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Differentiable optimization has attracted significant research interest, particularly for quadratic programming (QP). Existing approaches for differentiating the solution of a QP with respect to its defining parameters often rely on…

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In this article, we propose an interval constraint programming method for globally solving catalog-based categorical optimization problems. It supports catalogs of arbitrary size and properties of arbitrary dimension, and does not require…

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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…

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Recent years have witnessed the booming of various differentiable optimization algorithms. These algorithms exhibit different execution patterns, and their execution needs massive computational resources that go beyond a single CPU and GPU.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jie Ren , Xidong Feng , Bo Liu , Xuehai Pan , Yao Fu , Luo Mai , Yaodong Yang

We present ForwardDiff, a Julia package for forward-mode automatic differentiation (AD) featuring performance competitive with low-level languages like C++. Unlike recently developed AD tools in other popular high-level languages such as…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Jarrett Revels , Miles Lubin , Theodore Papamarkou

Solving massive-scale optimization problems requires scalable first-order methods with low per-iteration cost. This tutorial highlights a shift in optimization: using differentiable programming not only to execute algorithms but to learn…

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This paper proposes integrating Aspect-oriented Programming (AOP) into Julia, a language widely used in scientific and High-Performance Computing (HPC). AOP enhances software modularity by encapsulating cross-cutting concerns, such as…

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We present FrankWolfe.jl, an open-source implementation of several popular Frank-Wolfe and Conditional Gradients variants for first-order constrained optimization. The package is designed with flexibility and high-performance in mind,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Mathieu Besançon , Alejandro Carderera , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper presents the Julia package CCOpt, built on top of the interior-point solver MadNLP. CCOpt implements a suite of algorithms for Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints (MPCCs). The solver additionally comes with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Anton Pozharskiy , François Pacaud , Moritz Diehl , Armin Nurkanović

Optimization techniques play an important role in several scientific and real-world applications, thus becoming of great interest for the community. As a consequence, a number of open-source libraries are available in the literature, which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Joao Paulo Papa , Gustavo Henrique Rosa , Douglas Rodrigues , Xin-She Yang

Motivation: Estimating model parameters from experimental observations is one of the key challenges in systems biology and can be computationally very expensive. While the Julia programming language was recently developed as a high-level…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-06 Paul F. Lang , Sungho Shin , Victor M. Zavala

This paper introduces \textsc{FuzzyLogic.jl}, a Julia library to perform fuzzy inference. The library is fully open-source and released under a permissive license. The core design principles of the library are: user-friendliness,…

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Differentiable programming has recently received much interest as a paradigm that facilitates taking gradients of computer programs. While the corresponding flexible gradient-based optimization approaches so far have been used predominantly…

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High-dimensional nonlinear optimization problems subject to nonlinear constraints can appear in several contexts including constrained physical and dynamical systems, statistical estimation, and other numerical models. Feasible optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Kevin S. Silmore , James W. Swan

Technical computing is a challenging application area for programming languages to address. This is evinced by the unusually large number of specialized languages in the area (e.g. MATLAB, R), and the complexity of common software stacks,…

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We present StochasticPrograms.jl, a user-friendly and powerful open-source framework for stochastic programming written in the Julia language. The framework includes both modeling tools and structure-exploiting optimization algorithms.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Martin Biel , Mikael Johansson

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have accelerated research on automated optimization modeling. While real-world decision-making is inherently uncertain, most existing work has focused on deterministic optimization with known…

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We present an open source computational framework geared towards the efficient numerical investigation of open quantum systems written in the Julia programming language. Built exclusively in Julia and based on standard quantum optics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Sebastian Krämer , David Plankensteiner , Laurin Ostermann , Helmut Ritsch

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…

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