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Automatic differentiation is everywhere, but there exists only minimal documentation of how it works in complex arithmetic beyond stating "derivatives in $\mathbb{C}^d$" $\cong$ "derivatives in $\mathbb{R}^{2d}$" and, at best, shallow…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Nicholas Krämer

Automatic differentiation, as implemented today, does not have a simple mathematical model adapted to the needs of modern machine learning. In this work we articulate the relationships between differentiation of programs as implemented in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Jerome Bolte , Edouard Pauwels

Based on a class of associative algebras with zero-divisors which are called real-like algebras by us, we introduce a way of defining automatic differentiation and present different ways of doing automatic differentiation to compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Keqin Liu

We introduce and study the filtration on the space of automorphic functions (in the everywhere unramified situation for the function field case) obtained by transferring the filtration on the spectral side of the classical Langlands…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Dennis Gaitsgory , Vincent Lafforgue , Sam Raskin

Automata learning is a technique that has successfully been applied in verification, with the automaton type varying depending on the application domain. Adaptations of automata learning algorithms for increasingly complex types of automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Gerco van Heerdt , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

Algorithmic differentiation (AD) tools allow to obtain gradient information of a continuously differentiable objective function in a computationally cheap way using the so-called backward mode. It is common practice to use the same tools…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Lukas Baumgärtner , Franz Bethke

For a real function, automatic differentiation is such a standard algorithm used to efficiently compute its gradient, that it is integrated in various neural network frameworks. However, despite the recent advances in using complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Chu Guo , Dario Poletti

In this article we introduce powerful tools and techniques from invariant theory to free analysis. This enables us to study free maps with involution. These maps are free noncommutative analogs of real analytic functions of several…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Igor Klep , Špela Špenko

The classical Lagrange formalism is generalized to the case of arbitrary stationary (but not necessarily conservative) dynamical systems. It is shown that the equations of motion for such systems can be derived in the standard ways from the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Alex Ushveridze

A unification of characteristic mode decomposition for all method-of-moment formulations of field integral equations describing free-space scattering is derived. The work is based on an algebraic link between impedance and transition…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Mats Gustafsson , Lukas Jelinek , Kurt Schab , Miloslav Capek

This contribution is concerned with the motion planning for underactuated Euler-Bernoulli beams. The design of the feedforward control is based on a differential parametrization of the beam, where all system variables are expressed in terms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Bernd Kolar , Nicole Gehring , Markus Schöberl

The rules of d-separation provide a framework for deriving conditional independence facts from model structure. However, this theory only applies to simple directed graphical models. We introduce relational d-separation, a theory for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Marc Maier , David Jensen

A generalization of classical mechanics is obtained from a complex parametrization of the phase space. The formalism supports complex Hamiltonian functions describing non-conservative classical mechanical systems. A quantization scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sergio Giardino

Current probabilistic programming languages and tools tightly couple model representations with specific inference algorithms, preventing experimentation with novel representations or mixed discrete-continuous models. We introduce a factor…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ole Fenske , Maximilian Popko , Sebastian Bader , Thomas Kirste

Automatic differentiation, also known as backpropagation, AD, autodiff, or algorithmic differentiation, is a popular technique for computing derivatives of computer programs accurately and efficiently. Sometimes, however, the derivatives…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Jan Hückelheim , Harshitha Menon , William Moses , Bruce Christianson , Paul Hovland , Laurent Hascoët

We present a continuous formulation of machine learning, as a problem in the calculus of variations and differential-integral equations, in the spirit of classical numerical analysis. We demonstrate that conventional machine learning models…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Weinan E , Chao Ma , Lei Wu

This is a short introduction of the exterior form formalism focus on its applications in physics and then mostly aimed to physics students. As a rule of a game played here we never use a coordinate frame neither in the definitions nor in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Raphael Ducatez

Automatic differentiation (AD) is an ensemble of techniques that allow to evaluate accurate numerical derivatives of a mathematical function expressed in a computer programming language. In this paper we use AD for stating and solving solid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Andrea Vigliotti , Ferdinando Auricchio

This paper presents an artificial intelligence algorithm that can be used to derive formulas from various scientific disciplines called automatic derivation machine. First, the formula is abstractly expressed as a multiway tree model, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-16 MinZhong Luo , Li Liu

We propose extensions to Fortran which integrate forward and reverse Automatic Differentiation (AD) directly into the programming model. Irrespective of implementation technology, embedding AD constructs directly into the language extends…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Alexey Radul , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Jeffrey Mark Siskind