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About this paper
Max Sagebaum, Nicolas R. Gauger
A novel C++ Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) tool is presented, leveraging expression templates to efficiently differentiate Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). This tool associates AD identifiers with entire data entities, preserving primal data memory layouts for compiler optimizations, which substantially improves performance and reduces memory footprint for computations heavy in DSL operations like linear algebra.
Key insights
- Preserving the contiguous memory layout of primal data by associating AD identifiers with entire entities is critical for enabling compiler optimizations and achieving high performance in AD.
- Integrating AD directly with Domain Specific Languages through expression templates allows for the exploitation of specialized, more efficient adjoint algorithms tailored to higher-level operations, leading to dramatic performance gains.
- Careful tape design, including primal value taping and optimized memory management for intermediate values, is essential for minimizing memory consumption and achieving near-optimal runtime factors for reverse-mode AD in DSL-heavy contexts.
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