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Record W4413134912 · doi:10.1145/3759245

Extending <tt>Irksome</tt> : Improvements in Automated Runge–Kutta Time Stepping for Finite Element Methods

2025· article· en· W4413134912 on OpenAlexafffund
Robert C. Kirby, Scott MacLachlan

Bibliographic record

VenueACM Transactions on Mathematical Software · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Science Foundation
KeywordsRunge–Kutta methodsSolverComputer scienceFinite element methodPartial differential equationApplied mathematicsDiagonalComputational scienceMathematical optimizationAlgorithmDifferential equationMathematicsProgramming languageMathematical analysisGeometry

Abstract

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Irksome is a library based on the Unified Form Language (UFL) that enables automated generation of Runge–Kutta methods for time-stepping finite element spatial discretizations of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Allowing users to express semidiscrete forms of PDEs, it generates UFL representations for the stage-coupled variational problems to be solved at each timestep. The Firedrake package then generates efficient code for evaluating these variational problems and allows users a wide range of options to deploy efficient algebraic solvers in PETSc. In this article, we describe several recent advances in Irksome . These include alternate formulations of the Runge–Kutta time-stepping methods and optimized support for diagonally implicit (DIRK) methods. Additionally, we present new and improved tools for building preconditioners for the resulting linear and linearized systems, demonstrating that these can lead to efficient approaches for solving fully implicit Runge–Kutta discretizations. The new features are demonstrated through a sequence of computational examples demonstrating the high-level interface and obtained solver performance.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.076

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0040.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.014

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.349 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

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