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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…

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We present an implementation of interval analysis and mixed monotone interval reachability analysis as function transforms in Python, fully composable with the computational framework JAX. The resulting toolbox inherits several key features…

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Traditional AI algorithms, such as Genetic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, often require extensive computational resources to simulate real-world physical scenarios effectively. While advancements in multi-core processing have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jörn Fischer , Thomas Ihme

Numerical simulations are ubiquitous in mathematics and computational science. Several industrial and clinical applications entail modeling complex multiphysics systems that evolve over a variety of spatial and temporal scales. This study…

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We present an efficient algorithm for motion planning and control of a robot system with a high number of degrees-of-freedom. These include high-DOF soft robots or an articulated robot interacting with a deformable environment. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Biao Jia , Zherong Pan , Dinesh Manocha

jinns is an open-source Python library for physics-informed neural networks, built to tackle both forward and inverse problems, as well as meta-model learning. Rooted in the JAX ecosystem, it provides a versatile framework for efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-19 Hugo Gangloff , Nicolas Jouvin

Dynamic languages have become popular for scientific computing. They are generally considered highly productive, but lacking in performance. This paper presents Julia, a new dynamic language for technical computing, designed for performance…

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We present PixelBrax, a set of continuous control tasks with pixel observations. We combine the Brax physics engine with a pure JAX renderer, allowing reinforcement learning (RL) experiments to run end-to-end on the GPU. PixelBrax can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Trevor McInroe , Samuel Garcin

Today, using multiple heterogeneous accelerators efficiently from applications and high-level frameworks, such as TensorFlow and Caffe, poses significant challenges in three respects: (a) sharing accelerators, (b) allocating available…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Manos Pavlidakis , Stelios Mavridis , Antony Chazapis , Giorgos Vasiliadis , Angelos Bilas

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

Automatic differentiation (AD) frameworks such as JAX and PyTorch have enabled gradient-based optimization for a wide range of scientific fields. Yet, many "hard" primitives in these libraries such as thresholding, Boolean logic, discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Anselm Paulus , A. René Geist , Vít Musil , Sebastian Hoffmann , Onur Beker , Georg Martius

We implement a trust region method on the GPU for nonlinear least squares curve fitting problems using a new deep learning Python library called JAX. Our open source package, JAXFit, works for both unconstrained and constrained curve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Lucas R. Hofer , Milan Krstajić , Robert P. Smith

Learning to manipulate objects efficiently, particularly those involving sustained contact (e.g., pushing, sliding) and articulated parts (e.g., drawers, doors), presents significant challenges. Traditional methods, such as robot-centric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shijie Fang , Wenchang Gao , Shivam Goel , Christopher Thierauf , Matthias Scheutz , Jivko Sinapov

Genetic programming is an optimization algorithm inspired by evolution which automatically evolves the structure of interpretable computer programs. The fitness evaluation in genetic programming suffers from high computational requirements,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Sigur de Vries , Sander W. Keemink , Marcel A. J. van Gerven

Deep Reinforcement Learning can play a key role in addressing sustainable energy challenges. For instance, many grid systems are heavily congested, highlighting the urgent need to enhance operational efficiency. However, reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Koen Ponse , Jan Felix Kleuker , Aske Plaat , Thomas Moerland

Recent researches on robotics have shown significant improvement, spanning from algorithms, mechanics to hardware architectures. Robotics, including manipulators, legged robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles, are now widely applied in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Zishen Wan , Bo Yu , Thomas Yuang Li , Jie Tang , Yuhao Zhu , Yu Wang , Arijit Raychowdhury , Shaoshan Liu

Mixed-precision training has emerged as an indispensable tool for enhancing the efficiency of neural network training in recent years. Concurrently, JAX has grown in popularity as a versatile machine learning toolbox. However, it currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Alexander Gräfe , Sebastian Trimpe

We present JAX-PF, an open-source, GPU-accelerated, and differentiable Phase Field (PF) software package, supporting both explicit and implicit time stepping schemes. Leveraging the modern computing architecture JAX, JAX-PF achieves high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fanglei Hu , Jiachen Guo , Stephen Niezgoda , Wing Kam Liu , Jian Cao

Enabling full robotic workloads with diverse behaviors on mobile systems with stringent resource and energy constraints remains a challenge. In recent years, attempts have been made to deploy single-accelerator-based computing platforms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Liu Liu , Shaoshan Liu , Zhe Zhang , Bo Yu , Jie Tang , Yuan Xie

Robotic systems are often complex and depend on the integration of a large number of software components. One important component in robotic systems provides the calculation of forward kinematics, which is required by both motion-planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Lukas Mölschl , Jakob J. Hollenstein , Justus Piater