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We have used the IBIS Simulator to produce preliminary response matrices for the ISGRI and PICsIT detectors in order to help understanding their scientific performances before the calibration results are available. The derived matrices, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gotz , D. I. Cremonesi , S. Mereghetti

The ambiguity function is fundamental to radar waveform design, characterizing range and Doppler resolution capabilities. However, its traditional formulation involves non-differentiable operations, preventing integration with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Marc Bara Iniesta

We introduce differentiable indirection -- a novel learned primitive that employs differentiable multi-scale lookup tables as an effective substitute for traditional compute and data operations across the graphics pipeline. We demonstrate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sayantan Datta , Carl Marshall , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Zhao Dong , Zhengqin Li

Boundary representations (B-reps) using Non-Uniform Rational B-splines (NURBS) are the de facto standard used in CAD, but their utility in deep learning-based approaches is not well researched. We propose a differentiable NURBS module to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Anjana Deva Prasad , Aditya Balu , Harshil Shah , Soumik Sarkar , Chinmay Hegde , Adarsh Krishnamurthy

We present a set of treatment techniques for GMOS/IFU data cubes, including: correction of the differential atmospheric refraction; Butterworth spatial filtering, to remove high spatial-frequency noise; instrumental fingerprint removal;…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-21 R. B. Menezes , T. V. Ricci , J. E. Steiner , Patrícia da Silva , Fabricio Ferrari , B. W. Borges

We introduce a new approach for reconstruction and novel view synthesis of unbounded real-world scenes. In contrast to previous methods using either volumetric fields, grid-based models, or discrete point cloud proxies, we propose a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Moritz Kappel , Susana Castillo , Martin Eisemann , Marc Stamminger , Marcus Magnor

Today's deep high resolution multiwavelength surveys contain a wealth of information about galaxies at different epochs. To fully exploit this information, it is useful to be able to produce highly realistic simulations to compare with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rychard J. Bouwens , Garth D. Illingworth , Daniel Magee

We present RUBIS (Rotation code Using Barotropy conservation over Isopotential Surfaces), a fully Python-based centrifugal deformation program available at \url{https://github.com/pierrehoudayer/RUBIS}. The code has been designed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Pierre S. Houdayer , Daniel R. Reese

Research in manipulation of deformable objects is typically conducted on a limited range of scenarios, because handling each scenario on hardware takes significant effort. Realistic simulators with support for various types of deformations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Priya Sundaresan , Rika Antonova , Jeannette Bohg

We present a new computational method by extending the Immersed Boundary (IB) method with a spectrally-accurate geometric model based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation of the Lagrangian structures. Our specific motivation is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

Gradient-based optimization of engineering designs is limited by non-differentiable components in the typical computer-aided engineering (CAE) workflow, which calculates performance metrics from design parameters. While gradient-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Andrin Rehmann , Nolan Black , Josiah Bjorgaard , Alessandro Angioi , Andrei Paleyes , Niklas Heim , Dion Häfner , Alexander Lavin

Constrained radial basis function (RBF) regression has recently emerged as a powerful meshless tool for reconstructing continuous velocity fields from scattered flow measurements, particularly in image-based velocimetry. However, existing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Damien Rigutto , Manuel Ratz , Miguel A. Mendez

The Partition of Unity (PU) method, performed with local Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximants, has been proved to be an effective tool for solving large scattered data interpolation problems. However, in order to achieve a good…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Emma Perracchione

By means of post-processed cosmological Hydrodynamics simulations we explore the ability of the fossil record method to recover the stellar mass, age gradients, and global/radial star formation and mass growth histories of galaxies observed…

A comprehensive analysis of the cosmological large-scale structure derived from galaxy surveys involves field-level inference, which requires a forward modelling framework that simultaneously accounts for structure formation and tracer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 P. Rosselló , F. -S. Kitaura , D. Forero-Sánchez , F. Sinigaglia , G. Favole

Computation of observables and their gradients on near-term quantum hardware is a central aspect of any quantum algorithm. In this work, we first review standard approaches to the estimation of observables with and without quantum amplitude…

We present a novel learning-based method to build a differentiable computational model of a real fluorescence microscope. Our model can be used to calibrate a real optical setup directly from data samples and to engineer point spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Josue Page , Paolo Favaro

The suitability of cloud computing has been studied by several authors to run scientific applications. However, the unpredictable performance fluctuations in these environments hinders the migration of scientific applications to cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Vicent Giménez Alventosa , Germán Moltó Martínez , J. Damián Segrelles Quilis

We present the observational results of a survey for strong gravitational lens systems consisting of extended emission-line galaxies lensed by intervening early-type galaxies, conducted using integral field units (IFUs) of the Magellan…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam S. Bolton , Scott Burles

We present iGENE, a fully-differentiable TensorFlow implementation of the electromagnetic local nonlinear gyrokinetic model, which allows us to compute gradients of any simulation output with respect to any input via automatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Victor Artigues , Gabriele Merlo , Frank Jenko