v0.6.9

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.9

Diff since v0.6.8

Merged pull requests:

• Simplify DataInterpolations.jl extension (#210) (@adrhill)
• Relax type annotations in Jacobian output parsing (#217) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Failure to parse local Jacobian sparsity pattern (#216)

v0.6.8

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.8

Diff since v0.6.7

Merged pull requests:

• Increase code coverage (#206) (@adrhill)
• Support clamp and clamp! (#208) (@adrhill)
• Remove DuplicateVector (#209) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Fix DuplicateVector performance (#63)
• Overload lu on matrices of tracers (#138)
• Specialize array overloads (#192)
• clamp gives TypeError from julia 1.11 (#207)

v0.6.7

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.7

Diff since v0.6.6

Merged pull requests:

• Drop compatibility with Julia versions below LTS (#204) (@adrhill)
• Move @noinline into code generation utilities (#205) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Move @noinline into generated overloads once Julia 1.6 compatibility is dropped (#130)

v0.6.6

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.6

Diff since v0.6.5

Merged pull requests:

• Generate 2-to-1 overloads on arbitrary types (#197) (@adrhill)
• Fix JET and DataInterpolations tests (#198) (@adrhill)
• Update CI: test on LTS and pre-release build (#199) (@adrhill)
• Add ForwardDiff package extension (#200) (@adrhill)
• Fix detector display by replacing println with print (#201) (@gdalle)
• Avoid overwriting methods when generating 2-to-1 overloads on arbitrary types (#202) (@adrhill)
• Remove ForwardDiff extension (#203) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Interoperability with dual numbers (#196)

v0.6.5

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.5

Diff since v0.6.4

Merged pull requests:

• Fix "How it works" docs (#193) (@adrhill)
• Fix LogExpFunctions compat entry (#195) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Handle StaticArrays? (#144)

v0.6.4

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.4

Diff since v0.6.3

Merged pull requests:

• Make imports explicit, test with ExplicitImports.jl (#188) (@adrhill)
• Shorter printing of default detectors (#190) (@adrhill)
• Refer to TracerSparsityDetector as detector instead of method (#191) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Scalar operators to support (#74)
• Remove SparseArrays dependency? (#181)
• More concise printing of detector type? (#189)

v0.6.3

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.3

Diff since v0.6.2

• Add DataInterpolations.jl package extension (#178)
• Add LogExpFunctions.jl package extension (#184)
• Add NaNMath.jl package extension (#187)
• Support two-argument atan and log (#185)
• Document limitations of operator overloading utils (#180)
• Reexport ADTypes interface (#182)
• Update developer documentation URLs (#186)
• Reorganize code and update code generation utilities (#179, #183)

Merged pull requests:

• DataInterpolations support (#178) (@SouthEndMusic)
• Reorganize code (#179) (@adrhill)
• Document limitations of operator overloading utils (#180) (@adrhill)
• Minor fixes to documentation (#182) (@adrhill)
• Update code generation utilities (#183) (@adrhill)
• Add LogExpFunctions package extension (#184) (@adrhill)
• Add two-arg atan, log (#185) (@adrhill)
• Rename developer documentation folder (#186) (@adrhill)
• Add NaNMath package extension (#187) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Add package extension for NaNMath.jl (#170)
• Add package extension for LogExpFunctions.jl (#171)

v0.6.2

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.2

Diff since v0.6.1

• Return only primal value when applying non-differentiable methods to Dual numbers (#169)
• Increase sparsity for Diagonal inputs (#165)
• Add more methods on round, rand (#162)
• This release brings large updates to the documentation:
  • Document limitations (#175)
  • Document global vs. local patterns (#176)
  • Add "How it works" developer documentation (#174)
  • Add developer documentation on custom overloads (#177)
• Refactor type conversions (#173, #168, #166)
• Make comparisons regular operators (#169)
• Fix Hessian on NNlib activation functions celu, elu, selu, hardswish (#162)
• Fix isless (#161)

Merged pull requests:

• Fix isless and update tests (#161) (@adrhill)
• More methods for round and rand, fix NNlib (#162) (@adrhill)
• Increase sparsity for Diagonal inputs (#165) (@adrhill)
• Fix convert on Dual (#166) (@adrhill)
• Add direct type conversion on Dual (#168) (@adrhill)
• Return only primal when applying non-differentiable methods to Dual (#169) (@adrhill)
• Refactor type conversions (#173) (@adrhill)
• Add "How it works" developer documentation (#174) (@adrhill)
• Document limitations (#175) (@adrhill)
• Document global vs. local sparsity patterns (#176) (@adrhill)
• Document how to add custom overloads (#177) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Document control flow limitations of global tracers (#143)
• Add custom trace_input methods for LinearAlgebra matrix types (#147)
• Add support for round (#152)
• Another problem with isless (#153)
• Add guide on how to add custom overloads (#163)
• More problems regarding round (#164)
• Zero-derivative functions on dual numbers should only return the primal (#167)
• Behavior of zeros (#172)

v0.6.1

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.1

Diff since v0.6.0

• Improve the performance of Hessian pattern tracing by an order of magnitude:
  • Internally represent Hessian with dictionaries (#155, #158)
  • Increase performance via symmetry of Hessian (#151)
• Support ComponentArrays (#146)
• Support boolean not (!) (#150)
• Support isless (#149)

Merged pull requests:

• Support ComponentArrays (#146) (@gdalle)
• Support isless (#149) (@adrhill)
• Support boolean not ! (#150) (@adrhill)
• Increase performance via symmetry of Hessian (#151) (@adrhill)
• Bring back dictionaries for Hessian patterns (#155) (@adrhill)
• Rename variables in Hessian tracer code (#156) (@adrhill)
• Smaller benchmarks (#157) (@adrhill)
• Use DictHessianPattern as default tracer pattern (#158) (@adrhill)
• Remove randomness from benchmarks (#159) (@adrhill)
• Rename benchmarks to avoid parsing of tuples (#160) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Support more input types (#28)
• Potential increase in performance via symmetry of Hessian (#34)
• Is GPU support possible for Jacobian tracing? (#67)
• How to handle complex numbers? (#102)
• Add support for ComponentVector (#145)
• Missing negation (#148)
• Return Symmetric Hessians by default? (#154)

v0.6.0

SparseConnectivityTracer v0.6.0

Diff since v0.5.1

• Remove ConnectivityTracer (#140)
• Remove legacy interface (#140)
  • instead of jacobian_pattern(f, x), use jacobian_sparsity(f, x, TracerSparsityDetector())
  • instead of hessian_pattern(f, x), use hessian_sparsity(f, x, TracerSparsityDetector())
  • instead of local_jacobian_pattern(f, x), use jacobian_sparsity(f, x, TracerLocalSparsityDetector())
  • instead of local_hessian_pattern(f, x), use hessian_sparsity(f, x, TracerLocalSparsityDetector())
• Remove overloads on similar to reduce amount of invalidations (#132)
• Fix sparse array construction (#142)
• Add array overloads (#131)
• Generalize sparsity pattern representations (#139, #119)
• Reduce allocations of new tracers (#128)
• Reduce compile times (#119)

Merged pull requests:

• Fix typo in docs (#117) (@adrhill)
• Generalize sparsity pattern representations (#119) (@adrhill)
• Clean up NLPModels test suite (#121) (@gdalle)
• Add CITATION (#125) (@adrhill)
• Fix tracer overloads on exponent function (#126) (@adrhill)
• Slim down benchmark suite (#127) (@adrhill)
• Avoid allocating new tracers (#128) (@adrhill)
• Restructure code and rename operator traits (#129) (@adrhill)
• Add array overloads (#131) (@adrhill)
• Remove overloads on similar (#132) (@adrhill)
• Add shared Hessian tracer à la Walther (#135) (@gdalle)
• Put benchmark boilerplate into subpackage (#136) (@gdalle)
• Introduce sparsity patterns (#139) (@adrhill)
• Remove ConnectivityTracer and legacy API (#140) (@adrhill)
• Fix sparse array construction (#142) (@adrhill)

Closed issues:

• Add isempty flag to tracers (#80)
• Shared sets and sets with shared objects (#107)
• StackOverflow when creating SparseMatrixCSC with tracers as values (#108)
• Generalize first- and second-order information in HessianTracer (#114)
• Add AbstractArray{<:AbstractTracer} methods for common LinearAlgebra functions (#115)
• [documentation] typo in a Tracer (#116)
• Benchmarking against JuMP: faster on Jacobians, slower on Hessians (#118)
• ADNLPModels test suite fails (#120)
• SnoopCompile investigation (#122)
• Remove overloads on similar (#123)
• Missing sparse constructor overloads (#141)