# DiffTaichi: Differentiable Programming for Physical Simulation

*Source* · `src-hu-2020-difftaichi` · status: **n/a**

| field | value |
|---|---|
| kind | Peer-reviewed paper |
| authors | Yuanming Hu, Luke Anderson, Tzu-Mao Li, Qi Sun, Nathan Carr, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Fredo Durand |
| venue | ICLR 2020 |
| date | 2019-10-01 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00935 |
| arxiv | 1910.00935 |
| accessed | 2026-10-24 |

## Notes

10 differentiable simulators; elastic simulator 4.2x shorter than hand CUDA at similar speed and 188x faster than TensorFlow; controllers optimized in tens of iterations.

## Backlinks (computed)

**cited by:** [Differentiable simulation](../technique/differentiable-simulation.md)

## Citation

Yuanming Hu, Luke Anderson, Tzu-Mao Li, Qi Sun, Nathan Carr, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Fredo Durand (2019-10-01). *DiffTaichi: Differentiable Programming for Physical Simulation*. ICLR 2020 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00935

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