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Several quantities important in condensed matter physics, quantum information, and quantum chemistry, as well as quantities required in meta-optimization of machine learning algorithms, can be expressed as gradients of implicitly defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Shahnawaz Ahmed , Nathan Killoran , Juan Felipe Carrasquilla Álvarez

The capability to transfer mastered skills to accomplish a range of similar yet novel tasks is crucial for intelligent robots. In this work, we introduce $\textit{Diff-Transfer}$, a novel framework leveraging differentiable physics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yuqi Xiang , Feitong Chen , Qinsi Wang , Yang Gang , Xiang Zhang , Xinghao Zhu , Xingyu Liu , Lin Shao

Transmission and distribution dynamic co-simulation is a practical and effective approach to leverage existing simulation tools for transmission and distribution systems to simulate dynamic stability and performance of transmission and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Qiuhua Huang , Renke Huang , Rui Fan , Jason Fuller , Trevor Hardy , Zhenyu , Huang , Vijay Vittal

The complexities of today's materials simulations demand computer codes which are both powerful and highly flexible. A researcher should be able to readily choose different geometries, different materials and different algorithms without…

Materials science inherently spans disciplines: experimentalists use advanced microscopy to uncover micro- and nanoscale structure, while theorists and computational scientists develop models that link processing, structure, and properties.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Simon Daubner , Alexander E. Cohen , Benjamin Dörich , Samuel J. Cooper

We examine a variety of numerical methods that arise when considering dynamical systems in the context of physics-based simulations of deformable objects. Such problems arise in various applications, including animation, robotics, control…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Uri M. Ascher , Egor Larionov , Seung Heon Sheen , Dinesh K. Pai

Since their introduction, fuzzy sets and systems have become an important area of research known for its versatility in modelling, knowledge representation and reasoning, and increasingly its potential within the context explainable AI.…

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Developing smart house systems has been a great challenge for researchers and engineers in this area because of the high cost of implementation and evaluation process of these systems, while being very time consuming. Testing a designed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Zahra Forootan Jahromi , Amir Rajabzadeh , Ali Reza Manashty

Design of robots at the small scale is a trial-and-error based process, which is costly and time-consuming. There are few dynamic simulation tools available to accurately predict the motion or performance of untethered microrobots as they…

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Scalable and efficient numerical simulations continue to gain importance, as computation is firmly established as the third pillar of discovery, alongside theory and experiment. Meanwhile, the performance of computing hardware grows through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Pietro Incardona , Antonio Leo , Yaroslav Zaluzhnyi , Rajesh Ramaswamy , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Derivatives of computer graphics, image processing, and deep learning algorithms have tremendous use in guiding parameter space searches, or solving inverse problems. As the algorithms become more sophisticated, we no longer only need to…

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An overview of computational methods to describe high-dimensional potential energy surfaces suitable for atomistic simulations is given. Particular emphasis is put on accuracy, computability, transferability and extensibility of the methods…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Oliver T. Unke , Debasish Koner , Sarbani Patra , Silvan Käser , Markus Meuwly

Computational physics increasingly depends on large simulation datasets generated by software that remains under active development for many years. In such settings, reproducibility requires not only well documented data but also explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Markus Uehlein , Tobias Held , Christopher Seibel , Lukas G. Jonda , Baerbel Rethfeld , Sebastian T. Weber

Design of next generation computer systems should be supported by simulation infrastructure that must achieve a few contradictory goals such as fast execution time, high accuracy, and enough flexibility to allow comparison between large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Ori Chalak , Cai Weiguang , Li Wei , Fang Lei , Zheng Libing , Wang Jintang , Wu Zuguang , Gu Xiongli , Wang Haibin , Avi Mendelson

The landscape of computer graphics has undergone significant transformations with the recent advances of differentiable rendering models. These rendering models often rely on heuristic designs that may not fully align with the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Fangneng Zhan , Hanxue Liang , Yifan Wang , Michael Niemeyer , Michael Oechsle , Adam Kortylewski , Cengiz Oztireli , Gordon Wetzstein , Christian Theobalt

Simulations play important and diverse roles in statistical workflows, for example, in model specification, checking, validation, and even directly in model inference. Over the past decades, the application areas and overall potential of…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-27 Paul-Christian Bürkner , Marvin Schmitt , Stefan T. Radev

We present a parallelized differentiable traffic simulator based on the Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), a car-following framework that incorporates driver behavior as key variables. Our vehicle simulator efficiently models vehicle motion,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Sanghyun Son , Laura Zheng , Brian Clipp , Connor Greenwell , Sujin Philip , Ming C. Lin

As the computer vision matures into a systems science and engineering discipline, there is a trend in leveraging latest advances in computer graphics simulations for performance evaluation, learning, and inference. However, there is an open…

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Processing-in-Memory (PIM) has emerged as a promising computing paradigm to address the memory wall and the fundamental bottleneck of the von Neumann architecture by reducing costly data movement between memory and processing units. As with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mahdi Aghaei , Saba Ebrahimi , Mohammad Saleh Arafati , Elham Cheshmikhani , Dara Rahmati , Saeid Gorgin , Jungrae Kim