Hacker News with Generative AI: Differentiation

An illustrated guide to automatic sparse differentiation (iclr-blogposts.github.io)
In numerous applications of machine learning, Hessians and Jacobians exhibit sparsity, a property that can be leveraged to vastly accelerate their computation.
Machine Learning, Optimization, Sparse Matrices, Differentiation
137 points by mariuz 60 days ago | 24 comments
Learning Category Trees for ID-Based Recommendation: Differentiable VQ (arxiv.org)
Category information plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality and personalization of recommender systems. Nevertheless, the availability of item category information is not consistently present, particularly in the context of ID-based recommendations.
Recommendation Systems, Machine Learning, Category Trees, Differentiation, VQ
4 points by RicoElectrico 257 days ago | 0 comments
Quaternion Differentiation (2012) (wordpress.com)
Mathematics, Differentiation, Quaternions
111 points by niborgen 365 days ago | 12 comments