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Computation methods for solving entropy-regularized reward optimization -- a class of problems widely used for fine-tuning generative models -- have advanced rapidly. Among those, Adjoint Matching (AM, Domingo-Enrich et al., 2025) has…

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The adjoint method is an efficient way to numerically compute gradients in optimization problems with constraints, but is only formulated to differentiable cost and constraint functions on real variables. With the introduction of complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Andrew Zheng , Adam R. Stinchcombe

Neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs) have emerged as a novel network architecture that bridges dynamical systems and deep learning. However, the gradient obtained with the continuous adjoint method in the vanilla neural ODE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Hong Zhang , Wenjun Zhao

In this paper, an adjoint solver for the multigrid in time software library XBraid is presented. XBraid provides a non-intrusive approach for simulating unsteady dynamics on multiple processors while parallelizing not only in space but also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Stefanie Günther , Nicolas R. Gauger , Jacob B. Schroder

Recent developments have created differentiable physics simulators designed for machine learning pipelines that can be accelerated on a GPU. While these can simulate biomechanical models, these opportunities have not been exploited for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 R. James Cotton

Automated code generation allows for a separation between the development of a model, expressed via a domain specific language, and lower level implementation details. Algorithmic differentiation can be applied symbolically at the level of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-27 James R. Maddison

The sharp increasing in fabrication capabilities of nanomaterials, and complex structures such as meta-surfaces and metalens, has opened to the possibility of employing them for accurately control the electromagnetic field, beyond the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Vincenzo Mottola , Luisa Faella , Carlo Forestiere , Antonello Tamburrino

Reduced-order modeling lies at the interface of numerical analysis and data-driven scientific computing, providing principled ways to compress high-fidelity simulations in science and engineering. We propose a training framework that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Donglin Liu , Francisco García Atienza , Mengwu Guo

Simulating the time evolution of physical systems is pivotal in many scientific and engineering problems. An open challenge in simulating such systems is their multi-resolution dynamics: a small fraction of the system is extremely dynamic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tailin Wu , Takashi Maruyama , Qingqing Zhao , Gordon Wetzstein , Jure Leskovec

Simulation-based optimization using agent-based models is typically carried out under the assumption that the gradient describing the sensitivity of the simulation output to the input cannot be evaluated directly. To still apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Philipp Andelfinger

Data-driven deep learning has been successfully applied to various computed tomographic reconstruction problems. The deep inference models may outperform existing analytical and iterative algorithms, especially in ill-posed CT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hyojin Kim , Kyle Champley

As more and more multiphysics effects are entering the field of CFD simulations, this raises the question how they can be accurately captured in gradient computations for shape optimization. The latter has been successfully enriched over…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Ole Burghardt , Nicolas R. Gauger

Distributed multi-party learning provides an effective approach for training a joint model with scattered data under legal and practical constraints. However, due to the quagmire of a skewed distribution of data labels across participants…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Maoguo Gong , Yuan Gao , Yue Wu , A. K. Qin

Reconstructing the Gaussian initial conditions at the beginning of the Universe from the survey data in a forward modeling framework is a major challenge in cosmology. This requires solving a high dimensional inverse problem with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Chirag Modi , François Lanusse , Uroš Seljak , David N. Spergel , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

In this paper, we introduce proximal gradient temporal difference learning, which provides a principled way of designing and analyzing true stochastic gradient temporal difference learning algorithms. We show how gradient TD (GTD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Bo Liu , Ian Gemp , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Ji Liu , Sridhar Mahadevan , Marek Petrik

Differentiable simulation is a promising toolkit for fast gradient-based policy optimization and system identification. However, existing approaches to differentiable simulation have largely tackled scenarios where obtaining smooth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-04 Rika Antonova , Jingyun Yang , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Jeannette Bohg

This document is a hands-on, comprehensive guide to deep learning in the realm of physical simulations. Rather than just theory, we emphasize practical application: every concept is paired with interactive Jupyter notebooks to get you up…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 N. Thuerey , B. Holzschuh , P. Holl , G. Kohl , M. Lino , Q. Liu , P. Schnell , F. Trost

Inexact alternating direction multiplier methods (ADMMs) are developed for solving general separable convex optimization problems with a linear constraint and with an objective that is the sum of smooth and nonsmooth terms. The approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-12 William W. Hager , Hongchao Zhang

We leverage physics-embedded differentiable graph network simulators (GNS) to accelerate particulate and fluid simulations to solve forward and inverse problems. GNS represents the domain as a graph with particles as nodes and learned…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Krishna Kumar , Yongjin Choi

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) and its distributed version have been widely used in machine learning. In the iterations of ADMM, model updates using local private data and model exchanges among agents impose critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Jiahao Ding , Jingyi Wang , Guannan Liang , Jinbo Bi , Miao Pan