Chen, Xiaoyu; Cheng, Qiang; Song, Jinshuan; Chi, Xuebin; Wu, Wei Using automatic differentiation in the optimization of XIAMEN software. (Chinese. English summary) Zbl 1199.65066 J. Numer. Methods Comput. Appl. 30, No. 1, 21-29 (2009). Summary: Compared to the finite difference method, the automatic differentiation method has significant advantage in terms of the running time and the computational precision. By using the adjoint model to calculate gradients, the XIAMEN software is optimized with apparent speedup. The ADG software is used to automatically generate the adjoint model, which dramatically reduces the labors and the difficulty of the implementation process. Several related techniques are discussed and several testing results are presented. MSC: 65D25 Numerical differentiation 68W30 Symbolic computation and algebraic computation Keywords:automatic differentiation; gradient; tangent linear model; adjoint model; numerical examples; finite difference method; XIAMEN software; ADG software Software:XIAMEN PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{X. Chen} et al., J. Numer. Methods Comput. Appl. 30, No. 1, 21--29 (2009; Zbl 1199.65066)