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The auto differentiable simulation is a type of simulation that outputs of the simulation include not only the simulation result itself, but also their derivatives with respect to various input parameters. It provides an efficient method to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Ji Qianga , Yue Hao , Allen Qiang , Jinyu Wan

Automatic differentiation (AD) in reverse mode (RAD) is a central component of deep learning and other uses of large-scale optimization. Commonly used RAD algorithms such as backpropagation, however, are complex and stateful, hindering deep…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Conal Elliott

Per-example gradient clipping is a key algorithmic step that enables practical differential private (DP) training for deep learning models. The choice of clipping threshold R, however, is vital for achieving high accuracy under DP. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zhiqi Bu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

Reverse engineering of music mixes aims to uncover how dry source signals are processed and combined to produce a final mix. We extend the prior works to reflect the compositional nature of mixing and search for a graph of audio processors.…

Parallelization schemes are essential in order to exploit the full benefits of multi-core architectures. In said architectures, the most comprehensive parallelization API is OpenMP. However, the introduction of correct and optimal OpenMP…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Idan Mosseri , Lee-or Alon , Re'em Harel , Gal Oren

Since the days of OpenMP 1.0 computer hardware has become more complex, typically by specializing compute units for coarse- and fine-grained parallelism in incrementally deeper hierarchies of parallelism. Newer versions of OpenMP reacted by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Michael Kruse

Reverse-mode differentiation is used for optimization, but it introduces references, which break the purity of the underlying programs, making them notoriously harder to optimize. We present a reverse-mode differentiation on a purely…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Mathieu Huot , Amir Shaikhha

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 aim of parallel computing is to increase an application performance by executing the application on multiple processors. OpenMP is an API that supports multi platform shared memory programming model and shared-memory programs are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Vibha Rajput , Alok Katiyar

Nonlinear (deterministic and stochastic) optimal control problems are often solved on embedded devices using first-order numerical optimisation methods. The gradient computation accounts for a significant part of the computation cost per…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Jie Lin , Ruairi Moran , Pantelis Sopasakis

Backpropagation is a classic automatic differentiation algorithm computing the gradient of functions specified by a certain class of simple, first-order programs, called computational graphs. It is a fundamental tool in several fields, most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alois Brunel , Damiano Mazza , Michele Pagani

How does one compile derivatives of tensor programs, such that the resulting code is purely functional (hence easier to optimize and parallelize) and provably efficient relative to the original program? We show that naively differentiating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Gilbert Bernstein , Michael Mara , Tzu-Mao Li , Dougal Maclaurin , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

The parallel and distributed processing are becoming de facto industry standard, and a large part of the current research is targeted on how to make computing scalable and distributed, dynamically, without allocating the resources on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Rajendra Purohit , K R Chowdhary , S D Purohit

Speculative backpropagation has emerged as a promising technique to accelerate the training of neural networks by overlapping the forward and backward passes. Leveraging speculative weight updates when error gradients fall within a specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sed Centeno , Christopher Sprague , Arnab A Purkayastha , Ray Simar , Neeraj Magotra

The problem is to evaluate a polynomial in several variables and its gradient at a power series truncated to some finite degree with multiple double precision arithmetic. To compensate for the cost overhead of multiple double precision and…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jan Verschelde

Differentiable programming is a fresh programming paradigm which composes parameterized algorithmic components and trains them using automatic differentiation (AD). The concept emerges from deep learning but is not only limited to training…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-11 Hai-Jun Liao , Jin-Guo Liu , Lei Wang , Tao Xiang

In mathematics and computer algebra, automatic differentiation (AD) is a set of techniques to evaluate the derivative of a function specified by a computer program. AD exploits the fact that every computer program, no matter how…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Vassil Vassilev , Aleksandr Efremov , Oksana Shadura

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) represent a class of powerful generative models. Despite their success, the inference of DPMs is expensive since it generally needs to iterate over thousands of timesteps. A key problem in the inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Fan Bao , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Does the use of auto-differentiation yield reasonable updates for deep neural networks (DNNs)? Specifically, when DNNs are designed to adhere to neural ODE architectures, can we trust the gradients provided by auto-differentiation? Through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yewei Xu , Shi Chen , Qin Li

OpenMP is the de facto API for parallel programming in HPC applications. These programs are often computed in data centers, where energy consumption is a major issue. Whereas previous work has focused almost entirely on performance, we here…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Henrik Valter , Axel Karlsson , Miquel Pericàs