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Automatic differentiation (AD) frameworks such as JAX and PyTorch have enabled gradient-based optimization for a wide range of scientific fields. Yet, many "hard" primitives in these libraries such as thresholding, Boolean logic, discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Anselm Paulus , A. René Geist , Vít Musil , Sebastian Hoffmann , Onur Beker , Georg Martius

The Hessian-vector product computation appears in many scientific applications such as in optimization and finite element modeling. Often there is a need for computing Hessian-vector products at many data points concurrently. We propose an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Desh Ranjan , Mohammad Zubair

As computational challenges in optimization and statistical inference grow ever harder, algorithms that utilize derivatives are becoming increasingly more important. The implementation of the derivatives that make these algorithms so…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Bob Carpenter , Matthew D. Hoffman , Marcus Brubaker , Daniel Lee , Peter Li , Michael Betancourt

Graph algorithms can be expressed in terms of linear algebra. GraphBLAS is a library of low-level building blocks for such algorithms that targets algorithm developers. LAGraph builds on top of the GraphBLAS to target users of graph…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Gábor Szárnyas , David A. Bader , Timothy A. Davis , James Kitchen , Timothy G. Mattson , Scott McMillan , Erik Welch

We introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads. Efficient implementations of tensor operators, such as matrix multiplication and high dimensional convolution, are key enablers of effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Tianqi Chen , Lianmin Zheng , Eddie Yan , Ziheng Jiang , Thierry Moreau , Luis Ceze , Carlos Guestrin , Arvind Krishnamurthy

We present libsharp, a code library for spherical harmonic transforms (SHTs), which evolved from the libpsht library, addressing several of its shortcomings, such as adding MPI support for distributed memory systems and SHTs of fields with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Reinecke , Dag Sverre Seljebotn

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

Sparse linear algebra is central to many scientific programs, yet compilers fail to optimize it well. High-performance libraries are available, but adoption costs are significant. Moreover, libraries tie programs into vendor-specific…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Philip Ginsbach , Bruce Collie , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

In this paper, we argue that modern functional programming languages - in particular, FSharp on the .NET platform - are well suited for the development of distributed, web and cloud applications on the Internet. We emphasize that FSharp can…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Dmitri Soshnikov

We present a library of efficient implementations of deep learning primitives. Deep learning workloads are computationally intensive, and optimizing their kernels is difficult and time-consuming. As parallel architectures evolve, kernels…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Sharan Chetlur , Cliff Woolley , Philippe Vandermersch , Jonathan Cohen , John Tran , Bryan Catanzaro , Evan Shelhamer

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as a core tool for machine learning. The computations performed during DNN training and inference are dominated by operations on the weight matrices describing the DNN. As DNNs incorporate more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Jeremy Kepner , Manoj Kumar , José Moreira , Pratap Pattnaik , Mauricio Serrano , Henry Tufo

Memory is a limiting resource for many deep learning tasks. Beside the neural network weights, one main memory consumer is the computation graph built up by automatic differentiation (AD) for backpropagation. We observe that PyTorch's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Samarth Bhatia , Felix Dangel

Deep Learning Library (DLL) is a new library for machine learning with deep neural networks that focuses on speed. It supports feed-forward neural networks such as fully-connected Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Convolutional Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-15 Baptiste Wicht , Jean Hennebert , Andreas Fischer

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

The concept of linearity plays a central role in both mathematics and computer science, with distinct yet complementary meanings. In mathematics, linearity underpins functions and vector spaces, forming the foundation of linear algebra and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Giulia Giusti

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) in large-cluster computing environments is increasingly necessary, as networks grow in size and complexity. Local memory and processing limitations require robust data and model parallelism for crossing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Russell J. Hewett , Thomas J. Grady

Deep learning models with convolutional and recurrent networks are now ubiquitous and analyze massive amounts of audio, image, video, text and graph data, with applications in automatic translation, speech-to-text, scene understanding,…

Discovering patterns in data that best describe the differences between classes allows to hypothesize and reason about class-specific mechanisms. In molecular biology, for example, this bears promise of advancing the understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nils Philipp Walter , Jonas Fischer , Jilles Vreeken

Algebraic differentiators have attracted much interest in recent years. Their simple implementation as classical finite impulse response digital filters and systematic tuning guidelines may help to solve challenging problems, including, but…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Amine Othmane , Joachim Rudolph

Differentiable programming is the combination of classical neural networks modules with algorithmic ones in an end-to-end differentiable model. These new models, that use automatic differentiation to calculate gradients, have new learning…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Adrián Hernández , José M. Amigó