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[docs] update autodiff tutorial #3836
[docs] update autodiff tutorial #3836
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Perhaps add a disclaimer:
While DI makes it easier to experiment with different autodiff tools, this comes at a cost. In particular, DI may produce slower derivatives than using an AD tool directly, and sometimes fail to work at all. For example, in this code passing AutoEnzyme to DI fails to differentiate the code which is supported when directly calling Enzyme, like above.
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By the way do you have any idea why it fails here? As usual it's a segfault so not particularly user friendly
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No idea, I haven’t even tried to run it or seen what the error message, just took your word that it failed xD.
open an issue with the mwe and error and can take a look
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I don't want to mention something in our documentation if this is the case.
What is the failure mode? Will we gracefully report errors? Segfaults are not good.
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Oh agreed in that segfaults are bad, in that case @gdalle just drop DI docs then?
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I realized my changes mean we never actually mention Enzyme in the context of DI, so perhaps that's okay.
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Again haven't seen the error message so not clear what's up, but I'm unaware of any segfaults caused by Enzyme atm. Most the time people saw segfaults in the past were actually bugs in the Julia compiler itself (e.g. JuliaLang/julia#55306 ).
That said unfortunately even if you're not the underlying cause of an error, the top level package you use is going to be the one people blame for issues (especially if code works otherwise without it). Analogously, there's a ton of code in Enzyme working around bugs in the Julia and LLVM compiler errors =/. Perhaps something similar would be good in DI?
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It is not DI's job to work around LLVM errors, it's Enzyme's or Julia's. DI is a fancy argument-passer
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And here's the MWE: EnzymeAD/Enzyme.jl#1942
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For the record, pure Enzyme also fails on this one when one uses
splat(f)