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We introduce Combinatory Homomorphic Automatic Differentiation (CHAD), a principled, pure, provably correct define-then-run method for performing forward- and reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) on programming languages with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Matthijs Vákár , Tom Smeding

We show how the basic Combinatory Homomorphic Automatic Differentiation (CHAD) algorithm can be optimised, using well-known methods, to yield a simple, composable, and generally applicable reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Tom Smeding , Matthijs Vákár

We show how to apply forward and reverse mode Combinatory Homomorphic Automatic Differentiation (CHAD) to total functional programming languages with expressive type systems featuring the combination of - tuple types; - sum types; -…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Matthijs Vákár

We present semantic correctness proofs of forward-mode Automatic Differentiation (AD) for languages with sources of partiality such as partial operations, lazy conditionals on real parameters, iteration, and term and type recursion. We…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Matthijs Vákár

Completeness proofs in categorical semantics usually proceed by building a syntactic category whose composition is given by substitution. For untyped effectful Call-by-Value languages, this runs into a basic obstacle: there is no canonical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ariel Grunfeld , Liron Cohen

We show how to define forward- and reverse-mode automatic differentiation source-code transformations or on a standard higher-order functional language. The transformations generate purely functional code, and they are principled in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Matthijs Vákár

Automatic differentiation (AD) is a technique for computing the derivative of a function represented by a program. This technique is considered as the de-facto standard for computing the differentiation in many machine learning and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Amir Shaikhha , Mathieu Huot , Shabnam Ghasemirad , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Simon Peyton Jones , Dimitrios Vytiniotis

Automatic differentiation (AD) in reverse mode (RAD) is a central component of deep learning and other uses of large-scale optimization. Commonly used RAD algorithms such as backpropagation, however, are complex and stateful, hindering deep…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Conal Elliott

We propose and evaluate a new technique for learning hybrid automata automatically by observing the runtime behavior of a dynamical system. Working from a sequence of continuous state values and predicates about the environment, CHARDA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Adam Summerville , Joseph Osborn , Michael Mateas

We present semantic correctness proofs of automatic differentiation (AD). We consider a forward-mode AD method on a higher-order language with algebraic data types and we characterise it as the unique structure-preserving macro given a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mathieu Huot , Sam Staton , Matthijs Vákár

The recently introduced notions of guarded traced (monoidal) category and guarded (pre-)iterative monad aim at unifying different instances of partial iteration whilst keeping in touch with the established theory of total iteration and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Sergey Goncharov , Julian Jakob , Renato Neves

Continuous category discovery (CCD) aims to automatically discover novel categories in continuously arriving unlabeled data. This is a challenging problem considering that there is no number of categories and labels in the newly arrived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ruobing Jiang , Yang Liu , Haobing Liu , Yanwei Yu , Chunyang Wang

Building on the observation that reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) -- a generalisation of backpropagation -- can naturally be expressed as pullbacks of differential 1-forms, we design a simple higher-order programming language…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Carol Mak , Luke Ong

We study a dependently typed extension of a multi-stage programming language \`a la MetaOCaml, which supports quasi-quotation and cross-stage persistence for manipulation of code fragments as first-class values and an evaluation construct…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Akira Kawata , Atsushi Igarashi

Category theory is the language of homological algebra, allowing us to state broadly applicable theorems and results without needing to specify the details for every instance of analogous objects. However, authors often stray from the realm…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Skyler Marks

The lambda calculus, subject to typing restrictions, provides a syntax for the internal language of cartesian closed categories. This paper establishes a parallel result: staging annotations, subject to named level restrictions, provide a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Adam Megacz

The standard dual-numbers construction works well for forward-mode automatic differentiation (AD) and is attractive due to its simplicity; recently, it also has been adapted to reverse-mode AD, but practical performance, especially on array…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Tom Smeding , Mikołaj Konarski , Simon Peyton Jones , Andrew Fitzgibbon

Recent theoretical advances reveal that the Hadamard product induces nonlinear representations and implicit high-dimensional mappings for the field of deep learning, yet their practical deployment in resource-constrained vision models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xuyang Zhang , Xi Zhang , Liang Chen , Hao Shi , Qingshan Guo

We present semantic correctness proofs of Automatic Differentiation (AD). We consider a forward-mode AD method on a higher order language with algebraic data types, and we characterise it as the unique structure preserving macro given a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mathieu Huot , Sam Staton , Matthijs Vákár

This article provides an overview of some of the mathematical principles of Automatic Differentiation (AD). In particular, we summarise different descriptions of the Forward Mode of AD, like the matrix-vector product based approach, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Philipp H. W. Hoffmann
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