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Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) is a data based modeling tool that identifies a matrix to map a quantity at some time instant to the same quantity in future. We design a new version which we call Adaptive Dynamic Mode Decomposition (ADMD)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Mohammad N. Murshed , M. Monir Uddin

We propose a forward-mode automatic differentiation (AD) framework for tensor renormalization group (TRG) methods. In this approach, evaluating the derivatives of the partition function up to order $k$ increases the matrix-multiplication…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-12 Yuto Sugimoto

We introduce Combinatory Homomorphic Automatic Differentiation (CHAD), a principled, pure, provably correct define-then-run method for performing forward- and reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) on programming languages with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Matthijs Vákár , Tom Smeding

In this paper we take a look at Automatic Differentiation through the eyes of Tensor and Operational Calculus. This work is best consumed as supplementary material for learning tensor and operational calculus by those already familiar with…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Žiga Sajovic

We show that Automatic Differentiation (AD) operators can be provided in a dynamic language without sacrificing numeric performance. To achieve this, general forward and reverse AD functions are added to a simple high-level dynamic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Jeffrey Mark Siskind , Barak A. Pearlmutter

Algorithmic differentiation (AD) has become increasingly capable and straightforward to use. However, AD is inefficient when applied directly to solvers, a feature of most engineering analyses. We can leverage implicit differentiation to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Andrew Ning , Taylor McDonnell

Automatic Differentiation (AD) is a powerful tool that allows calculating derivatives of implemented algorithms with respect to all of their parameters up to machine precision, without the need to explicitly add any additional functions.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Teresa Tamayo-Mendoza , Christoph Kreisbeck , Roland Lindh , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Based on a class of associative algebras with zero-divisors which are called real-like algebras by us, we introduce a way of defining automatic differentiation and present different ways of doing automatic differentiation to compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Keqin Liu

We give a simple, direct and reusable logical relations technique for languages with term and type recursion and partially defined differentiable functions. We demonstrate it by working out the case of Automatic Differentiation (AD)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Matthijs Vákár

We address the task of higher-order derivative evaluation of computer programs that contain QR decompositions and real symmetric eigenvalue decompositions. The approach is a combination of univariate Taylor polynomial arithmetic and matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-01 Sebastian F. Walter , Lutz Lehmann , René Lamour

This course, intended for undergraduates familiar with elementary calculus and linear algebra, introduces the extension of differential calculus to functions on more general vector spaces, such as functions that take as input a matrix and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Paige Bright , Alan Edelman , Steven G. Johnson

We present a simple technique for semantic, open logical relations arguments about languages with recursive types, which, as we show, follows from a principled foundation in categorical semantics. We demonstrate how it can be used to give a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Matthijs Vákár

This paper provides a new approach to derive various arbitrary high order finite difference formulae for the numerical differentiation of analytic functions. In this approach, various first and second order formulae for the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Saint-Cyr E. R. Koyaguerebo-Imé , Yves Bourgault

Douglas-Rachford splitting and its equivalent dual formulation ADMM are widely used iterative methods in composite optimization problems arising in control and machine learning applications. The performance of these algorithms depends on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Jacob H. Seidman , Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado , George J. Pappas

We apply program verification technology to the problem of specifying and verifying automatic differentiation (AD) algorithms. We focus on define-by-run, a style of AD where the program that must be differentiated is executed and monitored…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Paulo Emílio de Vilhena , François Pottier

We demonstrate that automatic differentiation (AD), which has become commonly available in machine learning frameworks, is an efficient way to explore ideas that lead to algorithmic improvement in multi-scale affine image registration and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Warin Watson , Cash Cherry , Rachelle Lang

Recent theoretical work on automatic differentiation (autodiff) has focused on characteristics such as correctness and efficiency while assuming that all derivatives are automatically generated by autodiff using program transformation, with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Sam Estep

Automatic differentiation is involved for long in applied mathematics as an alternative to finite difference to improve the accuracy of numerical computation of derivatives. Each time a numerical minimization is involved, automatic…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-06-08 Sébastien Geeraert , Charles-Albert Lehalle , Barak Pearlmutter , Olivier Pironneau , Adil Reghai

Differentiation along algorithms, i.e., piggyback propagation of derivatives, is now routinely used to differentiate iterative solvers in differentiable programming. Asymptotics is well understood for many smooth problems but the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Jérôme Bolte , Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

Classical reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) imposes only a small constant-factor overhead in operation count over the original computation, but has storage requirements that grow, in the worst case, in proportion to the time…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Jeffrey Mark Siskind , Barak A. Pearlmutter