English
Related papers

Related papers: A dual number formulation to efficiently compute h…

200 papers

We propose an iterative method for nonlinear semidefinite programs with box constraints. The search direction in the proposed method utilizes the distance from the current point to the boundary of a feasible set. The computation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Akihiko Komatsu , Makoto Yamashita

We derive methods to compute higher order differentials (Hessians and Hessian-vector products) of the rendering operator. Our approach is based on importance sampling of a convolution that represents the differentials of rendering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zican Wang , Michael Fischer , Tobias Ritschel

Using backpropagation to compute gradients of objective functions for optimization has remained a mainstay of machine learning. Backpropagation, or reverse-mode differentiation, is a special case within the general family of automatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Atılım Güneş Baydin , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Don Syme , Frank Wood , Philip Torr

For the fractional Laplacian of variable order, an efficient and accurate numerical evaluation in multi-dimension is a challenge for the nature of a singular integral. We propose a simple and easy-to-implement finite difference scheme for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Zhaopeng Hao , Siyuan Shi , Zhongqiang Zhang , Rui Du

Derivative-based algorithms are ubiquitous in statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. Automatic differentiation offers an algorithmic way to efficiently evaluate these derivatives from computer programs that execute relevant…

Computation · Statistics 2022-03-01 Charles C. Margossian , Michael Betancourt

This contribution deals with identification of fractional-order dynamical systems. We consider systems whose mathematical description is a three-member differential equation in which the orders of derivatives can be real numbers. We give a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Dorcak , V. Lesko , I. Kostial

Stochastic differential equations (sdes) play an important role in physics but existing numerical methods for solving such equations are of low accuracy and poor stability. A general strategy for developing accurate and efficient schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joshua Wilkie

The fact that the first variation of a variational functional must vanish along an extremizer is the base of most effective solution schemes to solve problems of the calculus of variations. We generalize the method to variational problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Shakoor Pooseh , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We introduce deterministic perturbation schemes for the recently proposed random directions stochastic approximation (RDSA) [17], and propose new first-order and second-order algorithms. In the latter case, these are the first second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Prashanth L A , Shalabh Bhatnagar , Nirav Bhavsar , Michael Fu , Steven I. Marcus

Future architectures designed to deliver exascale performance motivate the need for novel algorithmic changes in order to fully exploit their capabilities. In this paper, the performance of several numerical algorithms, characterised by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Satya P. Jammy , Christian T. Jacobs , Neil D. Sandham

In this work, we propose to extend an approach to calculate at any order $(n)$, the functional derivative of the diffracted field with respect to the permittivity-contrast function. These derivatives obtained for different orders are used…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Slimane Arhab , Dimitrios Anagnostou , Maminirina Joelson

A set of algorithms is presented for efficient numerical calculation of the time evolution of classical dynamical systems. Starting with a first approximation for solving the differential equations that has a "reversible" character, we show…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Charles Schwartz

This work further develops the properties of fractional differential forms. In particular, finite dimensional subspaces of fractional form spaces are considered. An inner product, Hodge dual, and covariant derivative are defined. Coordinate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kathleen Cotrill-Shepherd , Mark NAber

Although being powerful, the differential transform method yet suffers from a drawback which is how to compute the differential transform of nonlinear non-autonomous functions that can limit its applicability. In order to overcome this…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Essam. R. El-Zahar , Abdelhalim Ebaid

Diffusive representations of fractional differential and integral operators can provide a convenient means to construct efficient numerical algorithms for their approximate evaluation. In the current literature, many different variants of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Kai Diethelm

This paper is concerned with the efficient evaluation of higher-order derivatives of functions $f$ that are composed of matrix operations. I.e., we want to compute the $D$-th derivative tensor $\nabla^D f(X) \in \mathbb R^{N^D}$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Sebastian F. Walter

We reformulate differential equations (DEs) for Feynman integrals to avoid doubled propagators in intermediate steps. External momentum derivatives are dressed with loop momentum derivatives to form tangent vectors to unitarity cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-26 Mao Zeng

In this paper, a nonlinear system of fractional ordinary differential equations with multiple scales in time is investigated. We are interested in the effective long-term computation of the solution. The main challenge is how to obtain the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Zhaoyang Wang , Ping Lin

We provide a fast and simple method to solve fractional variational problems with dependence on Hadamard fractional derivatives. Using a relation between the Hadamard fractional operator and a sum involving integer-order derivatives, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-07 Ricardo Almeida , Nuno R. O. Bastos , Delfim F. M. Torres

Gradients of neural networks can be computed efficiently for any architecture, but some applications require differential operators with higher time complexity. We describe a family of restricted neural network architectures that allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ricky T. Q. Chen , David Duvenaud