Tensor software

Tensor software is a class of mathematical software designed for manipulation and calculation with
tensors.

Standalone software
SPLATT[1] is an open source software package for high-performance sparse tensor
factorization. SPLATT ships a stand-alone executable, C/C++ library, and Octave/MATLAB
API.
Cadabra[2] is a computer algebra system (CAS) designed specifically for the solution of
problems encountered in field theory. It has extensive functionality for tensor polynomial
simplification including multi-term symmetries, fermions and anti-commuting variables,
Clifford algebras and Fierz transformations, implicit coordinate dependence, multiple index
types and many more. The input format is a subset of TeX. Both a command-line and a
graphical interface are available.
Tela[3] is a software package similar to MATLAB and GNU Octave, but designed specifically
for tensors.

Software for use with Mathematica

Tensor[4] is a tensor package written for the Mathematica system. It provides many functions
relevant for General Relativity calculations in general Riemann–Cartan geometries.
Ricci[5] is a system for Mathematica 2.x and later for doing basic tensor analysis, available
for free.
TTC[6] Tools of Tensor Calculus is a Mathematica package for doing tensor and exterior
calculus on differentiable manifolds.
EDC and RGTC,[7] "Exterior Differential Calculus" and "Riemannian Geometry & Tensor
Calculus," are free Mathematica packages for tensor calculus especially designed but not
only for general relativity.
Tensorial[8] "Tensorial 4.0" is a general purpose tensor calculus package for Mathematica.
xAct:[9] Efficient Tensor Computer Algebra for Mathematica. xAct is a collection of packages
for fast manipulation of tensor expressions.
GREAT[10] is a free package for Mathematica that computes the Christoffel connection and
the basic tensors of General Relativity from a given metric tensor.
Atlas 2 for Mathematica[11] is a powerful Mathematica toolbox which allows to do a wide
range of modern differential geometry calculations
GRTensorM[12] is a computer algebra package for performing calculations in the general
area of differential geometry.
MathGR[13] is a package to manipulate tensor and GR calculations with either abstract or
explicit indices, simplify tensors with permutational symmetries, decompose tensors from
abstract indices to partially or completely explicit indices and convert partial derivatives into
total derivatives.
TensoriaCalc[14] is a tensor calculus package written for Mathematica 9 and higher, aimed at
providing user-friendly functionality and a smooth consistency with the Mathematica
 language itself. As of January 2015, given a metric and the coordinates used, TensoriaCalc
can compute Christoffel symbols, the Riemann curvature tensor, and Ricci tensor/scalar; it
allows for user-defined tensors and is able to perform basic operations such as taking the
covariant derivatives of tensors. TensoriaCalc is continuously under development due to
time constraints faced by its developer.
OGRe[15] is a modern free and open-source Mathematica package for tensor calculus,
released in 2021 for Mathematica 12.0 and later. It is designed to be both powerful and user-
friendly, and is especially suitable for general relativity. OGRe allows performing arbitrarily
complicated tensor operations, and automatically transforms between index configurations
and coordinate systems behind the scenes as needed for each operation.

Software for use with Maple

GRTensorII[16] is a computer algebra package for performing calculations in the general
area of differential geometry.
Atlas 2 for Maple[17] is a modern differential geometry for Maple.
DifferentialGeometry[18] is a package which performs fundamental operations of calculus on
manifolds, differential geometry, tensor calculus, General Relativity, Lie algebras, Lie
groups, transformation groups, jet spaces, and the variational calculus. It is included with
Maple.
Physics[19] is a package developed as part of Maple, which implements symbolic
computations with most of the objects used in mathematical physics. It includes objects from
general relativity (tensors, metrics, covariant derivatives, tetrads etc.), quantum mechanics
(Kets, Bras, commutators, noncommutative variables) etc.

Software for use with Matlab

Tensorlab[20] is a MATLAB toolbox for multilinear algebra and structured data fusion.
Tensor Toolbox[21] Multilinear algebra MATLAB software.
MPCA and MPCA+LDA[22] Multilinear subspace learning software: Multilinear principal
component analysis.
UMPCA[23] Multilinear subspace learning software: Uncorrelated multilinear principal
component analysis.
UMLDA[24] Multilinear subspace learning software: Uncorrelated multilinear discriminant
analysis.

Software for use with Maxima

Maxima[25] is a free open source general purpose computer algebra system which includes several
packages for tensor algebra calculations in its core distribution. It is particularly useful for calculations with
abstract tensors, i.e., when one wishes to do calculations without defining all components of the tensor
explicitly. It comes with three tensor packages:[26]

itensor for abstract (indicial) tensor manipulation,

ctensor for component-defined tensors, and
 atensor for algebraic tensor manipulation.

Software for use with R

Tensor[27] is an R package for basic tensor operations.
rTensor[28] provides several tensor decomposition approaches.
nnTensor[29] provides several non-negative tensor decomposition approaches.
ttTensor[30] provides several tensor-train decomposition approaches.
tensorBF[31] is an R package for Bayesian Tensor decomposition.
MTF[32] Bayesian Multi-Tensor Factorization for data fusion and Bayesian versions of
Tensor PCA and Tensor CCA. Software: MTF (http://research.cs.aalto.fi/pml/software/mtf/).

Software for use with Python

TensorLy[33] provides several tensor decomposition approaches.

Software for use with Julia

TensorDecompositions.jl[34] provides several tensor decomposition approaches.
TensorToolbox.jl[35] provides several tensor decomposition approaches. This follows the
functionality of MATLAB Tensor toolbox and Hierarchical Tucker Toolbox.
ITensors.jl[36] is a library for rapidly creating correct and efficient tensor network algorithms.
This is the Julia version of ITensor, not a wrapper around the C++ version but full
implementations by Julia language.
TensorOperations.jl[37] provides fast tensor operations using a convenient Einstein index
notation.
TensorRules.jl[38] provides a macro, which enable us to use automatic differentiation (AD)
libraries (e.g., Zygote.jl, ForwardDiff.jl) with @tensor and @tensoropt macros in
TensorOperations.jl.

Software for use with SageMath

SageManifolds: tensor calculus on smooth manifolds; all SageManifolds[39] code is included
in SageMath since version 7.5; it allows for computations in various vector frames and
coordinate charts, the manifold not being required to be parallelizable.

Software for use with Java

ND4J: N-dimensional arrays for the JVM [40] is a Java library for basic tensor operations and
scientific computing.
 Tensor (https://github.com/idsc-frazzoli/tensor): computation for regular or unstructured multi-
dimensional tensors. Scalar entries are either in numeric or exact precision. API inspired by
Mathematica. Java 8 library in with no external dependencies.

Libraries
Redberry[41] is an open source computer algebra system designed for symbolic tensor
manipulation. Redberry provides common tools for expression manipulation, generalized on
tensorial objects, as well as tensor-specific features: indices symmetries, LaTeX-style input,
natural dummy indices handling, multiple index types etc. The HEP package includes tools
for Feynman diagrams calculation: Dirac and SU(N) algebra, Levi-Civita simplifications,
tools for calculation of one-loop counterterms etc. Redberry is written in Java and provides
extensive Groovy-based programming language.
libxm[42] is a lightweight distributed-parallel tensor library written in C.
FTensor[43] is a high performance tensor library written in C++.
TL[44] is a multi-threaded tensor library implemented in C++ used in Dynare++. The library
allows for folded/unfolded, dense/sparse tensor representations, general ranks
(symmetries). The library implements Faa Di Bruno formula and is adaptive to available
memory. Dynare++ is a standalone package solving higher order Taylor approximations to
equilibria of non-linear stochastic models with rational expectations.
vmmlib[45] is a C++ linear algebra library that supports 3-way tensors, emphasizing
computation and manipulation of several tensor decompositions.
Spartns[46] is a Sparse Tensor framework for Common Lisp.
FAstMat[47] is a thread-safe general tensor algebra library written in C++ and specially
designed for FEM/FVM/BEM/FDM element/edge wise computations.
Cyclops Tensor Framework [48] is a distributed memory library for efficient decomposition of
tensors of arbitrary type and parallel MPI+OpenMP execution of tensor
contractions/functions.
TiledArray[49] is a scalable, block-sparse tensor library that is designed to aid in rapid
composition of high-performance algebraic tensor equation. It is designed to scale from a
single multicore computer to a massively-parallel, distributed-memory system.
libtensor [50] is a set of performance linear tensor algebra routines for large tensors found in
post-Hartree–Fock methods in quantum chemistry.
ITensor [51] features automatic contraction of matching tensor indices. It is written in C++ and
has higher-level features for quantum physics algorithms based on tensor networks.
Fastor [52] is a high performance C++ tensor algebra library that supports tensors of any
arbitrary dimensions and all their possible contraction and permutation thereof. It employs
compile-time graph search optimisations to find the optimal contraction sequence between
arbitrary number of tensors in a network. It has high level domain specific features for solving
nonlinear multiphysics problem using FEM.
Xerus [53] is a C++ tensor algebra library for tensors of arbitrary dimensions and tensor
decomposition into general tensor networks (focusing on matrix product states). It offers
Einstein notation like syntax and optimizes the contraction order of any network of tensors at
runtime so that dimensions need not be fixed at compile-time.

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