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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

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive supervised classification performance in many tasks including image recognition, speech recognition, and sequence to sequence learning. However, this success has not been translated to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Arvind Neelakantan , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever

Gradient based optimization methods are the established state-of-the-art paradigm to study strongly entangled quantum systems in two dimensions with Projected Entangled Pair States. However, the key ingredient, the gradient itself, has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Anna Francuz , Norbert Schuch , Bram Vanhecke

The ability to differentiate through optimization problems has unlocked numerous applications, from optimization-based layers in machine learning models to complex design problems formulated as bilevel programs. It has been shown that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Lucas Fuentes Valenzuela , Robin Brown , Marco Pavone

Tensor networks provide compact and scalable representations of high-dimensional data, enabling efficient computation in fields such as quantum physics, numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), and machine learning. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Julia Wei , Alec Dektor , Chungen Shen , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang

Differentiable programming has revolutionised optimisation by enabling efficient gradient-based training of complex models, such as Deep Neural Networks (NNs) with billions and trillions of parameters. However, traditional Evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Beatrice F. R. Citterio , Andrea Tangherloni

Bilevel Optimization Programming is used to model complex and conflicting interactions between agents, for example in Robust AI or Privacy-preserving AI. Integrating bilevel mathematical programming within deep learning is thus an essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Francesco Alesiani

In this paper, a topology optimization framework utilizing automatic differentiation is presented as an efficient way for solving 2D density-based topology optimization problem by calculating gradients through the fully differentiable…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Liang Chen , Herman M. H. Shen

Feature propagation in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be associated to nonlinear discrete dynamical systems. The novelty, in this paper, lies in letting the discretization parameter (time step-size) vary from layer to layer, which needs to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Harbir Antil , Hugo Díaz , Evelyn Herberg

We introduce a novel framework for simulating spin models using differentiable programming, an approach that leverages the advancements in machine learning and computational efficiency. We focus on three distinct spin systems: the Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-28 Tiago de Souza Farias , Vitor Vaz Schultz , José Carlos Merino Mombach , Jonas Maziero

In the context of the optimization of Deep Neural Networks, we propose to rescale the learning rate using a new technique of automatic differentiation. This technique relies on the computation of the {\em curvature}, a second order…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Frédéric de Gournay , Alban Gossard

Many engineering problems involve learning hidden dynamics from indirect observations, where the physical processes are described by systems of partial differential equations (PDE). Gradient-based optimization methods are considered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Kailai Xu , Dongzhuo Li , Eric Darve , Jerry M. Harris

We present differentiable predictive control (DPC), a method for learning constrained neural control policies for linear systems with probabilistic performance guarantees. We employ automatic differentiation to obtain direct policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Jan Drgona , Aaron Tuor , Draguna Vrabie

This paper proposes a gradient descent based optimization method that relies on automatic differentiation for the computation of gradients. The method uses tools and techniques originally developed in the field of artificial neural networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Georg Kordowich , Johann Jaeger

Hybrid tensor networks offer a promising route to enhance the expressivity of classical tensor network methods by incorporating quantum states prepared on a quantum computer. Existing approaches are limited by the variational optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Julian Schuhmacher , Alberto Baiardi , Francesco Tacchino , Ivano Tavernelli

We proposed a framework for solving inverse problems in differential equations based on neural networks and automatic differentiation. Neural networks are used to approximate hidden fields. We analyze the source of errors in the framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Kailai Xu , Eric Darve

The emergence of variational quantum applications has led to the development of automatic differentiation techniques in quantum computing. Recently, Zhu et al. (PLDI 2020) have formulated differentiable quantum programming with bounded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying , Xiaodi Wu

Measurement and analysis of high energetic particles for scientific, medical or industrial applications is a complex procedure, requiring the design of sophisticated detector and data processing systems. The development of adaptive and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Tobias Kortus , Ralf Keidel , Nicolas R. Gauger

Adaptive inference is a promising technique to improve the computational efficiency of deep models at test time. In contrast to static models which use the same computation graph for all instances, adaptive networks can dynamically adjust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hao Li , Hong Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Ruigang Yang , Gao Huang

The notion of a Moreau envelope is central to the analysis of first-order optimization algorithms for machine learning. Yet, it has not been developed and extended to be applied to a deep network and, more broadly, to a machine learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Vincent Roulet , Zaid Harchaoui