Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

• Program: Inria International Partner

• Title: Sophia-Antipolis ARgonne DIfferentiation INitiativE

• Inria principal investigator: Laurent Hascoët

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • Argonne National Laboratory (USA) - Math and Computer Science - Paul Hovland

• Duration: 2012 - 2013

• We study theoretical and computer science aspects of Automatic Differentiation (AD) by source transformation. In the context of the adjoint mode of AD, which computes gradients, we focus on the storage-recomputation tradeoffs that are the key to efficiency. We also focus on the correct AD of message-passing communication calls that are found in parallel application. A third goal is the use into Uncertainty Quantification of higher-order derivatives produced through AD. From the point of view of tool development, we aim at building interfaces to bridge between the AD tools of our teams, OpenAD and tapenade .