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A recent paper by Boughammoura (2023) describes the back-propagation algorithm in terms of an alternative formulation called the F-adjoint method. In particular, by the F-adjoint algorithm the computation of the loss gradient, with respect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ahmed Boughammoura

Seismic traveltime tomography represents a popular and useful tool for unravelling the structure of the subsurface across the scales. In this work we address the case where the forward model is represented by the eikonal equation and derive…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Andrea Zunino , Scott Keating , Andreas Fichtner

Adjoint logic is a general approach to combining multiple logics with different structural properties, including linear, affine, strict, and (ordinary) intuitionistic logics, where each proposition has an intrinsic mode of truth. It has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Junyoung Jang , Sophia Roshal , Frank Pfenning , Brigitte Pientka

We derive and implement a second-order adjoint method to compute exact gradients and Hessians for a prototypical quantum optimal control problem, that of solving for the minimal energy applied electric field that drives a molecule from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Harish S. Bhat

The challenge of assigning importance to individual neurons in a network is of interest when interpreting deep learning models. In recent work, Dhamdhere et al. proposed Total Conductance, a "natural refinement of Integrated Gradients" for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Avanti Shrikumar , Jocelin Su , Anshul Kundaje

Recent differentiable rendering techniques have become key tools to tackle many inverse problems in graphics and vision. Existing models, however, assume steady-state light transport, i.e., infinite speed of light. While this is a safe…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Shinyoung Yi , Donggun Kim , Kiseok Choi , Adrian Jarabo , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim

In this paper we suggest the use of light for performing useful computations. Namely, we propose a special device which uses light rays for solving the Hamiltonian path problem on a directed graph. The device has a graph-like representation…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-08-13 Mihai Oltean

Finding the physical location of a specific network node is a prototypical task for navigation inside a wireless network. In this paper, we consider in depth the implications of wireless communication as a measurement input of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Christian Blum , Verena V. Hafner

In a variety of problems originating in supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, the loss function is defined by an expectation over a collection of random variables, which might be part of a probabilistic model or the external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-06 John Schulman , Nicolas Heess , Theophane Weber , Pieter Abbeel

We review various numerical approaches to compute transport coefficients in molecular dynamics. These approaches can be broadly classified into three groups: (i) nonequilibrium methods based on applying an external driving field to the…

We consider a class of optimal control problems for measure-valued nonlinear transport equations describing traffic flow problems on networks. The objective isto minimise/maximise macroscopic quantities, such as traffic volume or average…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Raul De Maio , Andrea Tosin

Stellarators are a promising route to steady-state fusion power. However, to achieve the required confinement, the magnetic geometry must be highly optimized. This optimization requires navigating high-dimensional spaces, often…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Elizabeth Paul , Ian Abel , Matt Landreman , William Dorland

We propose two new dependent type systems. The first, is a dependent graded/linear type system where a graded dependent type system is connected via modal operators to a linear type system in the style of Linear/Non-linear logic. We then…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Peter Hanukaev , Harley Eades

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

When inclusions with extreme conductivity (insulator or perfect conductor) are closely located, the gradient of the solution to the conductivity equation can be arbitrarily large. And computation of the gradient is extremely challenging due…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Hyeonbae Kang , Mikyoung Lim , KiHyun Yun

This paper studies interpretability of convolutional networks by means of saliency maps. Most approaches based on Class Activation Maps (CAM) combine information from fully connected layers and gradient through variants of backpropagation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Felipe Torres Figueroa , Hanwei Zhang , Ronan Sicre , Yannis Avrithis , Stephane Ayache

Adjoints are used in optimization to speed-up computations, simplify optimality conditions or compute sensitivities. Because time is reversed in adjoint equations with first order time derivatives, boundary conditions and transmission…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2011-04-12 Frederic Alauzet , Olivier Pironneau

We study the conjugate gradient method for solving s system of linear equations with coefficients which are measurable functions and establish the rate of convergence of this method.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-08 King-Fai Lai

The gradients used to train neural networks are typically computed using backpropagation. While an efficient way to obtain exact gradients, backpropagation is computationally expensive, hinders parallelization, and is biologically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Katharina Flügel , Daniel Coquelin , Marie Weiel , Charlotte Debus , Achim Streit , Markus Götz

The purpose of this study is to show some mathematical aspects of the adjoint method that is a numerical method for the Cauchy problem, an inverse boundary value problem. The adjoint method is an iterative method based on the variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-16 Takemi Shigeta