Upstreaming Swift AutoDiff
Author: Richard Wei (rxwei@google.com) on behalf of the Swift for TensorFlow team
Last updated: October 2, 2019
Overview
The differentiable programming feature (AutoDiff) has been incubated in the 'tensorflow' branch of apple/swift since December 2017 and released as part of the Swift for TensorFlow toolchains. The Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal, which serves as a manifesto, received general positive feedback from the community, but there is a long way between receiving conceptual approval and obtaining Swift Evolution approval of such a large feature. We would like to merge the pieces into the 'master' branch under a gate to further development and bake the feature on master, just like Apple develops its major features