JuliaDiff / JuliaDiff/ReverseDiff.jl
Perturbation Confusion (Nested Differentiation Bug)
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Description
I already mention this in ReverseDiff's documentation, but I'm opening this issue to increase visibility and track progress.
ReverseDiff has the same perturbation confusion issue as ForwardDiff. My plan to solve this in ReverseDiff is the same as my plan to solve this in ForwardDiff; the tag will be added to the TrackedArray/TrackedReal types (and possibly the tape types, I'm not sure yet).
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Research direction
Start with the existing ReverseDiff documentation and the linked ForwardDiff issue and plan. Determine how perturbation tags should be represented on TrackedArray and TrackedReal, and whether tape types are also involved. Done means nested differentiation no longer has perturbation confusion and the documented behavior is updated.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- julia
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100