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

(richg42.blogspot.com)

14 points | by ibobev 2 days ago ago

3 comments

  • cl3misch 2 days ago ago

    > 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 ago

      The "no A, no B, no C" pattern is a phrase that's frequently generated by Claude Code.

  • yhjc2692 2 days ago ago

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