This is a new engine for Descent 3, from the initial 1.5 source code release. It incorporates almost every change from InjectD3, among many more. At the moment, this includes the following features: ...

You heard it here first! The new Otis solver in Houdini 21 uses Vertex Block Descent! They made some nice improvements for stability, including several new hessian approximations. It also runs in ...

Abstract: Reconstructing high-quality images with few measurements has always been a primary goal for single-pixel imaging (SPI). Diffusion models have shown outstanding performance in image ...

Abstract: Stochastic optimization algorithms are widely used to solve large-scale machine learning problems. However, their theoretical analysis necessitates access to unbiased estimates of the true ...