Re:Differentiable Programming
by lebek on Saturday January 02, 2016 @08:28PM
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The idea's been around for a while, this 2014 paper describes a differentiable renderer: http://files.is.tue.mpg.de/black/papers/OpenDR.pdf
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It is much older than this. People have started to come up with all kinds of differentiable structures ever since they've found out that the leaning rule back-propagation of error can be derived using the chain rule in the early 1980s or so.