JAX Adds Custom Opaque Types Enabling Differentiable Rasterization
srush_nlp · x · 2026-08-01
Sasha Rush highlighted a new feature in the JAX framework: support for opaque types with custom tangents.
A cool use case for this feature is the proper handling of batched geometric objects. The thread includes a short demo of differentiable rasterization, showing how to fit a photo using 1500 triangles by minimizing the L2 distance. The author noted that it is interesting to see differentiable computing move beyond traditional tensors.
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