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Interesting; this is the first I've heard of automatic differentiation and it's quite elegant and exact. Do you know why it's not covered more in academia?
by xxbondsxx 14y ago
Interesting; this is the first I've heard of automatic differentiation and it's quite elegant and exact. Do you know why it's not covered more in academia?
- mierle 14y agoI've wondered the same myself. It's rather popular in industry. I hadn't head of it until coming to Google. Fun fact: backpropagation for neural networks, which is really just a fancy word for computing the derivatives of the cost, is equivalent to reverse mode autodiff.