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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

Artificial intelligence has recently experienced remarkable advances, fueled by large models, vast datasets, accelerated hardware, and, last but not least, the transformative power of differentiable programming. This new programming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Mathieu Blondel , Vincent Roulet

We develop domain theory in constructive and predicative univalent foundations (also known as homotopy type theory). That we work predicatively means that we do not assume Voevodsky's propositional resizing axioms. Our work is constructive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Tom de Jong

Automatic Differentiation (AD) has become a dominant technique in ML. AD frameworks have first been implemented for imperative languages using tapes. Meanwhile, functional implementations of AD have been developed, often based on dual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Timon Böhler , David Richter , Mira Mezini

We present a new piecewise linear regression methodology that utilizes fitting a difference of convex functions (DC functions) to the data. These are functions $f$ that may be represented as the difference $\phi_1 - \phi_2$ for a choice of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-17 Ali Siahkamari , Aditya Gangrade , Brian Kulis , Venkatesh Saligrama

Domain specific languages have successfully been used in a variety of fields to cleanly express scientific problems as well as to simplify implementation and performance opti- mization on different computer architectures. Although a large…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Navjot Kukreja , Mathias Louboutin , Felippe Vieira , Fabio Luporini , Michael Lange , Gerard Gorman

The conformable derivative has been promoted in numerous publications as a new fractional derivative operator. This article provides a critical reassessment of this claim. We demonstrate that the conformable derivative is not a fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Aziz El Ghazouani , Fouad Ibrahim Abdou Amir , Khoulane Mohamed , M'hamed Elomari

Fractional order derivatives and integrals (differintegrals) are viewed from a frequency-domain perspective using the formalism of Riesz, providing a computational tool as well as a way to interpret the operations in the frequency domain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-09 William A. Sethares , Selçuk Ş. Bayın

The main goal of this paper is to apply the machinery of variational analysis and generalized differentiation to study infinite horizon stochastic dynamic programming (DP) with discrete time in the Banach space setting without convexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Nobusumi Sagara

In this work we present work in progress on functionality duplication detection in logic programs. Eliminating duplicated functionality recently became prominent in context of refactoring. We describe a quantitative approach that allows to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexander Serebrenik , Wim Vanhoof

The field of declarative stream programming (discrete time, clocked synchronous, modular, data-centric) is divided between the data-flow graph paradigm favored by domain experts, and the functional reactive paradigm favored by academics. In…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Baltasar Trancón y Widemann , Markus Lepper

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,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Jeff Bezanson , Jake Bolewski , Jiahao Chen

In 2023 in (3), Uwe finds the explicit form of the map which is which is settled in ZN of finite functional degree and14 discusses how to compute its usual degree w.r.t to the derivative in the linear form, i.e. the product of ones formed…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Yunting Iris Gao

While transistor density is still increasing, clock speeds are not, motivating the search for new parallel architectures. One approach is to completely abandon the concept of CPU -- and thus serial imperative programming -- and instead to…

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Functional depth is used for ranking functional observations from most outlying to most typical. The ranks produced by functional depth have been proposed as the basis for functional classifiers, rank tests, and data visualization…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-02 James P. Long , Jianhua Z. Huang

The paper concerns the investigation of nonconvex and nondifferentiable integral functionals on general Banach spaces, which may not be reflexive and/or separable. Considering two major subdifferentials of variational analysis, we derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-28 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Nobusumi Sagara

We present a simple technique for semantic, open logical relations arguments about languages with recursive types, which, as we show, follows from a principled foundation in categorical semantics. We demonstrate how it can be used to give a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Matthijs Vákár

Using the notion of conservative gradient, we provide a simple model to estimate the computational costs of the backward and forward modes of algorithmic differentiation for a wide class of nonsmooth programs. The overhead complexity of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Jérôme Bolte , Ryan Boustany , Edouard Pauwels , Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu

This paper presents a general study of one-dimensional differentiability for functionals defined on convex domains that are not necessarily open. The local approximation is carried out using affine functionals, as opposed to linear…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Simone Cerreia-Vioglio , Fabio Maccheroni , Massimo Marinacci , Luigi Montrucchio , Lorenzo Stanca

We present the Unified Form Language (UFL), which is a domain-specific language for representing weak formulations of partial differential equations with a view to numerical approximation. Features of UFL include support for variational…

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