> By the way, do you think futhark could support automatic differentiation? I don't see why not. It's similar to other languages that have been the subject of

> By the way, do you think futhark could support automatic differentiation? I don't see why not. It's similar to other languages that have been the subject of AD research: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/07/autodiff-icfp-2019.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0... Concretely, we've only experimented with the usual forward-mode stuff with dual numbers implemented as a library. It works well, but is of course limited in utility.