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According to Microsoft, CNTK includes automatic differentiation. For better understanding the source (which I've successfully built) I'd like to know which C++ classes implement AD and how it is implemented in CNTK?










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      According to Microsoft, CNTK includes automatic differentiation. For better understanding the source (which I've successfully built) I'd like to know which C++ classes implement AD and how it is implemented in CNTK?










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      According to Microsoft, CNTK includes automatic differentiation. For better understanding the source (which I've successfully built) I'd like to know which C++ classes implement AD and how it is implemented in CNTK?







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          CNTK class Function implements the AD (via Gradients method, to be precise). Neural networks are represented as multiple Function compositions like g(f(x)). Then derivative of function g is computed with respect to f like this:



                                                                               derivative






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            CNTK class Function implements the AD (via Gradients method, to be precise). Neural networks are represented as multiple Function compositions like g(f(x)). Then derivative of function g is computed with respect to f like this:



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              CNTK class Function implements the AD (via Gradients method, to be precise). Neural networks are represented as multiple Function compositions like g(f(x)). Then derivative of function g is computed with respect to f like this:



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                CNTK class Function implements the AD (via Gradients method, to be precise). Neural networks are represented as multiple Function compositions like g(f(x)). Then derivative of function g is computed with respect to f like this:



                                                                                     derivative






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                CNTK class Function implements the AD (via Gradients method, to be precise). Neural networks are represented as multiple Function compositions like g(f(x)). Then derivative of function g is computed with respect to f like this:



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