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The paradigm of differentiable programming has significantly enhanced the scope of machine learning via the judicious use of gradient-based optimization. However, standard differentiable programming methods (such as autodiff) typically…

The Adomian decomposition method is a semi-analytical method for solving ordinary and partial nonlinear differential equations. The aim of this paper is to apply Adomian decomposition method to obtain approximate solutions of nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Iqra Javed , Ashfaq Ahmad , Muzammil Hussain , S. Iqbal

The efficient solution of discretisations of coupled systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) is at the core of much of numerical simulation. Significant effort has been expended on scalable algorithms to precondition Krylov…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Robert C. Kirby , Lawrence Mitchell

Scientific studies often require the precise calculation of derivatives. In many cases an analytical calculation is not feasible and one resorts to evaluating derivatives numerically. These are error-prone, especially for higher-order…

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In an effort to increase the versatility of finite element codes, we explore the possibility of automatically creating the Jacobian matrix necessary for the gradient-based solution of nonlinear systems of equations. Particularly, we aim to…

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We propose machine learning methods for solving fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with convex Hamiltonian. Our algorithms are conducted in two steps. First the PDE is rewritten in its dual stochastic control…

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Several algorithms in computer algebra involve the computation of a power series solution of a given ordinary differential equation. Over finite fields, the problem is often lifted in an approximate $p$-adic setting to be well-posed. This…

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Studies in thermodynamics often require the reduction of some first or second order partial derivatives in terms of a smaller basic set. A simple algorithm to perform such a reduction is presented here, together with a review of earlier…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Jacques H. H. Perk

A characteristic feature of differential-algebraic equations is that one needs to find derivatives of some of their equations with respect to time, as part of so called index reduction or regularisation, to prepare them for numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-28 John D. Pryce , Nedialko S. Nedialkov , Guangning Tan , Xiao Li

We represent an algorithm allowing one to construct new classes of partially integrable multidimensional nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) starting with the special type of solutions to the (1+1)-dimensional hierarchy of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 A. I. Zenchuk

All known elimination techniques for (first-order) algorithmic differentiation (AD) rely on Jacobians to be given for a set of relevant elemental functions. Realistically, elemental tangents and adjoints are given instead. They can be…

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This work presents a brief discussion and a plan towards the analytical solving of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) using symbolic computing, as well as an implementation of part of this plan as the PDEtools software-package of…

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This work develops a class of probabilistic algorithms for the numerical solution of nonlinear, time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). Current state-of-the-art PDE solvers treat the space- and time-dimensions separately,…

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The implementation of the discrete adjoint method for exponential time differencing (ETD) schemes is considered. This is important for parameter estimation problems that are constrained by stiff time-dependent PDEs when the discretized PDE…

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Algorithmic differentiation (AD) allows exact computation of derivatives given only an implementation of an objective function. Although many AD tools are available, a proper and efficient implementation of AD methods is not…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Filip Šrajer , Zuzana Kukelova , Andrew Fitzgibbon

A new Jacobian approximation is developed for use in quasi-Newton methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations. The new hypersecant Jacobian approximation is intended for the special case where the evaluation of the functions whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-05-08 Johan Carlsson , John R. Cary

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

In PDE-constrained optimization, one aims to find design parameters that minimize some objective, subject to the satisfaction of a partial differential equation. A major challenges is computing gradients of the objective to the design…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Emil Løvbak , Frédéric Blondeel , Adam Lee , Lander Vanroye , Andreas Van Barel , Giovanni Samaey

We present two analytical formulae for estimating the sensitivity -- namely, the gradient or Jacobian -- at given realizations of an arbitrary-dimensional random vector with respect to its distributional parameters. The first formula…

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