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Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is an open problem in machine learning. The Disentanglement-PyTorch library is developed to facilitate research, implementation, and testing of new variational algorithms. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Amir H. Abdi , Purang Abolmaesumi , Sidney Fels

With the wide spread of deep learning and gradient descent inspired optimization algorithms, differentiable programming has gained traction. Nowadays it has found applications in many different areas as well, such as scientific computing,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Pedro H. Azevedo de Amorim , Christopher Lam

Differentiable physics provides a new approach for modeling and understanding the physical systems by pairing the new technology of differentiable programming with classical numerical methods for physical simulation. We survey the rapidly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Bharath Ramsundar , Dilip Krishnamurthy , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

Despite decades of advancements, the simulation of fluids remains one of the most challenging areas of in scientific computing. Supported by the necessity of gradient information in deep learning, differentiable simulators have emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Aleksandra Franz , Hao Wei , Luca Guastoni , Nils Thuerey

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the PyTorch distributed data parallel module. PyTorch is a widely-adopted scientific computing package used in deep learning research and applications. Recent advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Shen Li , Yanli Zhao , Rohan Varma , Omkar Salpekar , Pieter Noordhuis , Teng Li , Adam Paszke , Jeff Smith , Brian Vaughan , Pritam Damania , Soumith Chintala

Differentiable simulators continue to push the state of the art across a range of domains including computational physics, robotics, and machine learning. Their main value is the ability to compute gradients of physical processes, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Rhys Newbury , Jack Collins , Kerry He , Jiahe Pan , Ingmar Posner , David Howard , Akansel Cosgun

Deep learning has had remarkable success in robotic perception, but its data-centric nature suffers when it comes to generalizing to ever-changing environments. By contrast, physics-based optimization generalizes better, but it does not…

Due to the complex physical properties of granular materials, research on robot learning for manipulating such materials predominantly either disregards the consideration of their physical characteristics or uses surrogate models to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Minglun Wei , Xintong Yang , Yu-Kun Lai , Seyed Amir Tafrishi , Ze Ji

Data-driven deep learning has been successfully applied to various computed tomographic reconstruction problems. The deep inference models may outperform existing analytical and iterative algorithms, especially in ill-posed CT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hyojin Kim , Kyle Champley

We introduce torchbearer, a model fitting library for pytorch aimed at researchers working on deep learning or differentiable programming. The torchbearer library provides a high level metric and callback API that can be used for a wide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ethan Harris , Matthew Painter , Jonathon Hare

Molecular dynamics simulations provide a mechanistic description of molecules by relying on empirical potentials. The quality and transferability of such potentials can be improved leveraging data-driven models derived with machine learning…

The differentiable programming paradigm is a cornerstone of modern scientific computing. It refers to numerical methods for computing the gradient of a numerical model's output. Many scientific models are based on differential equations,…

We present Kaolin, a PyTorch library aiming to accelerate 3D deep learning research. Kaolin provides efficient implementations of differentiable 3D modules for use in deep learning systems. With functionality to load and preprocess several…

We introduce physics informed neural networks -- neural networks that are trained to solve supervised learning tasks while respecting any given law of physics described by general nonlinear partial differential equations. In this two part…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Maziar Raissi , Paris Perdikaris , George Em Karniadakis

Quantum computing with qudits, an extension of qubits to multiple levels, is a research field less mature than qubit-based quantum computing. However, qudits can offer some advantages over qubits, by representing information with fewer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Tiago de Souza Farias , Lucas Friedrich , Jonas Maziero

Solving complex computer vision tasks by deep learning techniques relies on large amounts of (supervised) image data, typically unavailable in industrial environments. The lack of training data starts to impede the successful transfer of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Christoph Heindl , Lukas Brunner , Sebastian Zambal , Josef Scharinger

Deformable Object Manipulation (DOM) is of significant importance to both daily and industrial applications. Recent successes in differentiable physics simulators allow learning algorithms to train a policy with analytic gradients through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Siwei Chen , Yiqing Xu , Cunjun Yu , Linfeng Li , Xiao Ma , Zhongwen Xu , David Hsu

Deep learning has brought significant advancements to X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction, offering solutions to challenges arising from modern imaging technologies. These developments benefit from methods that combine classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linda-Sophie Schneider , Yipeng Sun , Chengze Ye , Markus Michen , Andreas Maier

Deep metric learning algorithms have a wide variety of applications, but implementing these algorithms can be tedious and time consuming. PyTorch Metric Learning is an open source library that aims to remove this barrier for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Kevin Musgrave , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

We present an open-source library of natively differentiable physics and robotics environments, accompanied by gradient-based control methods and a benchmark-ing suite. The introduced environments allow auto-differentiation through the…