneviève Dusson : Metric-Based Nonlinear Model Order Reduction with Applications to Quantum Chemistry Geneviève Dusson Chargée de recherche, CNRS, Laboratoire de mathématiques de Besançon, université Franche-Comté Résumé A broad class of problems in science and engineering involves the repeated solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) for different parameter values. Linear reduced order models are a powerful tool to decrease the computational cost of these simulations by approximating the solutions in a low-dimensional space. They have proven highly effective in many settings; however, they often perform poorly for transport-dominated PDEs, where key solution features such as translations cannot be accurately represented in a linear subspace. To overcome these limitations, several nonlinear reduced order models have recently been proposed, including approaches based on quadratic or polynomial mappings and neural networks. In this talk, I will present an alternative metric-based approach to nonlinear model order reduction. The central idea is to replace linear combinations in low-dimensional spaces with barycenters taken with respect to a suitably chosen metric, computed from a small number of representative solutions. In particular, I will provide constructions based on the Wasserstein distance from optimal transport, which is well adapted to capturing translations. I will also show how the choice of metric can be adapted to incorporate physical constraints, such as sparsity or prescribed marginals. The proposed methodology will be illustrated through numerical examples involving the approximation of electronic densities and pair densities arising in quantum chemistry.

  7. Jun 23

    Colloque - Ludovic Chamoin : Integrated Structural Health Monitoring with Real-time Data Assimilation and Hybrid Twins

    Yvon Maday Chaire Informatique et sciences numériques Collège de France Année 2025-2026 Colloque : Aspects mathématiques et appliqués des méthodes de réduction de complexité - Ludovic Chamoin : Integrated Structural Health Monitoring with Real-time Data Assimilation and Hybrid Twins Ludovic Chamoin Professeur, LMPS, ENS Paris-Saclay Résumé The design of smart autonomous mechanical structures able to perform online control of their integrity, and take anticipated actions during service before downtime or failure occur, has become an active research area. It is a critical need in various industrial sectors (transport, energy, etc.) for more reliability but also more performance and durability of equipment (aircrafts, wind turbines, bridges, etc.). Implementing such an advanced technology would permit optimized maintenance and capability to operate in degraded mode, managing the decrease of loading capabilities by adapting the operating plan. However, the real-time monitoring of damage in engineering systems, by dynamically coupling predictive simulation tools (in terms of digital twins) and sensor observations, is made very difficult in practice due to several issues. In particular, the complex nonlinear multiscale phenomena which are involved may be associated with computationally intensive simulations (hardly compatible with real-time), which requires reduced order modeling and effective strategies for data assimilation and control. In addition, the problem is plagued with model bias, uncertain environment, and measurement noise, which need to be taken into account for accurate diagnosis and prognosis, and safe decision-making. In this context, an appealing trend is to refer to hybrid twins, in which an a priori physics-guided model is updated and enriched on-the-fly with data-based information, thus making benefit of all knowledge available.

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