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In the smooth mass distribution model, the critical curve represents a line with magnification divergence on the image plane in a strong gravitational lensing system. Considering the microlensing effects caused by discrete masses, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-29 Xuliu Yang , Xuechun Chen , Wenwen Zheng , Yu Luo

We present $\texttt{PyBird-JAX}$, a differentiable, $\texttt{JAX}$-based implementation of $\texttt{PyBird}$, using internal neural network emulators to accelerate computationally costly operations for rapid large-scale structure (LSS)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Alexander Reeves , Pierre Zhang , Henry Zheng

We demonstrate a GPU-accelerated nested sampling framework for efficient high-dimensional Bayesian inference in cosmology. Using JAX-based neural emulators and likelihoods for cosmic microwave background and cosmic shear analyses, our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Toby Lovick , David Yallup , Davide Piras , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Will Handley

Optical multilayer thin-films are fundamental components that enable the precise control of reflectance, transmittance, and phase shift in the design of photonic systems. Rapid and accessible simulation of these structures holds critical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Bahrem Serhat Danis , Esra Zayim

In the era of large-scale astronomical surveys, fast modeling of strong lens systems has become increasingly vital. While significant progress has been made for galaxy-scale lenses, the development of automated methods for modeling larger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 F. Urcelay , E. Jullo , L. F. Barrientos , X. Huang , J. Hernandez

Recent works demonstrate the advantages of hardware rasterization for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in forward-pass rendering through fast GPU-optimized graphics and fixed memory footprint. However, extending these benefits to backward-pass…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yitian Yuan , Qianyue He

The impending discovery and monitoring of hundreds of new gravitationally lensed quasars and supernovae from upcoming ground and space based large area surveys such as LSST, \textit{Euclid}, and \textit{Roman} necessitates the development…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Luke Weisenbach

MadJax is a tool for generating and evaluating differentiable matrix elements of high energy scattering processes. As such, it is a step towards a differentiable programming paradigm in high energy physics that facilitates the incorporation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Lukas Heinrich , Michael Kagan

A concise and highly performant branchless formulation of a Joseph-type interpolating ray-casting algorithm for the computation of X-ray projections is presented. It efficiently utilizes the hardware resources of modern graphics processing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Jonas Graetz

Polarized Resonant Soft X-ray scattering (P-RSoXS) has emerged as a powerful synchrotron-based tool that combines principles of X-ray scattering and X-ray spectroscopy. P-RSoXS provides unique sensitivity to molecular orientation and…

To assess how future progress in gravitational microlensing computation at high optical depth will rely on both hardware and software solutions, we compare a direct inverse ray-shooting code implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. F. Bate , C. J. Fluke , B. R. Barsdell , H. Garsden , G. F. Lewis

With the rapidly increasing rate of microlensing planet detections, microlensing modeling software faces significant challenges in computation efficiency. Here, we develop the Twinkle code, an efficient and robust binary-lens modeling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Suwei Wang , Lile Wang , Subo Dong

This paper introduces JAX-FEM, an open-source differentiable finite element method (FEM) library. Constructed on top of Google JAX, a rising machine learning library focusing on high-performance numerical computing, JAX-FEM is implemented…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Tianju Xue , Shuheng Liao , Zhengtao Gan , Chanwook Park , Xiaoyu Xie , Wing Kam Liu , Jian Cao

In the era of synoptic surveys, the number of known gravitationally lensed quasars is set to increase by over an order of magnitude. These new discoveries will enable a move from single-quasar studies to investigations of statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 N. F. Bate , C. J. Fluke

We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This GPU-based integrator employs the stream processing paradigm, is implemented in CUDA C/C++, and runs on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

We present jax-cosmo, a library for automatically differentiable cosmological theory calculations. It uses the JAX library, which has created a new coding ecosystem, especially in probabilistic programming. As well as batch acceleration,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Jean-Eric Campagne , François Lanusse , Joe Zuntz , Alexandre Boucaud , Santiago Casas , Minas Karamanis , David Kirkby , Denise Lanzieri , Yin Li , Austin Peel

Multiresolution analysis and matrix factorization are foundational tools in computer vision. In this work, we study the interface between these two distinct topics and obtain techniques to uncover hierarchical block structure in symmetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Vamsi K. Ithapu , Risi Kondor , Sterling C. Johnson , Vikas Singh

Modal methods for simulating vibrations of strings, membranes, and plates are widely used in acoustics and physically informed audio synthesis. However, traditional implementations, particularly for non-linear models like the von K\'arm\'an…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rodrigo Diaz , Mark Sandler

Upcoming imaging surveys will use weak gravitational lensing to study the large-scale structure of the Universe, demanding sub-percent accuracy for precise cosmic shear measurements. We present a new differentiable implementation of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , Mike Jarvis , Yin Li , Andy Park , Tianqing Zhang

Solving large dense linear systems and eigenvalue problems is a core requirement in many areas of scientific computing, but scaling these operations beyond a single GPU remains challenging within modern programming frameworks. While highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Roeland Wiersema