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Automatic differentiation. For any DAG with a scalar output, it allows calculating its partial derivative wrt the input parameters.

I don't understand what the use automatic differentiation for in this context.

Some use cases and examples are provided here: https://www.tinyvolt.com/blog/bringing-autodiff-to-geometry

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