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Second order information is useful in many ways in smooth optimization problems, including for the design of step size rules and descent directions, or the analysis of the local properties of the objective functional. However, the…

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We propose a numerical method for solving high dimensional fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Our algorithm estimates simultaneously by backward time induction the solution and its gradient by multi-layer neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Huyen Pham , Xavier Warin , Maximilien Germain

We present MeshLLM, a novel framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) to understand and generate text-serialized 3D meshes. Our approach addresses key limitations in existing methods, including the limited dataset scale when…

Large Language Model (LLM) based coding tools have been tremendously successful as software development assistants, yet they are often designed for general purpose programming tasks and perform poorly for more specialized domains such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Aman Chaturvedi , Daniel Nichols , Siddharth Singh , Abhinav Bhatele

Hessian operators arising in inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) play a critical role in delivering efficient, dimension-independent convergence for both Newton solution of deterministic inverse problems, as…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on complex reasoning tasks, yet little is known about their ability to internally evaluate problem difficulty, which is an essential capability for adaptive reasoning and efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sunbowen Lee , Qingyu Yin , Chak Tou Leong , Jialiang Zhang , Yicheng Gong , Shiwen Ni , Min Yang , Xiaoyu Shen

Large scale optimization problems are ubiquitous in machine learning and data analysis and there is a plethora of algorithms for solving such problems. Many of these algorithms employ sub-sampling, as a way to either speed up the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Michael W. Mahoney

The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) is determined by their training data. Despite the proliferation of open-weight LLMs, access to LLM training data has remained limited. Even for fully open LLMs, the scale of the data makes it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ines Altemir Marinas , Anastasiia Kucherenko , Alexander Sternfeld , Andrei Kucharavy

Under the nearing error-corrected era of quantum computing, it is necessary to understand the suitability of certain post-NISQ algorithms for practical problems. One of the most promising, applicable and yet difficult to implement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Mark Danza , Sonia Lopez Alarcon , Cory Merkel

Second-order optimization uses curvature information about the objective function, which can help in faster convergence. However, such methods typically require expensive computation of the Hessian matrix, preventing their usage in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mohamed Elsayed , A. Rupam Mahmood

Due to the advantages of hypergraphs in modeling high-order relationships in complex systems, they have been applied to higher-order clustering, hypergraph neural networks and computer vision. These applications rely heavily on access to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Bingqiao Gu , Jiale Zeng , Xingqin Qi , Dong Li

In this paper, we propose a second order optimization method to learn models where both the dimensionality of the parameter space and the number of training samples is high. In our method, we construct on each iteration a Krylov subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-11-21 Oriol Vinyals , Daniel Povey

The Laplace approximation calls for the computation of second derivatives at the likelihood maximum. When the maximum is found by the EM-algorithm, there is a convenient way to compute these derivatives. The likelihood gradient can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Niko Brümmer

Ensuring the reproducibility of physics results is one of the crucial challenges in high-energy physics (HEP). In this study, we develop a proof-of-concept system that uses large language models (LLMs) to extract analysis procedures from…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-17 Masahiko Saito , Tomoe Kishimoto , Junichi Tanaka

Parallel programs in high performance computing (HPC) continue to grow in complexity and scale in the exascale era. The diversity in hardware and parallel programming models make developing, optimizing, and maintaining parallel software…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Daniel Nichols , Aniruddha Marathe , Harshitha Menon , Todd Gamblin , Abhinav Bhatele

Recent studies have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to process extremely long text. Many works only evaluate LLMs' long-text processing ability on the language modeling task, with perplexity (PPL) as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yutong Hu , Quzhe Huang , Mingxu Tao , Chen Zhang , Yansong Feng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently developed new advanced functionalities. Their effectiveness relies on statistical learning and generalization capabilities. However, they face limitations in internalizing the data they process and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Farah Ben Slama , Frédéric Armetta

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various fields, prompting several studies to explore their potential in recommendation systems. However, these attempts have so far resulted in only modest improvements over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Junyi Chen , Lu Chi , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

Recent advances in code generation have illuminated the potential of employing large language models (LLMs) for general-purpose programming languages such as Python and C++, opening new opportunities for automating software development and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jiahao Gai , Hao Mark Chen , Zhican Wang , Hongyu Zhou , Wanru Zhao , Nicholas Lane , Hongxiang Fan

In this review we present hyper-dual numbers as a tool for the automatic differentiation of computer programs via operator overloading. We start with a motivational introduction into the ideas of algorithmic differentiation. Then we…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Martin Neuenhofen