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Reverse-mode autodiff
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A small backpropagation-style engine for multivariable gradients.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="A minimal backpropagation-style engine: one forward pass builds a computation graph, then one backward pass computes the gradient with respect to every input in a single traversal -- the technique underlying modern deep-learning frameworks, applied here to a small analytic function.">

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