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Shape optimization approaches to inverse design offer low-dimensional, physically-guided parameterizations of structures by representing them as combinations of shape primitives. However, on discretized rectilinear simulation grids,…

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We introduce DiffBMP, a scalable and efficient differentiable rendering engine for a collection of bitmap images. Our work addresses a limitation that traditional differentiable renderers are constrained to vector graphics, given that most…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Seongmin Hong , Junghun James Kim , Daehyeop Kim , Insoo Chung , Se Young Chun

Research on differentiable scene representations is consistently moving towards more efficient, real-time models. Recently, this has led to the popularization of splatting methods, which eschew the traditional ray-based rendering of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Shrisudhan Govindarajan , Daniel Rebain , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Many areas of science and engineering encounter data defined on spherical manifolds. Modelling and analysis of spherical data often necessitates spherical harmonic transforms, at high degrees, and increasingly requires efficient computation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen

With large-scale Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) surveys of thousands of galaxies currently under-way or planned, the astronomical community is in need of methods, techniques and tools that will allow the analysis of huge amounts of data.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Georgios Bekiaris , Karl Glazebrook , Christopher J. Fluke , Roberto Abraham

Recent developments have made it possible to overcome grid-based limitations of finite difference (FD) methods by adopting the kernel-based meshless framework using radial basis functions (RBFs). Such an approach provides a meshless…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Pankaj K Mishra , Gregory E Fasshauer , Mrinal K Sen , Leevan Ling

In this paper, we propose UniGS, a unified map representation and differentiable framework for high-fidelity multimodal 3D reconstruction based on 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our framework integrates a CUDA-accelerated rasterization pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Jianhao Jiao , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Jun Ma

Galaxy spectra are essential to probe the spatial distribution of galaxies in our Universe. To better interpret current and future spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys, it is important to be able to simulate these data sets. We describe…

We introduce GalaxyGenius, a Python package designed to produce synthetic galaxy images tailored to different telescopes based on hydrodynamical simulations. Its implementation will support and advance research on galaxies in the era of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Xingchen Zhou , Hang Yang , Nan Li , Qi Xiong , Furen Deng , Xian-Min Meng , Renhao Ye , Shiyin Shen , Peng Wei , Qifan Cui , Zizhao He , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Chengliang Wei , Yuedong Fang

To accurately reproduce measurements from the real world, simulators need to have an adequate model of the physical system and require the parameters of the model be identified. We address the latter problem of estimating parameters through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Eric Heiden , Christopher E. Denniston , David Millard , Fabio Ramos , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

We present GIGA-Lens: a gradient-informed, GPU-accelerated Bayesian framework for modeling strong gravitational lensing systems, implemented in TensorFlow and JAX. The three components, optimization using multi-start gradient descent,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 A. Gu , X. Huang , W. Sheu , G. Aldering , A. S. Bolton , K. Boone , A. Dey , A. Filipp , E. Jullo , S. Perlmutter , D. Rubin , E. F. Schlafly , D. J. Schlegel , Y. Shu , S. H. Suyu

We present SimSpin, a new, public, software framework for generating integral field spectroscopy (IFS) data cubes from N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, which can be compared directly with observational datasets. SimSpin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-26 K. E. Harborne , C. Power , A. S. G. Robotham

Turbulent space and astrophysical plasmas exhibit a complex dynamics, which involves nonlinear coupling across different temporal and spatial scales. There is growing evidence that impulsive events, such as magnetic reconnection…

IMU preintegration is widely used in factor-graph-based visual--inertial, lidar--inertial, and radar--inertial state estimation, yet it is often treated as a specialized implementation separate from conventional IMU propagation. This note…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jianzhu Huai

Radiance field-based rendering methods have attracted significant interest from the computer vision and computer graphics communities. They enable high-fidelity rendering with complex real-world lighting effects, but at the cost of high…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yinghan Xu , Théo Morales , John Dingliana

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

The upcoming stage IV wide-field surveys will provide high precision measurements of the large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe. Their interpretation requires fast and accurate theoretical predictions including large scales. For this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Laura Reymond , Alexander Reeves , Pierre Zhang , Alexandre Refregier

This project aims to advance differentiable fluid dynamics for hypersonic coupled flow over porous media, demonstrating the potential of automatic differentiation (AD)-based optimization for end-to-end solutions. Leveraging AD efficiently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-01 Wenkang Wang , Xuanwei Zhang , Deniz Bezgin , Aaron Buhendwa , Xu Chu , Bernhard Weigand

We introduce Gradus.jl, an open-source and publicly available general relativistic ray-tracing toolkit for spectral modelling in arbitrary spacetimes. Our software is written in the Julia programming language, making use of forward-mode…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Fergus J. E. Baker , Andrew J. Young

This paper presents a mutual information (MI) based algorithm for the estimation of full 6-degree-of-freedom (DOF) rigid body transformation between two overlapping point clouds. We first divide the scene into a 3D voxel grid and define…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Nikhil Mehta , James R. McBride , Gaurav Pandey