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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the method of choice for learning problems involving 2D planar images. However, a number of problems of recent interest have created a demand for models that can analyze spherical images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Taco S. Cohen , Mario Geiger , Jonas Koehler , Max Welling

Order parameters based on spherical harmonics and Fourier coefficients already play a significant role in condensed matter research in the context of systems of spherical or point particles. Here, we extend these types of order parameter to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-22 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

We analyze asynchronous-type algorithms for distributed SGD in the heterogeneous setting, where each worker has its own computation and communication speeds, as well as data distribution. In these algorithms, workers compute possibly stale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Rustem Islamov , Mher Safaryan , Dan Alistarh

Emulating spiking neural networks on analog neuromorphic hardware offers several advantages over simulating them on conventional computers, particularly in terms of speed and energy consumption. However, this usually comes at the cost of…

This paper introduces the theory and hardware implementation of two new algorithms for computing a single component of the discrete Fourier transform. In terms of multiplicative complexity, both algorithms are more efficient, in general,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-24 G. Jerônimo da Silva , R. M. Campello de Souza , H. M. de Oliveira

Remarkable achievements have been attained by deep neural networks in various applications. However, the increasing depth and width of such models also lead to explosive growth in both storage and computation, which has restricted the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Linfeng Zhang , Zhanhong Tan , Jiebo Song , Jingwei Chen , Chenglong Bao , Kaisheng Ma

Edge devices are being deployed at increasing volumes to sense and act on information from the physical world. The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is often necessary to make this sensed data suitable for further processing -- such as by…

Automatic segmentation of an image to identify all meaningful parts is one of the most challenging as well as useful tasks in a number of application areas. This is widely studied. Selective segmentation, less studied, aims to use limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Michael Roberts , Ke Chen , Klaus L. Irion

We provide a flexible, open-source framework for hardware acceleration, namely massively-parallel execution on general-purpose graphics processing units (GPUs), applied to the hierarchical Poincar\'e--Steklov (HPS) family of algorithms for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Owen Melia , Daniel Fortunato , Jeremy Hoskins , Rebecca Willett

A rapid algorithm is derived for the Helmholtz--Hodge decomposition on the surface of the sphere in spherical coordinates. The algorithm uncouples modes of spherical harmonics with different absolute order, writes the conversion as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Julien Molina , Richard Mikael Slevinsky

Fast linear transforms are ubiquitous in machine learning, including the discrete Fourier transform, discrete cosine transform, and other structured transformations such as convolutions. All of these transforms can be represented by dense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tri Dao , Albert Gu , Matthew Eichhorn , Atri Rudra , Christopher Ré

Image subtraction in astronomy is a tool for transient object discovery such as asteroids, extra-solar planets and supernovae. To match point spread functions (PSFs) between images of the same field taken at different times a convolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Steven Hartung , Hemant Shukla , J. Patrick Miller , Carlton Pennypacker

The simulation of electronic properties is a pivotal issue in modern electronic structure theory, driving significant efforts over the past decades to develop protocols for computing energy derivatives. In this work, we address this problem…

Particle-based fluid simulations have emerged as a powerful tool for solving the Navier-Stokes equations, especially in cases that include intricate physics and free surfaces. The recent addition of machine learning methods to the toolbox…

No existing spherical convolutional neural network (CNN) framework is both computationally scalable and rotationally equivariant. Continuous approaches capture rotational equivariance but are often prohibitively computationally demanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jeremy Ocampo , Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen

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 propose Pulsar, an efficient sphere-based differentiable renderer that is orders of magnitude faster than competing techniques, modular, and easy-to-use due to its tight integration with PyTorch. Differentiable rendering is the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Christoph Lassner , Michael Zollhöfer

The widespread 'deeper is better' philosophy has driven the creation of architectures like ResNet and Transformer, which achieve high performance by stacking numerous layers. However, increasing model depth comes with challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wei Wang , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

Many applications in science call for the numerical simulation of systems on manifolds with spherical topology. Through use of integer spin weighted spherical harmonics we present a method which allows for the implementation of arbitrary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Florian Beyer , Boris Daszuta , Jörg Frauendiener , Ben Whale

The dominant paradigm in computational materials discovery relies on heavily parameterized deep architectures, including message-passing graph networks and equivariant models, that require millions of DFT-labeled training structures and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Pranoy Ray , Surya R. Kalidindi