Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal

Re:Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal by __erik on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:51PM (#20891362)

I'm really excited for this. I'm unaware of any mainstream language with first class support for differentiation, I think its going to be really interesting to see what people use it for out side of ML.

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Re:Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal by adamnemecek on Thursday September 05, 2019 @07:09PM (#20891460)

Julia is in the same space.

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Re:Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal by taliesinb on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:35PM (#20892242)

Yup, work is continuing apace with Julia’s next-gen Zygote project.

Also, from the GP’s thought about applications beyond DL, my favorite examples so far are for model-based RL [1] and Neural ODEs [2]

[1] https://fluxml.ai/2019/03/05/dp-vs-rl.html

[2] https://julialang.org/blog/2019/01/fluxdiffeq

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Re:Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal by __erik on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:27PM (#20892201)

Julia is great but it doesnt play in the domain of apps and servers

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Re:Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal by byt143 on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:14AM (#20893927)

Yes it does. See genie.jl for a full mvc framework. Also there's mux.jl and http.jl.

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Re:Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal by mark_l_watson on Friday September 06, 2019 @09:53AM (#20895631)

It does. I spent several evenings writing little bits of Julia code that do “non numeric” stuff like querying RDF data stores, text processing, etc. I think Julia is a reasonable general purpose language.

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Re:Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal by ddragon on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:57PM (#20892634)

It does have a ton of numerical/data science/general science libraries to be differentiated and to add value to the differentiable code though.

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