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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 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

Where dual-numbers forward-mode automatic differentiation (AD) pairs each scalar value with its tangent value, dual-numbers reverse-mode AD attempts to achieve reverse AD using a similarly simple idea: by pairing each scalar value with a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tom Smeding , Matthijs Vákár

This article provides an overview of some of the mathematical principles of Automatic Differentiation (AD). In particular, we summarise different descriptions of the Forward Mode of AD, like the matrix-vector product based approach, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Philipp H. W. Hoffmann

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

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

Tools for algorithmic differentiation (AD) provide accurate derivatives of computer-implemented functions for use in, e. g., optimization and machine learning (ML). However, they often require the source code of the function to be available…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Max Aehle , Johannes Blühdorn , Max Sagebaum , Nicolas R. Gauger

Automatic differentiation---the mechanical transformation of numeric computer programs to calculate derivatives efficiently and accurately---dates to the origin of the computer age. Reverse mode automatic differentiation both antedates and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Atilim Gunes Baydin , Barak A. Pearlmutter

Differentiable programming, enabled by automatic differentiation (AD), provides a robust framework for gradient-based optimization in computational plasma physics. While optimization is often only used towards design, we demonstrate that it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 A. S. Joglekar , A. G. R. Thomas , A. L. Milder , K. G. Miller , J. P. Palastro , D. H. Froula

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

We show how the basic Combinatory Homomorphic Automatic Differentiation (CHAD) algorithm can be optimised, using well-known methods, to yield a simple, composable, and generally applicable reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Tom Smeding , Matthijs Vákár

Derivatives, mostly in the form of gradients and Hessians, are ubiquitous in machine learning. Automatic differentiation (AD), also called algorithmic differentiation or simply "autodiff", is a family of techniques similar to but more…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Atilim Gunes Baydin , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Alexey Andreyevich Radul , Jeffrey Mark Siskind

Differentiable programming is a fresh programming paradigm which composes parameterized algorithmic components and trains them using automatic differentiation (AD). The concept emerges from deep learning but is not only limited to training…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-11 Hai-Jun Liao , Jin-Guo Liu , Lei Wang , Tao Xiang

Grant-free transmission and cell-free communication are vital in improving coverage and quality-of-service for massive machine-type communication. This paper proposes a novel framework of joint active user detection, channel estimation, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Gangle Sun , Mengyao Cao , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

A large class of non-smooth practical optimization problems can be written as minimization of a sum of smooth and partly smooth functions. We examine such structured problems which also depend on a parameter vector and study the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Sheheryar Mehmood , Peter Ochs

Recent advances in neural-network architecture allow for seamless integration of convex optimization problems as differentiable layers in an end-to-end trainable neural network. Integrating medium and large scale quadratic programs into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Andrew Butler , Roy Kwon

Massive grant-free transmission and cell-free wireless communication systems have emerged as pivotal enablers for massive machine-type communication. This paper proposes a deep-unfolding-based joint activity and data detection (DU-JAD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Gangle Sun , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

The performance of deep neural networks is well-known to be sensitive to the setting of their hyperparameters. Recent advances in reverse-mode automatic differentiation allow for optimizing hyperparameters with gradients. The standard way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Jie Fu , Hongyin Luo , Jiashi Feng , Kian Hsiang Low , Tat-Seng Chua

Where dual-numbers forward-mode automatic differentiation (AD) pairs each scalar value with its tangent derivative, dual-numbers /reverse-mode/ AD attempts to achieve reverse AD using a similarly simple idea: by pairing each scalar value…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Tom Smeding , Matthijs Vákár

Due to massive amounts of data distributed across multiple locations, distributed machine learning has attracted a lot of research interests. Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful method of designing distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jiahao Ding , Xiaoqi Qin , Wenjun Xu , Yanmin Gong , Chi Zhang , Miao Pan