diff --git a/gsoc.md b/gsoc.md index 3f45910..5aa4b39 100644 --- a/gsoc.md +++ b/gsoc.md @@ -84,3 +84,29 @@ The ideal candidate should have practical experience with training deep learning - A new FluxML package, FluxBenchmarks.jl, that will perform configurable benchmarking across our ML stack. - Github Actions integration for FluxBenchmarks.jl to invoke the tool from PRs. - A benchmarking suite that will build your experience with different types of ML models and operations across the stack. + + + + +## Tape based automated differentiation engine in Julia + +Write a new AD engine in julia and integrate it into the FluxML environment. + +**Difficulty.** Hard. **Duration.** 350 hours + +### Description + +TODO: Why is this needed? State of the current ADs. Advantages of tape-based ADs. + +**Mentors.** [Marius Drulea](https://github.com/jpsamaroo), [Kyle Daruwalla](https://github.com/darsnack) + +### Prerequisites + +- Strong knowledge of graph processing algorightms +- Familiarity with the machine learning methods: forward and backward pass and gradient descent +- Good programming skills in any of the languages: Julia, Python, C++, Java, C# is required. +- Julia language is nice to know, but not an absoute requierement. + +### Your contributions + +TODO