Announcing the winners of the Tesseract Hackathon¶
This post originally appeared on Pasteur Labs Insights.
Introduction¶
The inaugural virtual Tesseract Hackathon has concluded, and we’re thrilled to announce the winners! Over thirty days, participants from around the world developed applications leveraging Tesseract’s differentiable pipeline capabilities to address real scientific challenges. The brief: use the differentiable pipeline capabilities of Tesseract for scientific impact, and publish all code under an open source license.
1st Place: Multi-Agent Differentiable Predictive Control for Zero-Shot PDE Scalability¶
Authors: Pietro Zanotta, Dibakar Roy, and Honghui Zheng
Source Code | Author submission
This project explores how agents in flow fields can coordinate without direct communication. The team employed a differentiable PDE solver wrapped as a Tesseract, enabling agents to learn action policies via gradient descent. Notably, policies trained on a set of 20 agents are still useful when actually deploying 60 agents.
2nd Place: DeepSwingr – A Differentiable Framework for Cricket Ball Swing Optimization¶
Author: Pavan Govindaraju
Source Code | Author Submission
This trajectory optimization pipeline comprises four specialized Tesseracts:
Physics backend – Calculates forces on the ball
Integrator – Performs numerical integration of the equations of motion
Swing logic – Higher-order Tesseract orchestrating integrator and physics components
Optimizer – Searches for optimal parameters
The modular design demonstrates Tesseract’s containerization benefits, allowing component substitution without code modifications.
Honorable Mentions¶
Diffopteract – Differentiable Optimization in JAX via Julia/JuMP Tesseract (Laurens Lueg)
DiffPIC – Differentiable Particle-in-Cell Optimization (Alejo Ballester, Rushan Zhang, Tage Burnett, Harshavardhan Harish)
Tesseract-pinn-inverse-burgers – Backend-Agnostic Inverse 1D Burgers Solver (Julian Chan)
Tesseract is a free, open-source framework for differentiable scientific computing. pip install tesseract-core.
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Social Media Bonus: PruneDeepONet¶
Author: Tomoki Koike
Source code | Author submission
This entry became far and away the most viral project among submissions, comparing two surrogate architectures using Tesseract.