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Derivatives and integration operators are well-studied examples of linear operators that commute with scaling up to a fixed multiplicative factor; i.e., they are scale-invariant. Fractional order derivatives (integration operators) also…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Arash Amini , Julien Fageot , Michael Unser

Scientists often infer abstract procedures from specific instances of problems and use the abstractions to generate new, related instances. For example, programs encoding the formal rules and properties of a system have been useful in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zaid Khan , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Archiki Prasad , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal

JAX-Privacy is a library designed to simplify the deployment of robust and performant mechanisms for differentially private machine learning. Guided by design principles of usability, flexibility, and efficiency, JAX-Privacy serves both…

Based on a class of associative algebras with zero-divisors which are called real-like algebras by us, we introduce a way of defining automatic differentiation and present different ways of doing automatic differentiation to compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Keqin Liu

Our aim here is to illustrate how the benefits of structural corecursion can be found in a broader swath of the programming landscape than previously thought. Beginning from a tutorial on structural corecursion in the total, pure functional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Paul Downen , Zena M. Ariola

Algorithmic differentiation (AD) tools allow to obtain gradient information of a continuously differentiable objective function in a computationally cheap way using the so-called backward mode. It is common practice to use the same tools…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Lukas Baumgärtner , Franz Bethke

We give a gentle introduction to using various software tools for automatic differentiation (AD). Ready-to-use examples are discussed, and links to further information are presented. Our target audience includes all those who are looking…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Uwe Naumann , Andrea Walther

The traditional approach in HEP analysis software is to loop over every event and every object via the ROOT framework. This method follows an imperative paradigm, in which the code is tied to the storage format and steps of execution. A…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-09-08 Mason Proffitt , Gordon Watts

We introduce an algorithm that simplifies the construction of efficient estimators, making them accessible to a broader audience. 'Dimple' takes as input computer code representing a parameter of interest and outputs an efficient estimator.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-17 Alex Luedtke

We present an implementation of interval analysis and mixed monotone interval reachability analysis as function transforms in Python, fully composable with the computational framework JAX. The resulting toolbox inherits several key features…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Akash Harapanahalli , Saber Jafarpour , Samuel Coogan

Functional determinants of differential operators play a prominent role in theoretical and mathematical physics, and in particular in quantum field theory. They are, however, difficult to compute in non-trivial cases. For one dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerald V. Dunne

Physics-informed learning has shown to have a better generalization than learning without physical priors. However, training physics-informed deep neural networks requires some aspect of physical simulations to be written in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Muhammad F. Kasim , Sam M. Vinko

Unlike polynomials, rational functions can represent functions having poles or branch cuts with root-exponential convergence and no Runge phenomenon. Recent developments of the AAA and greedy Thiele algorithms have sparked renewed interest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Tobin A. Driscoll

The defunctionalization translation that eliminates higher-order functions from programs forms a key part of many compilers. However, defunctionalization for dependently-typed languages has not been formally studied. We present the first…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yulong Huang , Jeremy Yallop

In this paper we focus on the linear functionals defining an approximate version of the gradient of a function. These functionals are often used when dealing with optimization problems where the computation of the gradient of the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Marco Boresta , Tommaso Colombo , Alberto De Santis , Stefano Lucidi

Forward Automatic Differentiation (AD) is a technique for augmenting programs to compute derivatives. The essence of Forward AD is to attach perturbations to each number, and propagate these through the computation. When derivatives are…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Oleksandr Manzyuk , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Alexey Andreyevich Radul , David R. Rush , Jeffrey Mark Siskind

If the result of an expensive computation is invalidated by a small change to the input, the old result should be updated incrementally instead of reexecuting the whole computation. We incrementalize programs through their derivative. A…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Yufei Cai , Paolo G. Giarrusso , Tillmann Rendel , Klaus Ostermann

In operator overloading algorithmic differentiation, it can be beneficial to create custom derivative functions for some parts of the code base. For manual implementations of the derivative functions, it can be quite cumbersome to derive,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-07-13 M. Sagebaum , M. Aehle , N. R. Gauger

Particle filters are not compatible with automatic differentiation due to the presence of discrete resampling steps. While known estimators for the score function, based on Fisher's identity, can be computed using particle filters, up to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-20 Adam Ścibior , Frank Wood

Almost all problems in applied mathematics, including the analysis of dynamical systems, deal with spaces of real-valued functions on Euclidean domains in their formulation and solution. In this paper, we describe the the tool Ariadne,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pieter Collins , Luca Geretti , Sanja Zivanovic Gonzalez , Davide Bresolin , Tiziano Villa