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In scientific computation, it is often necessary to calculate higher-order derivatives of a function. Currently, two primary methods for higher-order automatic differentiation exist: symbolic differentiation and algorithmic automatic…
Higher order derivatives of functions are structured high dimensional objects which lend themselves to many alternative representations, with the most popular being multi-index, matrix and tensor representations. The choice between them…
This paper demonstrates new methods and implementations of nonlinear solvers with higher-order of convergence, which is achieved by efficiently computing higher-order derivatives. Instead of computing full derivatives, which could be…
Taylor series methods show a newfound promise for the solution of non-stiff ordinary differential equations (ODEs) given the rise of new compiler-enhanced techniques for calculating high order derivatives. In this paper we detail a new…
Scientific studies often require the precise calculation of derivatives. In many cases an analytical calculation is not feasible and one resorts to evaluating derivatives numerically. These are error-prone, especially for higher-order…
Symbolic computation for systems of differential equations is often computationally expensive. Many practical differential models have a form of polynomial or rational ODE system with specified outputs. A basic symbolic approach to analyze…
We address the task of higher-order derivative evaluation of computer programs that contain QR decompositions and real symmetric eigenvalue decompositions. The approach is a combination of univariate Taylor polynomial arithmetic and matrix…
In this article, we propose a new numerical approach to high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in the valuation of exotic derivative securities. The proposed method is extended from Reisinger and Wittum (2007) and…
In this article we develop a method for the strong approximation of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by L\'evy processes or general semimartingales. The main ingredients of our method is the perturbation of the SDE and the…
Continuous-time trajectory representation has recently gained popularity for tasks where the fusion of high-frame-rate sensors and multiple unsynchronized devices is required. Lie group cumulative B-splines are a popular way of representing…
Derivatives play a critical role in computational statistics, examples being Bayesian inference using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling and the training of neural networks. Automatic differentiation is a powerful tool to automate the…
Fast prototyping of new SE(3) estimation objectives remains awkward in practice. Modern Lie-group frameworks -- GTSAM, manif, Sophus, SymForce, Ceres -- target first-order workloads through different code-generation and…
Weighted finite-state machines are a fundamental building block of NLP systems. They have withstood the test of time -- from their early use in noisy channel models in the 1990s up to modern-day neurally parameterized conditional random…
We develop a compositional approach for automatic and symbolic differentiation based on categorical constructions in functional analysis where derivatives are linear functions on abstract vectors rather than being limited to scalars,…
Optimizing neural networks with loss that contain high-dimensional and high-order differential operators is expensive to evaluate with back-propagation due to $\mathcal{O}(d^{k})$ scaling of the derivative tensor size and the…
This paper is concerned with the efficient evaluation of higher-order derivatives of functions $f$ that are composed of matrix operations. I.e., we want to compute the $D$-th derivative tensor $\nabla^D f(X) \in \mathbb R^{N^D}$, where…
Differential equations parameterized by neural networks become expensive to solve numerically as training progresses. We propose a remedy that encourages learned dynamics to be easier to solve. Specifically, we introduce a differentiable…
In this paper, we provide some of the necessary mathematics to describe higher order Lions-Taylor expansions. The Lions derivative of a functional on the Wasserstein space of measures quantifies infinitesimal perturbations on measures in…
A four dimensional treatment of nonrelativistic space-time gives a natural frame to deal with objective time derivatives. In this framework some well known objective time derivatives of continuum mechanics appear as Lie-derivatives. Their…
This paper introduces a new computational framework to derive electromagnetic field derivatives with respect to multiple design parameters up to any order with the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) technique. Specifically, only one FDTD…