Automatic differentiation is no panacea for phylogenetic gradient computation

2 code implementations • 3 Nov 2022 • Mathieu Fourment, Christiaan J. Swanepoel, Jared G. Galloway, Xiang Ji, Karthik Gangavarapu, Marc A. Suchard, Frederick A. Matsen IV

Gradients of probabilistic model likelihoods with respect to their parameters are essential for modern computational statistics and machine learning.

Variational Inference