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Document the interaction behaviour of `@grad` and `compile`.

Open jacobusmmsmit opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

TLDR:

This PR adds documentation to @grad that specifies what the @graded function should return, and documents that any variables defined outside of the returned adjoint function have their values frozen to their compiled ones.

Context:

In this discussion from issue #243 I fumbled my way through working out how @grad functions in relation to compile. Unsurprisingly to anyone who understands adjoints, I found out that any intermediate variables defined in the body of the function could be used but not updated when the gradient is compiled with compile.

This PR is just a bit of documentation added to the unexported macro @grad so that anyone else who dives into ReverseDiff might have an easier time concretely understanding the expected effects of compile.

Any suggestions on changes to language or wording are more than welcome.

jacobusmmsmit avatar Feb 13 '24 13:02 jacobusmmsmit

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