Fitting Neural Textures and PBR Material Maps with ES (No Backprop)

> no backprop, no autodiff, no training framework

OP says it like it's a good thing, but doesn't explain why. To not rely on Pytorch? What's the benefit?

	▲	cyber_kinetist a day ago \| parent [-]
		The "no A, no B, no C" pattern is a phrase that's frequently generated by Claude Code.

yhjc2692 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Extremely cool stuff. I’m excited for neural approaches to further improve the bitrate frontier of “visually lossless” compression