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Quick Summary
IBM owns the patent to the use of derivatives to find the convergents of a generalized continued fraction.
Here’s the bizarre thing: all they did was implement a number theory technique by Gauss, Euler and Ramanujan in PyTorch and call backward() on the computation graph.
Now IBM’s patent trolls can charge rent on a math technique that’s existed for over 200 years.
As always, code is available on Google Colab and GitHub.
1.0 Paper Introduction
The 2021 paper CoFrNets: Interpretable Neural Architecture Inspired by Continued Fractions (Puri et al., 2021) investigates the use of continued fractions in neural network design.
The paper takes 13 pages to assert: continued fractions (just like mlps) are universal approximators.
The authors reinvent the wheel countless times:
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