JuliaDiff / JuliaDiff/ChainRules.jl
Roadmap to v2
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Description
Many repos have a roadmap to v1.
This plan goes a little further.
The idea is:
ChainRules/ChainRulesCore v1:
- It pragmatically works.
- It is completely usable, and is in use by multiple AutoDiff systems by the time we tag v1.
- But it might play fast and lose with the math, like it will probably keep something like the current defintion of
AbstractDifferential, which conflates the idea of scaling and adding. - It has some edge cases that we just bail out on and don't handle representing. This may include complex deriviatives, and it probably will include mutation/nonpure functions.
- It will support Julia 1.0
ChainRules/ChainRulesCore v2:
- The math will be tighter
- After a while of use in public we will have identified the actual edge cases that matter of things we can't represent. and it will be enhanced to support those
- It may not support julia 1.0, e.g. might depend on features added in 1.3
This roadmap needs some refining,
but this was the big picture @willtebbutt and I were talking about
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing the existing ChainRules/ChainRulesCore v1 scope and Julia-version support, then refine the broad v2 goals into concrete changes and acceptance criteria before implementation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- julia
- Domain
- machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100