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Many interesting phenomena are characterized by the complex interaction of different physical processes, each often best modeled numerically via a specific approach. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of an…

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An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested experimentally for solving stochastic optimization problems in which the decision variables are constrained to satisfy equations defined by deterministic, smooth, and nonlinear functions. It is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

QUESO stands for Quantification of Uncertainty for Estimation, Simulation and Optimization and consists of algorithms and C++ classes intended for research in uncertainty quantification, including the solution of statistical inverse problem…

We introduce cilantro, an open-source C++ library for geometric and general-purpose point cloud data processing. The library provides functionality that covers low-level point cloud operations, spatial reasoning, various methods for point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Konstantinos Zampogiannis , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

This paper introduces Jensen, an easily extensible and scalable toolkit for production-level machine learning and convex optimization. Jensen implements a framework of convex (or loss) functions, convex optimization algorithms (including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Rishabh Iyer , John T. Halloran , Kai Wei

We introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads. Efficient implementations of tensor operators, such as matrix multiplication and high dimensional convolution, are key enablers of effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Tianqi Chen , Lianmin Zheng , Eddie Yan , Ziheng Jiang , Thierry Moreau , Luis Ceze , Carlos Guestrin , Arvind Krishnamurthy

We propose the QHyper library, which is aimed at researchers working on computational experiments with a variety of quantum combinatorial optimization solvers. The library offers a simple and extensible interface for formulating…

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Through recent progress in hardware development, quantum computers have advanced to the point where benchmarking of (heuristic) quantum algorithms at scale is within reach. Particularly in combinatorial optimization - where most algorithms…

Combinatorial optimization problems are prevalent across a wide variety of domains. These problems are often nuanced, their optimal solutions might not be efficiently obtainable, and they may require lots of time and compute resources to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Akshay Sathiya , Rohit Pandey

SQP and interior-point methods (also referred to as Lagrange-Newton methods) typically share key algorithmic components, such as strategies for computing descent directions and mechanisms that promote global convergence. Building on this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Charlie Vanaret , Sven Leyffer

The realization of novel technological opportunities given by computational and autonomous materials design requires efficient and effective frameworks. For more than two decades, aflow++ (Automatic-Flow Framework for Materials Discovery)…

We present solidfmm, a highly optimised C++ library for the solid harmonics as they are needed in fast multipole methods. The library provides efficient, vectorised implementations of the translation operations M2M, M2L, and L2L, and is…

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Open-source libraries are have a catalytic role in research pipelines, where new methods must be compared against up-to-date baselines. We present the GLobal Optimization Benchmark (GLOBe) modular Python library that unifies classical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Gaëtan Serré , Argyris Kalogeratos , Nicolas Vayatis

Existing GPU libraries often struggle to fully exploit the parallel resources and on-chip memory (SRAM) of GPUs when chaining multiple GPU functions as individual kernels. While Kernel Fusion (KF) techniques like Horizontal Fusion (HF) and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Oscar Amoros , Albert Andaluz , Johnny Nunez , Antonio J. Pena

Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) have become ubiquitous in scientific computing. However, writing efficient GPU kernels can be challenging due to the need for careful code tuning. To automatically explore the kernel optimization space,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Stijn Heldens , Ben van Werkhoven

Modern software systems heavily use C/C++ based libraries. Because of the weak memory model of C/C++, libraries may suffer from vulnerabilities which can expose the applications to potential attacks. For example, a very large number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Girish Mururu , Chris Porter , Prithayan Barua , Santosh Pande

In this paper, we consider smooth convex optimization problems with simple constraints and inexactness in the oracle information such as value, partial or directional derivatives of the objective function. We introduce a unifying framework,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Alexander Tiurin , Vladimir Zholobov

This paper introduces PolyDiM, an open-source C++ library tailored for the development and implementation of polytopal discretization methods for partial differential equations. The library provides robust and modular tools to support…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Gioana Teora , Fabio Vicini

Quantum++ is a modern general-purpose multi-threaded quantum computing library written in C++11 and composed solely of header files. The library is not restricted to qubit systems or specific quantum information processing tasks, being…

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