Double backwards

07/07/2021 16 min Episodio 41
Double backwards

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Episode Synopsis

Double backwards is PyTorch's way of implementing higher order differentiation. Why might you want it? How does it work? What are some of the weird things that happen when you do this?Further reading.Epic PR that added double backwards support for convolution initially https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/1643