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differentiationinterface.jl

An interface to various automatic differentiation backends in Julia.

https://github.com/juliadiff/differentiationinterface.jl

Science Score: 54.0%

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Keywords

autodiff automatic-differentiation differentiation julia machine-learning

Keywords from Contributors

fluxes the-human-brain ode meshing interpretability julialang standardization differential-equations simulations optim
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An interface to various automatic differentiation backends in Julia.

Basic Info
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  • Stars: 271
  • Watchers: 8
  • Forks: 25
  • Open Issues: 57
  • Releases: 119
Topics
autodiff automatic-differentiation differentiation julia machine-learning
Created about 2 years ago · Last pushed 6 months ago
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README.md

DifferentiationInterface/README.md

Owner

  • Name: JuliaDiff
  • Login: JuliaDiff
  • Kind: organization

Differentiation Tools in Julia

Citation (CITATION.cff) 

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title: DifferentiationInterface.jl
message: >-
  If you use this software, please cite it using the
  metadata from this file, and also cite the AbstractDifferentiation.jl software.
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Guillaume
    family-names: Dalle
    email: guillaume.dalle@enpc.fr
    affiliation: >-
      LVMT, ENPC, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Univ
      Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, France
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-1687'
  - given-names: Adrian
    family-names: Hill
    email: hill@tu-berlin.de
    affiliation: 'Machine Learning Group, BIFOLD, TU Berlin'
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5977-301X'
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.11092033
    description: Zenodo DOI
repository-code: 'https://github.com/JuliaDiff/DifferentiationInterface.jl'
abstract: >-
  An interface to various automatic differentiation backends
  in Julia.
keywords:
  - automatic differentiation
  - julia
license: MIT
references:
  - title: >-
      AbstractDifferentiation.jl: Backend-Agnostic
      Differentiable Programming in Julia
    type: software
    authors:
      - given-names: Frank
        family-names: Schäfer
        orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2684-4984'
      - given-names: Mohamed
        family-names: Tarek
        orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3074-0678'
      - given-names: Lyndon
        family-names: White
        orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1386-1646'
      - given-names: Chris
        family-names: Rackauckas
        orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5850-0663'
    identifiers:
      - type: other
        value: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12449'
        description: Arxiv
    repository-code: 'https://github.com/JuliaDiff/AbstractDifferentiation.jl'
    abstract: An abstract interface for automatic differentiation.
    license: MIT
preferred-citation:
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  authors:
  - family-names: "Dalle"
    given-names: "Guillaume"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-1687"
  - family-names: "Hill"
    given-names: "Adrian"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5977-301X"
  title: "A Common Interface for Automatic Differentiation"
  year: 2025
  eprint: "2505.05542"
  archivePrefix: "arXiv"
  primaryClass: "cs.MS"
  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05542"
  doi: "10.48550/arXiv.2505.05542"

Committers

Last synced: 9 months ago

All Time
  • Total Commits: 485
  • Total Committers: 20
  • Avg Commits per committer: 24.25
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.148
Past Year
  • Commits: 305
  • Committers: 18
  • Avg Commits per committer: 16.944
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.148
Top Committers
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Guillaume Dalle 2****e 413
Adrian Hill a****l@m****g 26
github-actions[bot] 4****] 20
Will Tebbutt w****1@m****k 4
dependabot[bot] 4****] 4
Hong Ge 3****i 2
Penelope Yong p****m@g****m 2
Qingyu Qu 5****Y 2
Alain Marcotte n****e@g****m 1
Andreas Scheidegger a****r@e****h 1
Bart van de Lint 3****1 1
Carlo Lucibello c****o@g****m 1
ExpandingMan E****n 1
Felix Wechsler f****t@m****g 1
Francis Gagnon 3****a 1
Fredrik Bagge Carlson b****n@g****m 1
Gabriel Gerlero g****o 1
Niklas Schmitz n****z@g****m 1
Vaibhav Kumar Dixit v****t@g****m 1
mattsignorelli 1****i 1
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
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Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time
  • Total issues: 138
  • Total pull requests: 297
  • Average time to close issues: about 2 months
  • Average time to close pull requests: 5 days
  • Total issue authors: 33
  • Total pull request authors: 18
  • Average comments per issue: 5.23
  • Average comments per pull request: 1.56
  • Merged pull requests: 247
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 23
Past Year
  • Issues: 99
  • Pull requests: 224
  • Average time to close issues: about 1 month
  • Average time to close pull requests: 4 days
  • Issue authors: 30
  • Pull request authors: 18
  • Average comments per issue: 5.52
  • Average comments per pull request: 1.32
  • Merged pull requests: 179
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 21
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Top Authors
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  • gdalle (43)
  • ErikQQY (8)
  • MilesCranmer (4)
  • tpapp (3)
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  • yebai (3)
  • mattsignorelli (2)
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  • baggepinnen (1)
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  • gdalle (255)
  • github-actions[bot] (24)
  • adrhill (12)
  • penelopeysm (5)
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  • ErikQQY (4)
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  • CarloLucibello (2)
  • baggepinnen (2)
  • mattsignorelli (2)
  • franckgaga (2)
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Top Labels
Issue Labels
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Packages

  • Total packages: 2
  • Total downloads:
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  • Total dependent packages: 1
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  • Total dependent repositories: 0
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  • Total versions: 120
juliahub.com: DifferentiationInterfaceTest

An interface to various automatic differentiation backends in Julia.

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Dependent repos count: 9.6%
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Dependent packages count: 38.7%
Last synced: 6 months ago
juliahub.com: DifferentiationInterface

An interface to various automatic differentiation backends in Julia.

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  • Dependent Packages: 1
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Downloads: 19,438 Total
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Dependent repos count: 9.6%
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Dependent packages count: 38.7%
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