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Differentiable rendering (DR) enables various computer graphics and computer vision applications through gradient-based optimization with derivatives of the rendering equation. Most rasterization-based approaches are built on…

We explore the possibility of exact algorithmic learning with gradient-based methods and introduce a differentiable framework capable of strong length generalization on arithmetic tasks. Our approach centers on Differentiable Finite-State…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hristo Papazov , Francesco D'Angelo , Nicolas Flammarion

Neural network-based approaches have recently shown significant promise in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in science and engineering, especially in scenarios featuring complex domains or incorporation of empirical data. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chuqi Chen , Yahong Yang , Yang Xiang , Wenrui Hao

Discriminative learning machines often need a large set of labeled samples for training. Active learning (AL) settings assume that the learner has the freedom to ask an oracle to label its desired samples. Traditional AL algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-24 Arash Mehrjou , Mehran Khodabandeh , Greg Mori

With the growth of machine learning algorithms with geometry primitives, a high-efficiency library with differentiable geometric operators are desired. We present an optimized Differentiable Geometry Algorithm Library (DGAL) loaded with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yuanxin Zhong

The formation of the large-scale structure, the evolution and distribution of galaxies, quasars, and dark matter on cosmological scales, requires numerical simulations. Differentiable simulations provide gradients of the cosmological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yin Li , Libin Lu , Chirag Modi , Drew Jamieson , Yucheng Zhang , Yu Feng , Wenda Zhou , Ngai Pok Kwan , François Lanusse , Leslie Greengard

The paper presents AMGCL -- an opensource C++ library implementing the algebraic multigrid method (AMG) for solution of large sparse linear systems of equations, usually arising from discretization of partial differential equations on an…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Denis Demidov

Dual numbers are a well-established tool for computing derivatives and constitute the basis of forward-mode automatic differentiation. While the theoretical framework for computing derivatives of arbitrary order is well understood,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 F. Peñuñuri , K. B. Cantún-Avila , R. Peón-Escalante

We propose extensions to Fortran which integrate forward and reverse Automatic Differentiation (AD) directly into the programming model. Irrespective of implementation technology, embedding AD constructs directly into the language extends…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Alexey Radul , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Jeffrey Mark Siskind

The performance of deep neural networks is highly sensitive to the choice of the hyperparameters that define the structure of the network and the learning process. When facing a new application, tuning a deep neural network is a tedious and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Dounia Lakhmiri , Sébastien Le Digabel , Christophe Tribes

Pruning is a promising approach to compress deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao

Automatic differentiation frameworks are optimized for exactly one thing: computing the average mini-batch gradient. Yet, other quantities such as the variance of the mini-batch gradients or many approximations to the Hessian can, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Felix Dangel , Frederik Kunstner , Philipp Hennig

Derivatives of differential equation solutions are commonly for parameter estimation, fitting neural differential equations, and as model diagnostics. However, with a litany of choices and a Cartesian product of potential methods, it can be…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Yingbo Ma , Vaibhav Dixit , Mike Innes , Xingjian Guo , Christopher Rackauckas

Automatic Differentiation (AD) has become a dominant technique in ML. AD frameworks have first been implemented for imperative languages using tapes. Meanwhile, functional implementations of AD have been developed, often based on dual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Timon Böhler , David Richter , Mira Mezini

Healthcare providers are increasingly using machine learning to predict patient outcomes to make meaningful interventions. However, despite innovations in this area, deep learning models often struggle to match performance of shallow linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Rohan S. Kodialam , Rebecca Boiarsky , Justin Lim , Neil Dixit , Aditya Sai , David Sontag

Reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) suffers from the issue of having too much space overhead to trace back intermediate computational states for back-propagation. The traditional method to trace back states is called checkpointing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Jin-Guo Liu , Taine Zhao

This paper presents Automatic Algorithm Discoverer (AAD), an evolutionary framework for synthesizing programs of high complexity. To guide evolution, prior evolutionary algorithms have depended on fitness (objective) functions, which are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Ruchira Sasanka , Konstantinos Krommydas

The rapid expansion of data from diverse sources has made anomaly detection (AD) increasingly essential for identifying unexpected observations that may signal system failures, security breaches, or fraud. As datasets become more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoqi Huang , Ping Wang , Jianhua Pei , Jiacheng Wang , Shahen Alexanian , Dusit Niyato

Deep Active Learning (DAL) reduces annotation costs by selecting the most informative unlabeled samples during training. As real-world applications become more complex, challenges stemming from distribution shifts (e.g., open-set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chenkai Wu , Yuanyuan Qi , Xiaohao Yang , Jueqing Lu , Gang Liu , Wray Buntine , Lan Du

Stochastic gradient descent-based algorithms are widely used for training deep neural networks but often suffer from slow convergence. To address the challenge, we leverage the framework of the alternating direction method of multipliers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ouya Wang , Shenglong Zhou , Geoffrey Ye Li