Rev calls to mem fn #4

parth-07 · 2022-03-11T16:00:42Z

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This commit adds support for differentiating calls to member functions in the reverse mode AD. This commit introduces a breaking change in the signature of derived member functions. Earlier we were considering data members to be constant while differentiating member functions. This is no longer the case, and thus now we need a separate variable to store derivative of the function value with respect to implicit `this` pointer. To allow users to obtain derivatives with respect to the implicit `this` object, derived member function prototype has been changed to include a derivative parameter for the implicit `this` pointer. For example: ```cpp struct SomeStruct { double memFn(double i, long double j) {...} }; ``` This function will have the gradient function as follows: ```cpp void memFn(double i, long double j, clad::array_ref<SomeStruct> _d_this, clad::array_ref<double> _d_i, clad::array_ref<double> _d_j) {...} ```

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