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Automatic differentiation (AD) is conventionally understood as a family of distinct algorithms, rooted in two "modes" -- forward and reverse -- which are typically presented (and implemented) separately. Can there be only one? Following up…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Alexey Radul , Adam Paszke , Roy Frostig , Matthew Johnson , Dougal Maclaurin

No single Automatic Differentiation (AD) system is the optimal choice for all problems. This means informed selection of an AD system and combinations can be a problem-specific variable that can greatly impact performance. In the Julia…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Frank Schäfer , Mohamed Tarek , Lyndon White , Chris Rackauckas

The need to efficiently calculate first- and higher-order derivatives of increasingly complex models expressed in Python has stressed or exceeded the capabilities of available tools. In this work, we explore techniques from the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Bart van Merriënboer , Dan Moldovan , Alexander B Wiltschko

Automatic differentiation (AD), a technique for constructing new programs which compute the derivative of an original program, has become ubiquitous throughout scientific computing and deep learning due to the improved performance afforded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Gaurav Arya , Moritz Schauer , Frank Schäfer , Chris Rackauckas

We review the current state of automatic differentiation (AD) for array programming in machine learning (ML), including the different approaches such as operator overloading (OO) and source transformation (ST) used for AD, graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Bart van Merriënboer , Olivier Breuleux , Arnaud Bergeron , Pascal Lamblin

We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

Deep learning has seen tremendous success over the past decade in computer vision, machine translation, and gameplay. This success rests in crucial ways on gradient-descent optimization and the ability to learn parameters of a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Fei Wang , Daniel Zheng , James Decker , Xilun Wu , Grégory M. Essertel , Tiark Rompf

Fast, gradient-based structural optimization has long been limited to a highly restricted subset of problems -- namely, density-based compliance minimization -- for which gradients can be analytically derived. For other objective functions,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Keith J. Lee , Yijiang Huang , Caitlin T. Mueller

We present semantic correctness proofs of automatic differentiation (AD). We consider a forward-mode AD method on a higher-order language with algebraic data types and we characterise it as the unique structure-preserving macro given a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mathieu Huot , Sam Staton , Matthijs Vákár

The deep learning community has devised a diverse set of methods to make gradient optimization, using large datasets, of large and highly complex models with deeply cascaded nonlinearities, practical. Taken as a whole, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Atılım Güneş Baydin , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Jeffrey Mark Siskind

Gradient descent is an important class of iterative algorithms for minimizing convex functions. Classically, gradient descent has been a sequential and synchronous process. Distributed and asynchronous variants of gradient descent have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Yun Kuen Cheung , Richard Cole

A C++ library for sensitivity analysis of optimisation problems involving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) enabled by automatic differentiation (AD) and SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple data) vectorization is presented. The discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Rui Martins , Evgeny Lakshtanov

We present a framework for calibration of parameters in elastoplastic constitutive models that is based on the use of automatic differentiation (AD). The model calibration problem is posed as a partial differential equation-constrained…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Daniel Thomas Seidl , Brian Neal Granzow

In this paper, we present CT-AGD (Curvature-Tuned Accelerated Gradient Descent), an optimization method for non-convex optimization problems in deep learning training tasks. CT-AGD is a general boosting procedure that accelerates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Manuel Graca , L. Miguel Silveira , Arlindo Oliveira , Frank Liu

We present a systematic analysis of automatic differentiation (AD) applications in astrophysics, identifying domains where gradient-based optimization could provide significant computational advantages. Building on our previous work with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Marc Bara

Modelers use automatic differentiation (AD) of computation graphs to implement complex Deep Learning models without defining gradient computations. Stochastic AD extends AD to stochastic computation graphs with sampling steps, which arise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-27 Emile van Krieken , Jakub M. Tomczak , Annette ten Teije

This paper presents a novel optimization for differentiable programming named coarsening optimization. It offers a systematic way to synergize symbolic differentiation and algorithmic differentiation (AD). Through it, the granularity of the…

Continual Learning (CL) aims to enable models to sequentially learn multiple tasks without forgetting previous knowledge. Recent studies have shown that optimizing towards flatter loss minima can improve model generalization. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yanan Chen , Tieliang Gong , Yunjiao Zhang , Wen Wen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have impressive data fusion and reasoning capabilities for autonomous driving (AD). However, training LLMs for AD faces significant challenges including high computation transmission costs, and privacy concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tianao Xiang , Mingjian Zhi , Yuanguo Bi , Lin Cai , Yuhao Chen

General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) computing plays a transformative role in deep learning and machine learning by leveraging the computational advantages of parallel processing. Through the power of Compute Unified Device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ming Li , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Yizhu Wen , Qian Niu , Xinyuan Song , Zekun Jiang , Junyu Liu , Benji Peng , Sen Zhang , Xuanhe Pan , Jiawei Xu , Jinlang Wang , Keyu Chen , Caitlyn Heqi Yin , Pohsun Feng , Ming Liu