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We introduce DiffOpt.jl, a Julia library to differentiate through the solution of optimization problems with respect to arbitrary parameters present in the objective and/or constraints. The library builds upon MathOptInterface, thus…

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In this work, we introduce BurTorch, a compact high-performance framework designed to optimize Deep Learning (DL) training on single-node workstations through an exceptionally efficient CPU-based backpropagation (Rumelhart et al., 1986;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Konstantin Burlachenko , Peter Richtárik

This paper introduces a novel CUDA-enabled PyTorch-based framework designed for the gradient-based optimization of such reconfigurable electromagnetic structures with electrically tunable parameters. Traditional optimization techniques for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Johannes Müller , Dennis Philipp , Matthias Günther

ConArg is a Constraint Programming-based tool that can be used to model and solve different problems related to Abstract Argumentation Frameworks (AFs). To implement this tool we have used JaCoP, a Java library that provides the user with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-17 Stefano Bistarelli , Francesco Santini

Continual Learning is an important and challenging problem in machine learning, where models must adapt to a continuous stream of new data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. While existing frameworks are built on PyTorch, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Nikolaos Dimitriadis , Francois Fleuret , Pascal Frossard

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to describe a variety of physical phenomena. Often these equations do not have analytical solutions and numerical approximations are used instead. One of the common methods to solve PDEs is the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ivan Yashchuk

We introduce synax, a novel library for automatically differentiable simulation of Galactic synchrotron emission. Built on the JAX framework, synax leverages JAX's capabilities, including batch acceleration, just-in-time compilation, and…

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We present Rieoptax, an open source Python library for Riemannian optimization in JAX. We show that many differential geometric primitives, such as Riemannian exponential and logarithm maps, are usually faster in Rieoptax than existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Saiteja Utpala , Andi Han , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

Tuning scientific and probabilistic machine learning models $-$ for example, partial differential equations, Gaussian processes, or Bayesian neural networks $-$ often relies on evaluating functions of matrices whose size grows with the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Nicholas Krämer , Pablo Moreno-Muñoz , Hrittik Roy , Søren Hauberg

Fractional-order differentiation has many characteristics different from integer-order differentiation. These characteristics can be applied to the optimization algorithms of artificial neural networks to obtain better results. However, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaojun zhou , Chunna Zhao , Yaqun Huang , Chengli Zhou , Junjie Ye , Kemeng Xiang

Deep learning frameworks have often focused on either usability or speed, but not both. PyTorch is a machine learning library that shows that these two goals are in fact compatible: it provides an imperative and Pythonic programming style…

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

Deep Equilibrium (DEQ) Models, an emerging class of implicit models that maps inputs to fixed points of neural networks, are of growing interest in the deep learning community. However, training and applying DEQ models is currently done in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhengyang Geng , J. Zico Kolter

We introduce two block coordinate descent algorithms for solving optimization problems with ordinary differential equations (ODEs) as dynamical constraints. The algorithms do not need to implement direct or adjoint sensitivity analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ion Matei , Maksym Zhenirovskyy , Johan de Kleer , John Maxwell

Fast, gradient-based structural optimization has long been limited to a highly restricted subset of problems -- namely, density-based compliance minimization -- for which gradients can be analytically derived. For other objective functions,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Keith J. Lee , Yijiang Huang , Caitlin T. Mueller

Backpropagation is the default algorithm for training deep neural networks due to its simplicity, efficiency and high convergence rate. However, its requirements make it impossible to be implemented in a human brain. In recent years, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Albert Jiménez Sanfiz , Mohamed Akrout

Deep metric learning algorithms have a wide variety of applications, but implementing these algorithms can be tedious and time consuming. PyTorch Metric Learning is an open source library that aims to remove this barrier for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Kevin Musgrave , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

Softmax is widely used in neural networks for multiclass classification, gate structure and attention mechanisms. The statistical assumption that the input is normal distributed supports the gradient stability of Softmax. However, when used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shulun Wang , Bin Liu , Feng Liu

We introduce Atomistic learned potentials in JAX (apax), a flexible and efficient open source software package for training and inference of machine-learned interatomic potentials. Built on the JAX framework, apax supports GPU acceleration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Moritz René Schäfer , Nico Segreto , Fabian Zills , Christian Holm , Johannes Kästner

This article aims to demonstrate and discuss the applications of automatic differentiation (AD) for finding derivatives in PDE-constrained optimization problems and Jacobians in non-linear finite element analysis. The main idea is to…

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