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This document, as the title stated, is meant to provide a vectorized implementation of adjoint dynamics calculation for Graph Convolutional Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (GCDE). The adjoint sensitivity method is the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jack Cai

Adjoint methods have been the pillar of gradient-based optimization for decades. They enable the accurate computation of a gradient (sensitivity) of a quantity of interest with respect to all system's parameters in one calculation. When the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-12 Defne E. Ozan , Luca Magri

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

In this work, we present an adjoint-based method for discovering the underlying governing partial differential equations (PDEs) given data. The idea is to consider a parameterized PDE in a general form and formulate a PDE-constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Mohsen Sadr , Tony Tohme , Kamal Youcef-Toumi

We present a general and automated approach for computing model gradients for PDE solvers built on sparse spectral methods, and implement this capability in the widely used open-source Dedalus framework. We apply reverse-mode automatic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Calum S. Skene , Keaton J. Burns

First-order optimization algorithms, often preferred for large problems, require the gradient of the differentiable terms in the objective function. These gradients often involve linear operators and their adjoints, which must be applied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-10 James Folberth , Stephen Becker

Gradient-based techniques are becoming increasingly critical in quantitative fields, notably in statistics and computer science. The utility of these techniques, however, ultimately depends on how efficiently we can evaluate the derivatives…

Computation · Statistics 2020-02-04 Michael Betancourt , Charles C. Margossian , Vianey Leos-Barajas

The goal of this paper is to give a comprehensive and short review on how to compute the first and second order topological derivative and potentially higher order topological derivatives for PDE constrained shape functionals. We employ the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Phillip Baumann , Kevin Sturm

High-quality ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver libraries have a long history, going back to the 1970s. Over the past several years we have implemented, on top of the PETSc linear and nonlinear solver package, a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Shrirang Abhyankar , Jed Brown , Emil M. Constantinescu , Debojyoti Ghosh , Barry F. Smith , Hong Zhang

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Daniel Z. Huang , Per-Olof Persson , Matthew J. Zahr

Differentiable programming is revolutionizing computational science by enabling automatic differentiation (AD) of numerical simulations. While first-order gradients are well-established, second-order derivatives (Hessians) for implicit…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tianju Xue

This work focuses on the numerical assessment of the accuracy of an adjoint-based gradient in the perspective of variational data assimilation and parameter identification in glaciology. Using noisy synthetic data, we quantify the ability…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 Nathan Martin , Jérôme Monnier

Calibration of unknown model parameters is a common task in many ocean model applications. We present an adjoint-based optimization of an unstructured mesh shallow water model for the Baltic Sea. Spatially varying bottom friction parameter…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Tuomas Kärnä , Joseph G. Wallwork , Stephan C. Kramer

A neural network model of a differential equation, namely neural ODE, has enabled the learning of continuous-time dynamical systems and probabilistic distributions with high accuracy. The neural ODE uses the same network repeatedly during a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Takashi Matsubara , Yuto Miyatake , Takaharu Yaguchi

Algorithmic differentiation (AD) has become increasingly capable and straightforward to use. However, AD is inefficient when applied directly to solvers, a feature of most engineering analyses. We can leverage implicit differentiation to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Andrew Ning , Taylor McDonnell

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) have recently attracted increasing attention; however, their empirical performance on benchmark tasks (e.g. image classification) are significantly inferior to discrete-layer models. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-07 Juntang Zhuang , Nicha Dvornek , Xiaoxiao Li , Sekhar Tatikonda , Xenophon Papademetris , James Duncan

The design space of dynamic multibody systems (MBSs), particularly those with flexible components, is considerably large. Consequently, having a means to efficiently explore this space and find the optimum solution within a feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Mehran Ebrahimi , Adrian Butscher , Hyunmin Cheong , Francesco Iorio

To increase the predictive power of a model, one needs to estimate its unknown parameters. Almost all parameter estimation techniques in ordinary differential equation models suffer from either a small convergence region or enormous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Ozgur Aydogmus , Ali Hakan Tor

Mathematical models that couple partial differential equations (PDEs) and spatially distributed ordinary differential equations (ODEs) arise in biology, medicine, chemistry and many other fields. In this paper we discuss an extension to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Patrick E. Farrell , Johan E. Hake , Simon W. Funke , Marie E. Rognes

We present a systematic derivation of the algorithms required for computing the gradient and the action of the Hessian of an arbitrary misfit function for large-scale parameter estimation problems involving linear time-dependent PDEs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Kai Rothauge , Eldad Haber , Uri Ascher