Compositional Taylor expansion in cartesian differential categories
Logic in Computer Science
2025-05-23 v2
Abstract
This paper provides a compositional approach to Taylor expansion, in the setting of cartesian differential categories. Taylor expansion is captured here by a functor that generalizes the tangent bundle functor to higher order derivatives. The fundamental properties of Taylor expansion then boils down to naturality equations that turns this functor into a monad. This monad provides a categorical approach to higher order dual numbers and the jet bundle construction used in automated differentiation.
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@article{arxiv.2502.09066,
title = {Compositional Taylor expansion in cartesian differential categories},
author = {Aymeric Walch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.09066},
year = {2025}
}