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\begin{hcarentry}[new]{fad: Forward Automatic Differentiation}
\report{Bj\"orn Buckwalter}%05/09
\status{active}
\participants{Barak A.\ Pearlmutter, Jeffrey Mark Siskind}
\makeheader

Fad is an attempt to make as comprehensive and usable a forward
automatic differentiation (AD) library as is possible in Haskell.  Fad
\begin{inparaenum}[(a)]
\item attempts to be correct, by making it difficult to accidentally
  get a numerically incorrect derivative;
\item provides not only first-derivatives, but also a lazy tower of
  higher-order derivatives;
\item allows nested use of derivative operators while using the type
  system to reject incorrect nesting (perturbation confusion);
\item attempts to be complete, in the sense of allowing calculation of
  derivatives of functions defined using a large variety of Haskell
  constructs; and
\item tries to be efficient, in the sense of both the defining
  properties of forward automatic differentiation and in keeping the
  constant factor overhead as low as possible.
\end{inparaenum}

Version 1.0 of fad was uploaded to Hackage on April 3. Recent changes
can be found via \texttt{git clone git://github.com/bjornbm/fad.git}

\FurtherReading
\begin{compactitem}
\item \url{http://github.com/bjornbm/fad}
\item \url{http://flygdynamikern.blogspot.com/2009/04/announce-fad-10-forward-automatic.html}
\end{compactitem}
\end{hcarentry}