JuliaDiff / JuliaDiff/ForwardDiff.jl
use `HessianConfig` to calculate gradients?
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Description
Hello,
Recently i came across with a problem in which already had a hessian cache, (HessianConfig + DiffResults.HessianResult), but it seems there aren't any methods for calculating for using HessianConfig (and HessianResult) when calculating gradients (of the same function with the same number and type of arguments).
I did this dirty hack to allow calculating gradients with HessianConfig + HessianResult:
hresult,hconfig = cache
h_jconfig = hconfig.jacobian_config
seeds = h_jconfig.seeds
duals = h_jconfig.duals[1]
gconfig = ForwardDiff.GradientConfig{Nothing,eltype(aux),length(seeds),typeof(duals)}(seeds,duals)
gresult = ForwardDiff.MutableDiffResult(result.value,(result.derivs[1],))
It works for me, but it could be generalized (by passing the adequate function argument, for example)
It would be much easier to just do ForwardDiff.gradient!(hresult,f,x,hconfig) instead.
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Start by tracing the existing HessianConfig, DiffResults.HessianResult, GradientConfig, and gradient! entry points to understand how cached Jacobian configuration is used. Compare the proposed HessianConfig-to-gradient path with the existing gradient result handling, then verify that gradient!(hresult, f, x, hconfig) produces the same gradients while reusing the cache.
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