Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
I'm curious (for folks in the know): how does differentiable programming handle non-differentiable points? Can it detect non-differentiable/non-smooth functions?<p>Non-smooth functions like abs(), max(), min() have points where derivatives do not exist. ReLU functions are non-differentiable at their hinge points.<p>Disjoint IF-THEN-ELSE conditions are discontinuities in the function space, and are traditionally handled in optimization with mixed-integer formulations (i.e. split up the space and do something clever like branch-and-bound to find the optimum).