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@RussTorres RussTorres commented Nov 10, 2026

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This PR introduces a number of performance enhancements for our thin plate spline implementation. This came about from trying to represent and simplify mesh transformations originally derived from FEABAS.

Anecdotally, I was seeing ~30x single-thread speedups in 5000 control point runs in both fitting and simplifying the transformation. I am also seeing ~2x speedups in inversion (based on the new methods) when changing from the "gradient descent" fixed-point iteration method to newton iteration, mostly from much faster convergence.

Changes:

  • Chunked vectorized deformation contribution and apply methods
  • scale and translation normalization for fit method
  • implement scipy.special.xlogy
  • improved array management everywhere
  • reduce matrix size in fit w/ x,y RHS columns
  • cdist for sqeuclidean residuals
  • consider symmetry in solve
  • simplified gradient descent implementation
  • optional newton iteration based inversion: more expensive, but faster-converging

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RussTorres added 7 commits November 6, 2026 15:45
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tps: _tps_kernel utility method
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tps: simplify gradient descent method
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tps: add newton iteration inversion method
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tps: restructure imports
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