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Optimization problems with constraints in the form of a partial differential equation arise frequently in the process of engineering design. The discretization of PDE-constrained optimization problems results in large-scale linear systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Jacek Gondzio , Pavel Zhlobich

Tenfold improvements in computation speed can be brought to the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for Semidefinite Programming with virtually no decrease in robustness and provable convergence simply by projecting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Nikitas Rontsis , Paul J. Goulart , Yuji Nakatsukasa

We present semantic correctness proofs of automatic differentiation (AD). We consider a forward-mode AD method on a higher-order language with algebraic data types and we characterise it as the unique structure-preserving macro given a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mathieu Huot , Sam Staton , Matthijs Vákár

For scientific machine learning tasks with a lot of custom code, picking the right Automatic Differentiation (AD) system matters. Our Julia package DifferentiationInterface$.$jl provides a common frontend to a dozen AD backends, unlocking…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Guillaume Dalle , Adrian Hill

This contribution presents an improved low-order 3D finite element formulation with hourglass stabilization using automatic differentiation (AD). Here, the former Q1STc formulation is enhanced by an approximation-free computation of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Njomza Pacolli , Ahmad Awad , Jannick Kehls , Bjorn Sauren , Sven Klinkel , Stefanie Reese , Hagen Holthusen

The successes of deep learning, variational inference, and many other fields have been aided by specialized implementations of reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) to compute gradients of mega-dimensional objectives. The AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Joshua Aduol , Alex Beatson , Ryan P. Adams

Algebraic differentiators have attracted much interest in recent years. Their simple implementation as classical finite impulse response digital filters and systematic tuning guidelines may help to solve challenging problems, including, but…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Amine Othmane , Joachim Rudolph

Automatic Differentiation (AD) is instrumental for science and industry. It is a tool to evaluate the derivative of a function specified through a computer program. The range of AD application domain spans from Machine Learning to Robotics…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ioana Ifrim , Vassil Vassilev , David J Lange

This paper is concerned with the finite element discretization of the data driven approach according to arXiv:1510.04232 for the solution of PDEs with a material law arising from measurement data. To simplify the setting, we focus on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Christian Meyer , Annika Müller

A new method for implementing the kinetic energy operator for real-space, grid-based electronic structure codes is developed. It is based on multi-order Adaptive Finite Differencing (AFD) and uses atomic pseudo orbitals produced by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 E. L. Briggs , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc

We present a hybrid a-priori/a-posteriori goal oriented error estimator for a combination of dynamic iteration-based solution of ordinary differential equations discretized by finite elements. Our novel error estimator combines estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Erik Weyl , Andreas Bartel , Manuel Schaller

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

In this work, we present scalable balancing domain decomposition by constraints methods for linear systems arising from arbitrary order edge finite element discretizations of multi-material and heterogeneous 3D problems. In order to enforce…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín , Marc Olm

Automatic differentiation is a tool for numerically calculating derivatives of a given function up to machine precision. This tool is useful for quantum chemistry methods, which require the calculation of gradients either for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Fabijan Pavošević , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

In this paper, gradient-based optimization methods are combined with finite-element modeling for improving electric devices. Geometric design parameters are considered by affine decomposition of the geometry or by the design element…

In this paper, we propose a decomposition approach for eigenvalue problems with spatial symmetries, including the formulation, discretization as well as implementation. This approach can handle eigenvalue problems with either Abelian or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Jun Fang , Xingyu Gao , Aihui Zhou

From implicit differentiation to probabilistic modeling, Jacobian and Hessian matrices have many potential use cases in Machine Learning (ML), but they are viewed as computationally prohibitive. Fortunately, these matrices often exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Adrian Hill , Guillaume Dalle

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

It is significant and challenging to solve eigenvalue problems of partial differential operators when many highly accurate eigenpair approximations are required. The adaptive finite element discretization based parallel orbital-updating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Xiaoying Dai , Yan Li , Bin Yang , Aihui Zhou

Many problems in control theory can be formulated as semidefinite programs (SDPs). For large-scale SDPs, it is important to exploit the inherent sparsity to improve the scalability. This paper develops efficient first-order methods to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Paul Goulart , Andrew Wynn
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