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This work presents the Second-Order Sensitivity Analysis Methodology (2nd-ASAM) for nonlinear systems. This methodology yields exactly and efficiently the second-order functional derivatives of system responses (associated with physical,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Dan Gabriel Cacuci

Sensitivity analysis, especially adjoint based sensitivity analysis, is a powerful tool for engineering design which allows for the efficient computation of sensitivities with respect to many parameters. However, these methods break down…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Patrick Blonigan , Qiqi Wang

Adjoint-based sensitivity analysis methods are powerful tools for engineers who use flow simulations for design. However, the conventional adjoint method breaks down for scale-resolving simulations like large-eddy simulation (LES) or direct…

In this work we develop adjoint-based analyses for \textit{a posteriori} error estimation for the temporal discretization of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) of special type: semi-explicit index-1 and Hessenberg index-2. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry , Owen L. Lewis , Md Al Amin Molla

Rapid advances in deep learning have brought not only myriad powerful neural networks, but also breakthroughs that benefit established scientific research. In particular, automatic differentiation (AD) tools and computational accelerators…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Yin Li , Chirag Modi , Drew Jamieson , Yucheng Zhang , Libin Lu , Yu Feng , François Lanusse , Leslie Greengard

We introduce Adjoint Sampling, a highly scalable and efficient algorithm for learning diffusion processes that sample from unnormalized densities, or energy functions. It is the first on-policy approach that allows significantly more…

We propose a novel second-order optimization framework for training the emerging deep continuous-time models, specifically the Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs). Since their training already involves expensive gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper presents a novel adjoint solver for differentiable fluid simulation based on bidirectional flow maps. Our key observation is that the forward fluid solver and its corresponding backward, adjoint solver share the same flow map as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhiqi Li , Jinjin He , Barnabás Börcsök , Taiyuan Zhang , Duowen Chen , Tao Du , Ming C. Lin , Greg Turk , Bo Zhu

Neural differential equations may be trained by backpropagating gradients via the adjoint method, which is another differential equation typically solved using an adaptive-step-size numerical differential equation solver. A proposed step is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Patrick Kidger , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Terry Lyons

There is a growing literature adopting a stochastic optimal control (SOC) perspective to fine-tune diffusion models and related generative policies. A prominent class of methods, known as iterative diffusion optimization, solves the SOC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yuhang Mei , Amirhossein Taghvaei

This paper presents a new predictive second order sliding controller (PSSC) formulation for setpoint tracking of constrained linear systems. The PSSC scheme is developed by combining the concepts of model predictive control (MPC) and second…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Mohammad Reza Amini , Mahdi Shahbakhti , Jing Sun

This work presents an illustrative application of the second-order adjoint sensitivity analysis procedure (SO-ASAP) to a paradigm neutron diffusion problem, which is sufficiently simple to admit an exact solution, thereby making transparent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Dan G. Cacuci

The adjoint method, recently introduced by Evans, is used to study obstacle problems, weakly coupled systems, cell problems for weakly coupled systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and weakly coupled systems of obstacle type. In particular,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Filippo Cagnetti , Diogo Gomes , Hung Tran

This paper proposes an algorithmic framework for solving parametric optimization problems which we call adjoint-based predictor-corrector sequential convex programming. After presenting the algorithm, we prove a contraction estimate that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Q. Tran Dinh , C. Savorgnan , M. Diehl

We devise the fast adjoint response algorithm for the gradient of physical measures (long-time-average statistics) of discrete-time hyperbolic chaos with respect to many system parameters. Its cost is independent of the number of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Angxiu Ni

In recent years, the use of adjoint vectors in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has seen a dramatic rise. Their utility in numerous applications, including design optimization, data assimilation, and mesh adaptation has sparked the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Steven M. Kast

The Latent Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) is a powerful tool for time series and sequence modeling. However, training Latent SDEs typically relies on adjoint sensitivity methods, which depend on simulation and backpropagation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-27 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth

We consider flows of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) driven by path differentiable vector fields. Path differentiable functions constitute a proper subclass of Lipschitz functions which admit conservative gradients, a notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Swann Marx , Edouard Pauwels

The ocean general circulation model OPA is developed by the LODYC team at Paris VI university. OPA has recently undergone a major rewriting, migrating to FORTRAN95, and its adjoint code needs to be rebuilt. For earlier versions, the adjoint…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2007-11-29 Moulay Hicham Tber , Laurent Hascoet , Arthur Vidard , Benjamin Dauvergne

The paper contributes to strengthening the relation between machine learning and the theory of differential equations. In this context, the inverse problem of fitting the parameters, and the initial condition of a differential equation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Imre Fekete , András Molnár , Péter L. Simon