Structural foundations for differentiable programming

Thesis

This dissertation supports the broader thesis that categorical semantics is a powerful tool to study and design programming languages. It focuses on the foundational aspects of differentiable programming in a simply typed functional setting. Although most of the category theory used can be boiled down to a more elementary presentation, its influence was certainly key in obtaining the results presented in this dissertation. The conciseness of certain proofs and the compactness of...

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Authors: Huot, M

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-9oxvzg4g7
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: differentiable programming; semantics; category theory; automatic differentiation; functional programming
• Subjects: Denotational semantics; Automatic differentiation; Functional programming (Computer science)