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Comment by ddxv

9 hours ago

What is autodiff?

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nivter  9 hours ago

Automatic differentiation. For any DAG with a scalar output, it allows calculating its partial derivative wrt the input parameters.

  • Rexxar  2 hours ago

    I don't understand what the use automatic differentiation for in this context.

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