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We give a gentle introduction to using various software tools for automatic differentiation (AD). Ready-to-use examples are discussed, and links to further information are presented. Our target audience includes all those who are looking…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Uwe Naumann , Andrea Walther

This paper presents our work toward correct and efficient automatic differentiation of OpenMP parallel worksharing loops in forward and reverse mode. Automatic differentiation is a method to obtain gradients of numerical programs, which are…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Jan Hückelheim , Laurent Hascoët

PyECLOUD is a newly developed code for the simulation of the electron cloud (EC) build-up in particle accelerators. Almost entirely written in Python, it is mostly based on the physical models already used in the ECLOUD code but, thanks to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 G. Iadarola , G. Rumolo

A number of attempts have been made to improve accuracy and/or scalability of the PC (Peter and Clark) algorithm, some well known (Buhlmann, et al., 2010; Kalisch and Buhlmann, 2007; 2008; Zhang, 2012, to give some examples). We add here…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Joseph Ramsey

The structural identifiability and the observability of a model determine the possibility of inferring its parameters and states by observing its outputs. These properties should be analysed before attempting to calibrate a model.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Xabier Rey Barreiro , Alejandro F. Villaverde

Selecting an optimal classification model requires a robust and comprehensive understanding of the performance of the model. This paper provides a tutorial on the PyCM library, demonstrating its utility in conducting deep-dive evaluations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Sadra Sabouri , Alireza Zolanvari , Sepand Haghighi

Determining the best partition for a dataset can be a challenging task because of 1) the lack of a priori information within an unsupervised learning framework; and 2) the absence of a unique clustering validation approach to evaluate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Isotta Landi , Veronica Mandelli , Michael V. Lombardo

Automatic differentiation (AD) is a set of techniques that systematically applies the chain rule to compute the gradients of functions without requiring human intervention. Although the fundamentals of this technology were established…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Afif Boudaoud , Alexandru Calotoiu , Marcin Copik , Torsten Hoefler

PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for differentiable programming of quantum computers. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing devices, supporting both qubit and continuous-variable paradigms.…

Automatic Differentiation (AD) is instrumental for science and industry. It is a tool to evaluate the derivative of a function specified through a computer program. The range of AD application domain spans from Machine Learning to Robotics…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ioana Ifrim , Vassil Vassilev , David J Lange

Aims. We present pyUPMASK, an unsupervised clustering method for stellar clusters that builds upon the original UPMASK package. Its general approach makes it plausible to be applied to analyses that deal with binary classes of any kind, as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-16 M. S. Pera , G. I. Perren , A. Moitinho , H. D. Navone , R. A. Vazquez

Cross-Project Defect Prediction (CPDP), which borrows data from similar projects by combining a transfer learner with a classifier, have emerged as a promising way to predict software defects when the available data about the target project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ke Li , Zilin Xiang , Tao Chen , Kay Chen Tan

The computation of first and second-order derivatives is a staple in many computing applications, ranging from machine learning to scientific computing. We propose an algorithm to automatically differentiate algorithms written in a subset…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Deshana Desai , Etai Shuchatowitz , Zhongshi Jiang , Teseo Schneider , Daniele Panozzo

PyUnfold is a Python package for incorporating imperfections of the measurement process into a data analysis pipeline. In an ideal world, we would have access to the perfect detector: an apparatus that makes no error in measuring a desired…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-06-12 James Bourbeau , Zigfried Hampel-Arias

Combinatorial optimization problems for clustering are known to be NP-hard. Most optimization methods are not able to find the global optimum solution for all datasets. To solve this problem, we propose a global optimal path-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Qidong Liu , Ruisheng Zhang

An in-house developed 2D ultrasound computerized Tomography system is fully automated. Performance analysis of instrument and software interfacing soft tools, namely the LabVIEW, MATLAB, C, and Python, is presented. The instrument…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Ankur Kumar , Mayank Goswami

An open-source, Python-based Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) reactor simulation and processing program is introduced. TAPsolver utilizes algorithmic differentiation for the calculation of highly accurate derivatives, which are used to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Adam Yonge , M. Ross Kunz , Rakesh Batchu , Zongtang Fang , Tobin Issac , Rebecca Fushimi , Andrew J. Medford

The need to efficiently calculate first- and higher-order derivatives of increasingly complex models expressed in Python has stressed or exceeded the capabilities of available tools. In this work, we explore techniques from the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Bart van Merriënboer , Dan Moldovan , Alexander B Wiltschko

The increasing adoption of AI-generated code has reshaped modern software development, introducing syntactic and semantic variations in cloned code. Unlike traditional human-written clones, AI-generated clones exhibit systematic syntactic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ajmain Inqiad Alam , Palash Roy , Farouq Al-omari , Chanchal Roy , Banani Roy , Kevin Schneider

The exponential growth of complex data demands fully automatic clustering. Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) provide uncertainty-aware grouping but often require expertise to specify hyperparameters, e.g., component count and covariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Tingshan Liu , Thomas L. Athey , Benjamin D. Pedigo , Joshua T. Vogelstein