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A C++ library for sensitivity analysis of optimisation problems involving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) enabled by automatic differentiation (AD) and SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple data) vectorization is presented. The discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Rui Martins , Evgeny Lakshtanov

This paper investigates a variant of the famous "happy numbers" sequence, given by A351327 on the oeis. First of all we'll define this integer sequence, and then we'll show some important results about it; in particular we conjectured that…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Luca Onnis

Computing the gradient of a function provides fundamental information about its behavior. This information is essential for several applications and algorithms across various fields. One common application that require gradients are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Esmail Abdul Fattah , Janet Van Niekerk , Haavard Rue

Recent explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods for time series primarily estimate point-wise attribution magnitudes, while overlooking the directional impact on predictions, leading to suboptimal identification of significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Hyeongwon Jang , Changhun Kim , Eunho Yang

Forced alignment is a common tool to align audio with orthographic and phonetic transcriptions. Most forced alignment tools provide only point-estimates of boundaries. The present project introduces a method of producing gradient boundaries…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Matthew C. Kelley

Harmonic sums and their generalizations are extremely useful in the evaluation of higher-order perturbative corrections in quantum field theory. Of particular interest have been the so-called nested sums,where the harmonic sums and their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Moch , P. Uwer

We introduce a GUI fronted program that can compute combinatorial properties and topological invariants of recognisable and primitive symbolic substitutions on finite alphabets and their associated tiling spaces. We introduce theory from…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Scott Balchin , Dan Rust

Automatic differentiation (AD) is a technique for computing the derivative of a function represented by a program. This technique is considered as the de-facto standard for computing the differentiation in many machine learning and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Amir Shaikhha , Mathieu Huot , Shabnam Ghasemirad , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Simon Peyton Jones , Dimitrios Vytiniotis

Rapid advances in deep learning have brought not only myriad powerful neural networks, but also breakthroughs that benefit established scientific research. In particular, automatic differentiation (AD) tools and computational accelerators…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Yin Li , Chirag Modi , Drew Jamieson , Yucheng Zhang , Libin Lu , Yu Feng , François Lanusse , Leslie Greengard

This paper develops coding techniques to reduce the running time of distributed learning tasks. It characterizes the fundamental tradeoff to compute gradients (and more generally vector summations) in terms of three parameters: computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-13 Min Ye , Emmanuel Abbe

We consider the problem of distributedly computing a general class of functions, referred to as gradient-type computation, while maintaining the privacy of the input dataset. Gradient-type computation evaluates the sum of some `partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper proposes a prediction-based gradient compression method for distributed learning with event-triggered communication. Our goal is to reduce the amount of information transmitted from the distributed agents to the parameter server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Adrian Edin , Zheng Chen , Michel Kieffer , Mikael Johansson

This paper introduces Adaptive Computation Time (ACT), an algorithm that allows recurrent neural networks to learn how many computational steps to take between receiving an input and emitting an output. ACT requires minimal changes to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Alex Graves

Traditional saliency map methods, popularized in computer vision, highlight individual points (pixels) of the input that contribute the most to the model's output. However, in time series, they offer limited insights, as semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Christodoulos Kechris , Jonathan Dan , David Atienza

In this paper, we propose a new stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm, which incrementally approximates the full gradient in the linearized ADMM formulation. Besides having a low per-iteration complexity as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Leon Wenliang Zhong , James T. Kwok

Despite the success of deep learning for text and image data, tree-based ensemble models are still state-of-the-art for machine learning with heterogeneous tabular data. However, there is a significant need for tabular-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Sascha Marton , Stefan Lüdtke , Christian Bartelt , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

This document describes an attempt to develop a compiler-based approach for computations with symmetric tensors. Given a computation and the symmetries of its input tensors, we derive formulas for random access under a storage scheme that…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jessica Shi , Stephen Chou , Fredrik Kjolstad , Saman Amarasinghe

In this paper, we propose a generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with semi-proximal terms for solving a class of convex composite conic optimization problems, of which some are high-dimensional, to moderate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Yunhai Xiao , Liang Chen , Donghui Li

Current text to speech (TTS) systems usually leverage a cascaded acoustic model and vocoder pipeline with mel-spectrograms as the intermediate representations, which suffer from two limitations: 1) the acoustic model and vocoder are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yanqing Liu , Ruiqing Xue , Lei He , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

This study explores matrix-free tangent evaluations in finite-strain elasticity with the use of automatically-generated code for the quadrature-point level calculations. The code generation is done via automatic differentiation (AD) with…