autodiff VS FastAD

Compare autodiff vs FastAD and see what are their differences.

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autodiff FastAD
7 1
1,532 92
2.5% -
7.5 2.5
21 days ago 7 months ago
C++ C++
MIT License MIT License
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autodiff

Posts with mentions or reviews of autodiff. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-22.

FastAD

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  • WG21 January 2021 Mailing
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 22 Jan 2021
    What stage is the differentiation proposal in? It seems odd they talked about reverse mode AD but made no mention of memory management for it. They also don't mention anything about FastAD or Stan Math which I think do some pretty innovative things in this space.

What are some alternatives?

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Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout - A set of tools for graph layout and viewing

Mission : Impossible (AutoDiff) - A concise C++17 implementation of automatic differentiation (operator overloading)