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Inverse design of complex flows is notoriously challenging because of the high cost of high dimensional optimization. Usually, optimization problems are either restricted to few control parameters, or adjoint-based approaches are used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Mohammed Alhashim , Kaylie Hausknecht , Michael Brenner

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

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) by numerical methods meet computational cost challenge for getting the accurate solution since fine grids and small time steps are required. Machine learning can accelerate this process, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Qi Wang , Yuan Mi , Haoyun Wang , Yi Zhang , Ruizhi Chengze , Hongsheng Liu , Ji-Rong Wen , Hao Sun

Neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs) have emerged as a novel network architecture that bridges dynamical systems and deep learning. However, the gradient obtained with the continuous adjoint method in the vanilla neural ODE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Hong Zhang , Wenjun Zhao

Dynamic optimization is currently limited by sensitivity computations that require information from full forward and adjoint wave fields. Since the forward and adjoint solutions are computed in opposing time directions, the forward solution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Leon Herrmann , Tim Bürchner , László Kudela , Stefan Kollmannsberger

We address distributed learning problems over undirected networks. Specifically, we focus on designing a novel ADMM-based algorithm that is jointly computation- and communication-efficient. Our design guarantees computational efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini

This paper presents our work toward correct and efficient automatic differentiation of OpenMP parallel worksharing loops in forward and reverse mode. Automatic differentiation is a method to obtain gradients of numerical programs, which are…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Jan Hückelheim , Laurent Hascoët

Checkpointing is a cornerstone of data-flow reversal in adjoint algorithmic differentiation. Checkpointing is a storage/recomputation trade-off that can be applied at different levels, one of which being the call tree. We are looking for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Laurent Hascoët , Jean-Luc Bouchot , Shreyas Sunil Gaikwad , Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan , Jan Hückelheim

This paper presents reverse-mode algorithmic differentiation (AD) based on source code transformation, in particular of the Static Single Assignment (SSA) form used by modern compilers. The approach can support control flow, nesting,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Michael Innes

In order to run Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes on large scale infrastructures, parallel computing has to be used because of the computational intensive nature of the problems. In this paper we investigate the ADAPT platform where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Imad Kissami , Christophe Cerin , Fayssal Benkhaldoun , Gilles Scarella

As more and more multiphysics effects are entering the field of CFD simulations, this raises the question how they can be accurately captured in gradient computations for shape optimization. The latter has been successfully enriched over…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Ole Burghardt , Nicolas R. Gauger

Stencil loops are a common motif in computations including convolutional neural networks, structured-mesh solvers for partial differential equations, and image processing. Stencil loops are easy to parallelise, and their fast execution is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Jan Hückelheim , Navjot Kukreja , Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan , Fabio Luporini , Gerard Gorman , Paul Hovland

Many claims of computational advantages have been made for quantum computing over classical, but they have not been demonstrated for practical problems. Here, we present algorithms for solving time-dependent PDEs, with particular reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Sachin S. Bharadwaj , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Optimizing shapes and topology of physical devices is crucial for both scientific and technological advancements, given its wide-ranging implications across numerous industries and research areas. Innovations in shape and topology…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Alexander Luce , Rasoul Alaee , Fabian Knorr , Florian Marquardt

In this paper, we present a new control model for optimizing pressure and water quality operations in water distribution networks. Our formulation imposes a set of time-coupling constraints to manage temporal pressure variations, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Bradley Jenks , Aly-Joy Ulusoy , Filippo Pecci , Ivan Stoianov

In this paper, we propose a hybrid parallel programming approach for a numerical solution of a two-dimensional acoustic wave equation using an implicit difference scheme for a single computer. The calculations are carried out in an implicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Arshyn Altybay , Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

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

This paper presents a novel attention-based algorithm for achieving adaptive computation called DACT, which, unlike existing ones, is end-to-end differentiable. Our method can be used in conjunction with many networks; in particular, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Cristobal Eyzaguirre , Alvaro Soto

Parallel-in-time methods are developed to accelerate the direct-adjoint looping procedure. Particularly, we utilize the Paraexp algorithm, previously developed to integrate equations forward in time, to accelerate the direct-adjoint looping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Calum S. Skene , Maximilian F. Eggl , Peter J. Schmid

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