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by data_maan 1415 days ago
Seems we're arguing about definitions. Currently differentiable programming seems to be this vaguely defined term (I don't get what you mean by smooth substitution), with autodiff being its only (proper) instantiation.

You say autodiff is actually not representative of differentiable programming. But if there aren't any other good examples that illustrate differentiable programming, how is differentiable programming (currently) more than autodiff?...