automatic differentiation

English

Noun

automatic differentiation (uncountable)

  1. (mathematics, computing) Exact differentiation of functions represented in program code by inspecting the code (as opposed to mere evaluation) and repeated application of the chain rule.
    Synonym: autodifferentiation

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