Talk announcement: A peek under the hood of automatic differentiation

Automatic differentiation is one of those things I wish someone had told me about much earlier. On Nov 5th 2024 I'll be sharing my enthousiasm about it at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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Title

A peek under the hood of automatic differentiation

Abstract

There are many packages implementing automatic differentiation available for free. This is good news because, as an engineer, it saves me time and keeps me away from reinventing the wheel. But as a researcher, I'm curiosity driven. I want to know, at least partially, what the packages I use do. I want to share some basic pen-an-paper concepts that, I hope, will satisfy your curiosity, and even enable you to write a basic automatic differentiation engine from scratch.

Spacetime coordinates

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, HG-09A16, Main building, Floor 9, Wing A
• Tue, 5 Nov 2024 13:00 - 17:00 CET

Links

• Registration link
• Event link

Materials

• Introductory
  • My talk's slides
  • Automatic differentiation from scratch
• Runnable examples
  • In Julia
  • In Python
• Advanced
  • Chris Rackauckas' book on SciML
• Miscelaneous
  • Differentiation without subtraction