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by platz 3093 days ago
> It's really very much like a regular progam, except it's parameterized, automatically differentiated, and trainable/optimizable.

> People are now actively working on compilers for imperative differentiable programming languages.

Do you have an example of either of these things?

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I believe https://github.com/google/tangent counts, though I'm not 100% sure.
From the thread, LeCun mentions:

"Look at papers by Jeff Siskind and Barak Barak A. Pearlmutter particularly their work on VLAD, Stalingrad and VLD."

Erik Meijer gave a talk about this at KotlinConf last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeHrApPWlo