Re: [julia-users] Re: AutoGrad port for Julia

2016-08-29 Thread Deniz Yuret
Hi Mosè, Thanks for the wonderful feedback! AutoGrad has some overhead for recording and differentiating primitive operators. However I think there is room for improvement - the current design has elements of the original Python package, anonymous functions, closures, etc. that are probably not

[julia-users] Re: AutoGrad port for Julia

2016-08-28 Thread Mosè Giordano
Hi Deniz, Announcing AutoGrad.jl : an > automatic differentiation package for Julia. It is a Julia port of the > popular Python autograd package. It > can differentiate regular Julia code that includes loops,

Re: [julia-users] Re: AutoGrad port for Julia

2016-08-26 Thread Deniz Yuret
I just discovered JuliaDiff , so I am not entirely sure yet. But here are my first impressions (JuliaDiff authors please correct me if I am wrong): * ForwardDiff : is not practical (takes too much space) when you have large

[julia-users] Re: AutoGrad port for Julia

2016-08-26 Thread Evan Fields
This looks really interesting. Can you give the high level comparison of how this compares to the various JuliaDiff tools and when to use one over the other?

[julia-users] Re: AutoGrad port for Julia

2016-08-26 Thread michael . creel
I've cloned it and tried it out with RC3. The mnist example runs fine. I'm looking forward to exploring it in more detail. Thanks! On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 8:51:30 AM UTC+2, Deniz Yuret wrote: > > Announcing AutoGrad.jl : an > automatic

Re: [julia-users] Re: AutoGrad port for Julia

2016-08-26 Thread Henri Girard
your welcome :) Le 26/08/2016 à 10:49, Deniz Yuret a écrit : Sorry about that. Here is the right link: https://github.com/denizyuret/AutoGrad.jl On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:38 AM Henri Girard > wrote: Your link autograd.jl seems

Re: [julia-users] Re: AutoGrad port for Julia

2016-08-26 Thread Deniz Yuret
Sorry about that. Here is the right link: https://github.com/denizyuret/AutoGrad.jl On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:38 AM Henri Girard wrote: > Your link autograd.jl seems dead ? > > > Le vendredi 26 août 2016 08:51:30 UTC+2, Deniz Yuret a écrit : >> >> Announcing

[julia-users] Re: AutoGrad port for Julia

2016-08-26 Thread Henri Girard
Your link autograd.jl seems dead ? Le vendredi 26 août 2016 08:51:30 UTC+2, Deniz Yuret a écrit : > > Announcing AutoGrad.jl : an > automatic differentiation package for Julia. It is a Julia port of the > popular Python autograd