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Tzumao Li
dblp:437/8338
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0001-5443-470XORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Computer animation and physical simulation · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computer animation and physical simulation
contact simulation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | YASPS: A Symbolic Framework for Extensible, High-Performance IPC Simulation · ACM Trans. Graph. 2026 |
Computer animation and physical simulation
differentiable simulation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | YASPS: A Symbolic Framework for Extensible, High-Performance IPC Simulation · ACM Trans. Graph. 2026 |
Computer animation and physical simulation › contact simulation
incremental potential contact |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | YASPS: A Symbolic Framework for Extensible, High-Performance IPC Simulation · ACM Trans. Graph. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
symbolic differentiation · 1.0iterative solver · 1.0GPU kernel compilation · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | YASPS: A Symbolic Framework for Extensible, High-Performance IPC SimulationabstractIncremental Potential Contact (IPC) has emerged as a robust and unifying formulation for contact-rich physical simulation by casting elasticity and collision handling as a single energy minimization problem. Achieving high performance, however, typically requires heavily specialized implementations that hard-code assumptions about energies, primitive types, and parameterizations, creating a major barrier to extensibility. Adding new energies or alternative parameterizations often requires re-deriving first and second-order derivatives, and implementing new assembly logic for the global Hessian and gradient. This challenge is further exacerbated by collision energies, where the same energy definition is often applied to mixed parameterizations, which can lead to a combinatorial explosion of parameterization-specific derivative and assembly cases. In this paper we introduce YASPS, a framework for physical simulation that resolves this limitation by making structural relationships explicit in a differentiable representation. YASPS introduces two relational operators, JOIN and UNION, which encode connectivity and heterogeneous parameterizations directly in the symbolic computation graph. Using symbolic differentiation over these operators, YASPS automatically derives local derivatives, and determines the induced sparsity and block structure of global gradients and Hessians from the same description while avoiding any code explosion induced by mixed-parameterizations. Targeting IPC workloads, YASPS compiles the resulting symbolic graphs into GPU kernels for local energy evaluation, derivative computation, and block-sparse matrix assembly, and solves the resulting Newton systems using a GPU-based iterative solver. This approach achieves performance competitive with state-of-the-art IPC implementations while enabling new energies and parameterizations to be added through localized symbolic definitions, without hand-written derivative or assembly code. Kemeng Huang, Gilbert Louis Bernstein, Minchen Li, Tzumao Li |
ACM Trans. Graph. | 5 |