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The formation of the large-scale structure, the evolution and distribution of galaxies, quasars, and dark matter on cosmological scales, requires numerical simulations. Differentiable simulations provide gradients of the cosmological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yin Li , Libin Lu , Chirag Modi , Drew Jamieson , Yucheng Zhang , Yu Feng , Wenda Zhou , Ngai Pok Kwan , François Lanusse , Leslie Greengard

We present a method for efficient differentiable simulation of articulated bodies. This enables integration of articulated body dynamics into deep learning frameworks, and gradient-based optimization of neural networks that operate on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Yi-Ling Qiao , Junbang Liang , Vladlen Koltun , Ming C. Lin

We introduce JAX MD, a software package for performing differentiable physics simulations with a focus on molecular dynamics. JAX MD includes a number of physics simulation environments, as well as interaction potentials and neural networks…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Samuel S. Schoenholz , Ekin D. Cubuk

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been used successfully in many conventional machine learning applications and is considered to be a useful alternative to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as a deep learning optimizer.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Junxiang Wang , Fuxun Yu , Xiang Chen , Liang Zhao

We demonstrate a GPU-accelerated nested sampling framework for efficient high-dimensional Bayesian inference in cosmology. Using JAX-based neural emulators and likelihoods for cosmic microwave background and cosmic shear analyses, our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Toby Lovick , David Yallup , Davide Piras , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Will Handley

A computational fluid dynamics code is differentiated using algorithmic differentiation (AD) in both tangent and adjoint modes. The two novelties of the present approach are 1) the adjoint code is obtained by letting the AD tool Tapenade…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 J. I. Cardesa , L. Hascoët , C. Airiau

Dynamic optimization is currently limited by sensitivity computations that require information from full forward and adjoint wave fields. Since the forward and adjoint solutions are computed in opposing time directions, the forward solution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Leon Herrmann , Tim Bürchner , László Kudela , Stefan Kollmannsberger

Optimizing shapes and topology of physical devices is crucial for both scientific and technological advancements, given its wide-ranging implications across numerous industries and research areas. Innovations in shape and topology…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Alexander Luce , Rasoul Alaee , Fabian Knorr , Florian Marquardt

In this paper, we present a new multibody physics simulation framework that utilizes the subsystem-based structure and the Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier (ADMM). The major challenge in simulating complex high degree of freedom…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jeongmin Lee , Minji Lee , Dongjun Lee

Recent advances in neural-network architecture allow for seamless integration of convex optimization problems as differentiable layers in an end-to-end trainable neural network. Integrating medium and large scale quadratic programs into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Andrew Butler , Roy Kwon

Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method, which allows for the efficient computation of gradients, has…

We present DiffXPBD, a novel and efficient analytical formulation for the differentiable position-based simulation of compliant constrained dynamics (XPBD). Our proposed method allows computation of gradients of numerous parameters with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Tuur Stuyck , Hsiao-yu Chen

We advocate for a new paradigm of cosmological likelihood-based inference, leveraging recent developments in machine learning and its underlying technology, to accelerate Bayesian inference in high-dimensional settings. Specifically, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Davide Piras , Alicja Polanska , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen

Imaging Earth structure or seismic sources from seismic data involves minimizing a target misfit function, and is commonly solved through gradient-based optimization. The adjoint-state method has been developed to compute the gradient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Weiqiang Zhu , Kailai Xu , Eric Darve , Gregory C. Beroza

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

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful operator splitting technique for solving structured convex optimization problems. Due to its relatively low per-iteration computational cost and ability to exploit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Michel Schubiger , Goran Banjac , John Lygeros

Differentiable programming has emerged as a powerful paradigm in scientific computing, enabling automatic differentiation through simulation pipelines and naturally supporting both forward and inverse modeling. We present JAX-MPM, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Honghui Du , QiZhi He

Differentiable programming, enabled by automatic differentiation (AD), provides a robust framework for gradient-based optimization in computational plasma physics. While optimization is often only used towards design, we demonstrate that it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 A. S. Joglekar , A. G. R. Thomas , A. L. Milder , K. G. Miller , J. P. Palastro , D. H. Froula

This paper presents a novel adjoint solver for differentiable fluid simulation based on bidirectional flow maps. Our key observation is that the forward fluid solver and its corresponding backward, adjoint solver share the same flow map as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhiqi Li , Jinjin He , Barnabás Börcsök , Taiyuan Zhang , Duowen Chen , Tao Du , Ming C. Lin , Greg Turk , Bo Zhu

We demonstrate a practical differentiable programming approach for acoustic inverse problems through two applications: admittance estimation and shape optimization for resonance damping. First, we show that JAX-FEM's automatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Nikolas Borrel-Jensen , Josiah Bjorgaard
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