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Optimization of beamlines and lattices is a common problem in accelerator physics, which is usually solved with semi-analytical methods and numerical optimization routines. However, these are usually of the gradient-free or…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Francisco Huhn , Francesco M. Velotti

This letter introduces DiffAero, a lightweight, GPU-accelerated, and fully differentiable simulation framework designed for efficient quadrotor control policy learning. DiffAero supports both environment-level and agent-level parallelism…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinhong Zhang , Runqing Wang , Yunfan Ren , Jian Sun , Hao Fang , Jie Chen , Gang Wang

This paper presents a method for the accurate and efficient computations on scalar, vector and tensor fields in three-dimensional spherical polar coordinates. The methods uses spin-weighted spherical harmonics in the angular directions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Geoff Vasil , Daniel Lecoanet , Keaton Burns , Jeff Oishi , Ben Brown

Understanding shock-solid interactions remains a central challenge in compressiblefluiddynamics. WepresentJAX-Shock: afully-differentiable,GPU-accelerated, high-order shock-capturing solver for efficient simulation of the compressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Bo Zhang

Existing methods for rotation estimation between two spherical ($\mathbb{S}^2$) patterns typically rely on spherical cross-correlation maximization between two spherical function. However, these approaches exhibit computational complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Anik Sarker , Alan T. Asbeck

Multi-dimensional Fourier transforms are key mathematical building blocks that appear in a wide range of applications from materials science, physics, chemistry and even machine learning. Over the past years, a multitude of software…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Doru Thom Popovici , Mauro del Ben , Osni Marques , Andrew Canning

The authors present SHarmonic, a new implementation of the spherical harmonics targeted for electronic-structure calculations. Their approach is to use explicit formulas for the harmonics written in terms of normalized Cartesian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Xavier Andrade , Jacopo Simoni , Yuan Ping , Tadashi Ogitsu , Alfredo A. Correa

We propose an implementation of the quantum fast Fourier transform algorithm in an entangled system of multilevel atoms. The Fourier transform occurs naturally in the unitary time evolution of energy eigenstates and is used to define an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ashok Muthukrishnan , C. R. Stroud

A linear-complexity algorithm for computing the Wasserstein-1 distance on non-uniform meshes is proposed. This work extends the fast Sinkhorn algorithms from [Q. Liao et al., Commun. Math. Sci., 20(2022)] and [Q. Liao et al., J. Sci.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Qihao Cheng , Qichen Liao , Hao Wu , Shuai Yang

Quantum solutions to differential equations represent quantum data -- states that contain relevant information about the system's behavior, yet are difficult to analyze. We propose a toolbox for reading out information from such data, where…

FPGAs provide a flexible and efficient platform to accelerate rapidly-changing algorithms for computer vision. The majority of existing work focuses on accelerating image classification, while other fundamental vision problems, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Qijing Huang , Dequan Wang , Yizhao Gao , Yaohui Cai , Zhen Dong , Bichen Wu , Kurt Keutzer , John Wawrzynek

A fast algorithm is developed for the directional correlation of scalar band-limited signals and band-limited steerable filters on the sphere. The asymptotic complexity associated to it through simple quadrature is of order O(L^5), where 2L…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. Wiaux , L. Jacques , P. Vielva , P. Vandergheynst

Differential equations may possess coefficients that vary on a spectrum of scales. Because coefficients are typically multiplicative in real space, they turn into convolution operators in spectral space, mixing all wavenumbers. However, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Shravan Hanasoge

We introduce a multi-windowed graph Fourier transform (MWGFT) for the joint vertex-frequency analysis of signals defined on graphs. Building on generalized translation and modulation induced by the graph Laplacian, the proposed framework…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Iulia Martina Bulai , Elena Cordero , Edoardo Pucci , Sandra Saliani

Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM) is the combination of optical microscopy to statistical analysis to obtain information about the dynamical behaviour of a variety of samples spanning from soft matter physics to biology. In DDM, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 M. Norouzisadeh , G. Cerchiari , F. Croccolo

Large scale, inverse problem solving deep learning algorithms have become an essential part of modern research and industrial applications. The complexity of the underlying inverse problem often poses challenges to the algorithm and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Daniel Lersch , Malachi Schram , Zhenyu Dai , Kishansingh Rajput , Xingfu Wu , N. Sato , J. Taylor Childers

3D image processing constitutes nowadays a challenging topic in many scientific fields such as medicine, computational physics and informatics. Therefore, development of suitable tools that guaranty a best treatment is a necessity.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Malika Jallouli , Wafa Bel Hadj Khalifa , Anouar Ben Mabrouk , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub

Differentiable simulators are an emerging concept with applications in several fields, from reinforcement learning to optimal control. Their distinguishing feature is the ability to calculate analytic gradients with respect to the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Antonio Stanziola , Simon R. Arridge , Ben T. Cox , Bradley E. Treeby

Objective: In this work, we propose a framework for differentiable forward and back-projector that enables scalable, accurate, and memory-efficient gradient computation for rigid motion estimation tasks. Methods: Unlike existing approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Xiao Jiang , Xin Wang , Ali Uneri , Wojciech B. Zbijewski , J. Webster Stayman

Fourier transforms are ubiquitous mathematical tools in basic and applied sciences. We here report classical and quantum optical realizations of the discrete fractional Fourier transform, a generalization of the Fourier transform. In the…