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why is `SemFiniteDiff` not part of `AutoDiffSEM`?

Open aaronpeikert opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

aaronpeikert avatar Jun 16 '22 14:06 aaronpeikert

Because finite difference approximation is not automatic differentiation, and I think it is a good idea to have some functionality in the core package for people that don't want/can specify gradients for their loss function but also dont want to get into automatic differentiation (i.e. want to use the old-school approach)

Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst avatar Jun 16 '22 14:06 Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst

Makes sense! Let us keep the issue open as a reminder to note FiniteDiff as an alternative in the documentation of AutoDiffSem.

aaronpeikert avatar Jun 16 '22 15:06 aaronpeikert