GSoC 2025 Projects Related To Clad

Clad enables automatic differentiation (AD) for C++. It is based on LLVM compiler infrastructure and is a plugin for Clang compiler. Clad is based on source code transformation. Given C++ source code of a mathematical function, it can automatically generate C++ code for computing derivatives of the function.

Project Proposals

• Implement and improve an efficient, layered tape with prefetching capabilities

• Enhancing LLM Training with Clad for efficient differentiation

• Enable Clad on ONNX-based models

• Enable automatic differentiation of OpenMP programs with Clad

• Integrate Clad to PyTorch and compare the gradient execution times

• Enable automatic differentiation of C++ STL concurrency primitives in Clad

• Support usage of Thrust API in Clad