HIPS/autograd

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Efficiently computes derivatives of NumPy code.

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Indexed issues: 159
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Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 17, 2026
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159 open issues indexed

Gradient of where() is sometimes erroneously NaN when the inactive case is NaN Open

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HIPS/autograd#802 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Gaps in NumPy API coverage: unwrapped subpackages and missing gradients Open

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HIPS/autograd#788 · Opened Jun 26, 2026
Convenience: cbrt and atan2. Open

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HIPS/autograd#752 · Opened Jan 15, 2026
support numpy.take Open

good first issue PR welcome

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HIPS/autograd#743 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2025
Add utility for debugging intermediate graph nodes values Open

enhancement PR welcome

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HIPS/autograd#706 · Opened Jun 20, 2025
Primitive called with ArrayBox object on forward pass when argument passed by keyword Open

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HIPS/autograd#681 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2025
Do away with `combo_check` and switch to test parametrization Open

enhancement good first issue PR welcome

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HIPS/autograd#662 · Opened Dec 2, 2024
Array API compatibility Open

enhancement PR welcome

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HIPS/autograd#649 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 15, 2024
Add Support for `numpy.convolve()` Open

PR welcome

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HIPS/autograd#644 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Implement better testing and against multiple NumPy versions Open

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HIPS/autograd#630 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2024
Support numpy.mgrid Open

PR welcome

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HIPS/autograd#623 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2024
Saving `ArrayBox` to hdf5 file Open

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HIPS/autograd#621 · Opened May 31, 2024
autograd return nan with to norm function Open

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HIPS/autograd#617 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 18, 2024
Autograd for quantum circuits Open

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HIPS/autograd#611 · Opened Nov 17, 2023
AttributeError: module 'autograd.numpy' has no attribute 'numpy_extra' Open

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HIPS/autograd#610 · Opened Nov 3, 2023
How do I create a scalar value that does not depend on the independent variables ? Open

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HIPS/autograd#609 · Opened Oct 10, 2023
`'ArrayBox' object has no attribute 'dot'` when differentiating function containing `x.dot(y)` Open

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HIPS/autograd#608 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2023
Can I differentiate this function？ Open

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HIPS/autograd#603 · Opened Jul 19, 2023
Is it possible to see gradient function? Open

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HIPS/autograd#587 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2023
Gradient become Nan for 0 value test Open

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HIPS/autograd#586 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 2, 2022
support for Jax-like custom forward pass definition? Open

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HIPS/autograd#585 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 24, 2022
Evaluating a section of a jacobian Open

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HIPS/autograd#582 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2022
Bug when raising zero to powers? Open

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HIPS/autograd#581 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 31, 2022
Input to holomorphic_grad is not complex Open

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HIPS/autograd#577 · Opened Apr 13, 2022
examples for jacobian and hessian Open

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HIPS/autograd#574 · Opened Jan 29, 2022
self defined gradient for certain value of input Open

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HIPS/autograd#573 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 8, 2022
Auto-diff of the root of a polynomial, with respect to some parameter defining the polynomial Open

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HIPS/autograd#569 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 22, 2021
Problem with Interpolation Autograd Friendly Open

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HIPS/autograd#568 · Opened May 11, 2021
ImportError: cannot import name 'logsumexp' from 'autograd.scipy.misc' (c:\users\utkarsh\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\autograd\scipy\misc.py) Open

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HIPS/autograd#562 · Opened Aug 14, 2020
Error: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'ArrayBox' Open

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HIPS/autograd#559 · Opened Jul 30, 2020
autograd.scipy.stats.norm.ppf not implemented Open

PR welcome

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HIPS/autograd#558 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2020
How to define the grad_func_paramter for a function for defvjp ? Open

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HIPS/autograd#557 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2020
Autograd ArrayBox with value issue Open

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HIPS/autograd#556 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 29, 2020
copy.deepcopy leads to incorrect gradient Open

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HIPS/autograd#555 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2020
np.array([object()]) fails Open

bug

HIPS/autograd#552 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 21, 2020
np.issubdtype(np.int32, np.integer) fails Open

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HIPS/autograd#551 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2020
check_grads (forward mode) fails on a simple custom function Open

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HIPS/autograd#550 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 8, 2020
Exception raised when computing the derivative of singular matrix Open

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HIPS/autograd#549 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 8, 2020
How to use autograd to differentiate a function that includes a call to an external function Open

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HIPS/autograd#547 · Opened Jan 31, 2020
module 'autograd.numpy' has no attribute 'char' Open

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HIPS/autograd#545 · Opened Nov 16, 2019
Efficient jacobians per residual Open

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HIPS/autograd#544 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 10, 2019
jacobian with tuple argnum crashes Open

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HIPS/autograd#542 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 4, 2019
How can I use autograd to generate code for backward pass? Open

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HIPS/autograd#539 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2019
how to get partial derivatives from discrete data? Open

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HIPS/autograd#531 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2019
Inconsistent behavior when using interpolator? Open

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HIPS/autograd#530 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2019
Implementing autograd on python function that depends on C code? Open

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HIPS/autograd#526 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 19, 2019
Function for *Full* Forward Mode Jacobian Open

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HIPS/autograd#524 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 13, 2019
`ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.` while using grad Open

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HIPS/autograd#515 · 10 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jun 28, 2019
Minimal example for the bug: `einstein sum subscripts string includes output subscript 'n' multiple times` Open

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HIPS/autograd#510 · Opened Jun 11, 2019
unusual result with odeint? Open

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HIPS/autograd#506 · Opened Jun 9, 2019

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