arXiv Machine Learning

Differentiate the Solver, Not the Equation: Reverse-Sweep Adjoints for Block Implicit Simulation

arXiv:2608. 08559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentiable simulation is a key component in learning, control, and inverse problems, where gradients through nonlinear implicit solvers are required.

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Aug 9

Differentiate the Solver, Not the Equation: Reverse-Sweep Adjoints for Block Implicit Simulation

Differentiable simulation is a key component in learning, control, and inverse problems, where gradients through nonlinear implicit solvers are required. Existing approaches either rely on unrolled automatic differentiation, whose memory grows with solver depth, or on equation-level implicit differentiation, which assembles global Jacobians and solves large sparse adjoint systems, discarding the locality of the forward solver -- and differentiating the converged equation rather than the finite computation that actually ran.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 29

Mosaic: A Benchmark Suite for Differentiable Physics Solvers

arXiv:2606. 27895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentiable partial differential equation (PDE) solvers underpin solver-in-the-loop ML training, gradient-based optimal control, and inverse problems, yet the practical cost of obtaining correct, usable gradients from a given solver on a given problem is largely undocumented.

By Andrin Rehmann, Heiko Zimmermann, Dion H\"afner
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

A fast direct solver based neural network for solving PDEs

arXiv:2606. 19895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The matrices arising from large scale $N$-body problems can be efficiently represented using hierarchical matrices, whose key idea is that the admissible off-diagonal sub-matrices can be well approximated by low-rank matrices across a hierarchy of matrix partitions.

By Jashwanth Reddy Kadaru, Vaishnavi Gujjula
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

One-shot acceleration of transient PDE solvers via online-learned preconditioners

arXiv:2509. 08765v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data-driven acceleration of scientific computing workflows has been a high-profile aim of machine learning (ML) for science, with numerical simulation of transient partial differential equations (PDEs) being one of the main applications.

By Mikhail Khodak, Min Ki Jung, Brian Wynne, Edmond Chow, Egemen Kolemen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Scalable Deep Unfolding of Conic Optimizers

arXiv:2606. 13825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep unfolding (DU) accelerates iterative optimizers by introducing learnable components and training them through unrolled iterations, but extending DU to the large-scale semidefinite programs (SDPs) common in robotics has remained limited.

By Alex Oshin, Rahul Vodeb Ghosh, Evangelos A. Theodorou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Adjoint Method versus Physics-Informed Neural Networks in PDE-Constrained Inverse Problems

arXiv:2606. 12337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to computational mechanics and are commonly solved by adjoint-based optimization, while physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a flexible alternative.

By Zhen Zhang, Alessandro Alla, George Em Karniadakis