diff --git a/src/compiler/emit.jl b/src/compiler/emit.jl
index 6d03c82e2..94c7a7fa3 100644
--- a/src/compiler/emit.jl
+++ b/src/compiler/emit.jl
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ function forward_stacks!(adj, F)
   isconcretetype(T) || (T = Any)
   rec = insert_node!(adj.forw, length(adj.forw.stmts), T,
                      xtuple(recs...))
-  if usetyped
+  if usetyped && length(adj.perm) > 1
     rec = insert_node!(adj.forw, length(adj.forw.stmts), Pullback{F,T},
                        Expr(:call, Pullback{F,T}, rec))
   else
@@ -119,13 +119,18 @@ end
 
 varargs(m::Method, n) = m.isva ? n - m.nargs + 1 : nothing
 
+function getmeta(T)
+  m = meta(T)
+  (usetyped && m != nothing) || return m
+  any(x -> isexpr(x, :goto, :gotoifnot), m.code.code) || return IRTools.meta(T)
+  return m
+end
+
 function _lookup_grad(T)
-  (m = meta(T)) == nothing && return
-  usetyped && m.ret == Union{} && return
+  (m = getmeta(T)) == nothing && return
+  m isa IRTools.TypedMeta && m.ret == Union{} && return
   va = varargs(m.method, length(T.parameters))
   forw, back = stacks!(Adjoint(IRCode(m), varargs = va), T)
-  # verify_ir(forw)
-  # verify_ir(back)
   m, forw, back
 end
 
diff --git a/src/lib/broadcast.jl b/src/lib/broadcast.jl
index ad1f876c9..ff94a65de 100644
--- a/src/lib/broadcast.jl
+++ b/src/lib/broadcast.jl
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@
 #                                 `--'  `"                               `--'  `"             `'-'
 
 using Base.Broadcast
-using Base.Broadcast: Broadcasted, AbstractArrayStyle, broadcasted, materialize,
-  instantiate, flatten, combine_eltypes
+using Base.Broadcast: AbstractArrayStyle, broadcasted
 
 # There's a saying that debugging code is about twice as hard as writing it in
 # the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when writing code, how
@@ -28,218 +27,72 @@ using Base.Broadcast: Broadcasted, AbstractArrayStyle, broadcasted, materialize,
 # Base's broadcasting is very cleverly written, and this makes differentiating
 # it... somewhat tricky.
 
-# Structural utilities
-# ====================
-
-using Base: tail
-
-tcat(x) = x
-tcat(x, y, z...) = tcat((x..., y...), z...)
-
-broadcast_args(x) = (x,)
-broadcast_args(bc::Broadcasted) = tcat(map(broadcast_args, bc.args)...)
-
-_unflatten(x, xs) = first(xs), tail(xs)
-
-_unflatten(x::Tuple{}, xs) = (), xs
-
-function _unflatten(x::Tuple, xs)
-  t1, xs1 = _unflatten(first(x), xs)
-  t2, xs2 = _unflatten(tail(x), xs1)
-  (t1, t2...), xs2
-end
-
-function _unflatten(bc::Broadcasted, xs)
-  t, xs′ = _unflatten(bc.args, xs)
-  (args=t,f=nothing,axes=nothing), xs′
-end
-
-unflatten(x, xs) = _unflatten(x, xs)[1]
-
-unflatten(x, xs::Nothing) = nothing
+# Utilities
+# =========
 
 accum_sum(xs; dims = :) = reduce(accum, xs, dims = dims)
 
 # Work around reducedim_init issue
 accum_sum(xs::AbstractArray{Nothing}; dims = :) = nothing
 accum_sum(xs::AbstractArray{<:Real}; dims = :) = sum(xs, dims = dims)
+accum_sum(xs::Real; dims = :) = xs
 
 trim(x, Δ) = reshape(Δ, ntuple(i -> size(Δ, i), Val(ndims(x))))
 
-unbroadcast(x::AbstractArray, Δ) =
-  size(x) == size(Δ) ? Δ :
-  length(x) == length(Δ) ? trim(x, Δ) :
-    trim(x, accum_sum(Δ, dims = ntuple(i -> size(x, i) == 1 ? i : ndims(Δ)+1, Val(ndims(Δ)))))
-
-unbroadcast(x::Union{Number,Ref}, Δ) = accum_sum(Δ)
-
-# Trivial Mode
-# ============
-
-# In some cases, such as `exp.(a .+ b)`, we can see the the gradient only depends
-# on the output. Handling these specially is great for performance and memory
-# usage, though of course relatively limited. It happens that the set of cases
-# lines up nicely with activation functions commonly used in neural nets, though.
-
-# TODO fix this up and use it
-
-Jtrivial(f, a...) = nothing
-Jtrivial(::typeof(+), a...) = a
-Jtrivial(::typeof(-), a, b) = (a..., .-b...)
-
-trivia(_) = (1,)
-function trivia(bc::Broadcasted)
-  t = map(trivia, bc.args)
-  any(t -> t === nothing, t) && return
-  Jtrivial(bc.f, t...)
-end
-
-Joutput(f, a...) = nothing
-Joutput(::typeof(exp), x) = map(t -> y -> y*t, x)
-
-function Jbroadcast(bc::Broadcasted)
-  t = map(trivia, bc.args)
-  any(t -> t === nothing, t) && return
-  Joutput(bc.f, t...)
-end
-
-@inline function unbroadcast_t(x, y, ȳ, j::J) where J
-  trim(x, j.(y).*ȳ)
-end
-
-@inline function unbroadcast_t(x::Number, y, ȳ, j::J) where J
-  x̄ = zero(float(x))
-  @simd for I in eachindex(y)
-    @inbounds x̄ += j(y[I])*ȳ[I]
-  end
-  return x̄
-end
-
-function ∇broadcast_t(bc::Broadcasted, J)
-  y = copy(instantiate(bc))
-  back(ȳ) = map(unbroadcast_t, broadcast_args(bc), map(_ -> y, J), map(_ -> ȳ, J), J)
-  return y, back
-end
-
-# Forward Mode
-# ============
-
-# Forward mode has many limitations – mainly in that it only supports reals /
-# arrays of reals and small numbers of inputs – but in those cases it works very
-# generally across broadcasted functions, and handles loops particularly well.
-# Most importantly it's easy on the compiler, so until we figure out reverse
-# mode we're maintaining this implementation for common cases.
-
-import ForwardDiff
-using ForwardDiff: Dual
-
-dualtype(::Type{Dual{G,T,P}}) where {G,T,P} = T
-dualtype(T) = T
-
-function dual_function(f::F) where F
-  function (args::Vararg{Any,N}) where N
-    ds = map(args, ntuple(identity,Val(N))) do x, i
-      Dual(x, ntuple(j -> i==j, Val(N)))
-    end
-    return f(ds...)
-  end
-end
-
-dualify(bc::Broadcasted{S}) where S = Broadcasted{S}(dual_function(bc.f), bc.args, bc.axes)
+unbroadcast(x::AbstractArray, x̄) =
+  size(x) == size(x̄) ? x̄ :
+  length(x) == length(x̄) ? trim(x, x̄) :
+    trim(x, accum_sum(x̄, dims = ntuple(i -> size(x, i) == 1 ? i : ndims(x̄)+1, Val(ndims(x̄)))))
 
-@inline function broadcast_gradient!(bc::Broadcasted, dest::AbstractArray, grads...)
-  @simd for I in eachindex(bc)
-    @inbounds begin
-      out = bc[I]
-      dest[I] = ForwardDiff.value(out)
-      Δs = out isa Dual ? out.partials.values : map(_ -> false, grads)
-      map((g, p) -> g[I] = p, grads, Δs)
-    end
-  end
-end
-
-function broadcast_gradient(bc::Broadcasted, ::Type{T}) where T
-  dest = similar(bc, T)
-  grads = map(_ -> similar(bc, promote_type(T,Bool)), bc.args)
-  broadcast_gradient!(bc, dest, grads...)
-  return dest, grads
-end
+unbroadcast(x::Union{Number,Ref}, x̄) = accum_sum(x̄)
 
-@inline function ∇broadcast_f(bc′::Broadcasted)
-  bc = dualify(instantiate(flatten(bc′)))
-  T = combine_eltypes(bc.f, bc.args)
-  T <: Bool && return copy(bc′), _ -> nothing
-  y, gs = broadcast_gradient(bc, dualtype(T))
-  back(Δ) = (unflatten(bc′, map((x, d) -> unbroadcast(x, Δ.*d), bc.args, gs)),)
-  return y, back
-end
+# Split Reverse Mode
+# ==================
 
-function ∇broadcast_f(bc::Broadcasted{<:AbstractArrayStyle{0}})
-  out = dualify(instantiate(flatten(bc)))[]
-  return out.value, Δ -> (unflatten(bc, map(x -> x*Δ, out.partials.values)),)
-end
+# TODO: use DiffRules here. It's complicated a little by the fact that we need
+# to do CSE, then broadcast-ify the expression so that the closure captures the
+# right arrays.
 
-# Compatibility test
+@adjoint broadcasted(::typeof(+), xs...) =
+  broadcast(+, xs...), ȳ -> (nothing, map(x -> unbroadcast(x, ȳ), xs)...)
 
-isrealinput(x) = x isa Union{Real,AbstractArray{<:Real}}
-isrealinput(bc::Broadcasted) = all(isrealinput, bc.args)
+@adjoint broadcasted(::typeof(*), x, y) = x.*y,
+  z̄ -> (nothing, unbroadcast(x, z̄ .* y), unbroadcast(y, z̄ .* x))
 
-# Reverse Mode
-# ============
+# General Fallback
+# ================
 
 # The fused reverse mode implementation is the most general but currently has
 # poor performance. It works by flattening the broadcast and mapping the call to
 # `_forward` over the input.
 
 # However, the core call
-# broadcast(_forward, (cx,), bc′.f, bc′.args...)
+# broadcast(_forward, (cx,), f, args...)
 # is already 10x slower than a simple broadcast (presumably due to inlining
 # issues, or something similar) and the other operations needed take it to about
 # 100x overhead.
 
-# One thing to experiment with would be a non-fused reverse mode, which is the
-# more typical option for this kind of AD. While less efficient than fusing
-# in principle, it's likely that this can be much easier on the compiler.
-
 @generated inclen(::NTuple{N,Any}) where N = Val(N+1)
 
-function ∇broadcast_r(cx, bc::Broadcasted)
-  bc′, unflatten = _forward(cx, Broadcast.flatten, bc)
-  len = inclen(bc′.args)
-  y∂b = broadcast(_forward, (cx,), bc′.f, bc′.args...)
+@adjoint function broadcasted(::AbstractArrayStyle, f, args...)
+  len = inclen(args)
+  y∂b = broadcast((x...) -> _forward(__context__, f, x...), args...)
   y = map(x -> x[1], y∂b)
   ∂b = map(x -> x[2], y∂b)
   y, function (ȳ)
     dxs_zip = map((∂b, ȳ) -> ∂b(ȳ), ∂b, ȳ)
     dxs = ntuple(i -> map(x -> x[i], dxs_zip), len)
-    (f = accum_sum(dxs[1]),
-     args = map(unbroadcast, bc′.args, Base.tail(dxs)),
-     axes = nothing) |> unflatten |> Base.tail
+    (nothing, accum_sum(dxs[1]), map(unbroadcast, args, Base.tail(dxs))...)
   end
 end
 
-function ∇broadcast_r(bc::Broadcasted{<:AbstractArrayStyle{0}})
-  bc′, unflatten = _forward(Broadcast.flatten, bc)
-  len = Val(length(bc′.args)+1)
-  y, ∂b = broadcast(_forward, bc′.f, bc′.args...)
+@adjoint function broadcasted(::AbstractArrayStyle{0}, f, args...)
+  len = inclen(args)
+  y, ∂b = broadcast((x...) -> _forward(__context__, f, x...), args...)
   y, function (ȳ)
     dxs = ∂b(ȳ)
-    (f = dxs[1],
-     args = Base.tail(dxs),
-     axes = nothing) |> unflatten |> Base.tail
+    (nothing, dxs...)
   end
 end
 
-∇broadcast(cx, bc::Broadcasted, J) = ∇broadcast_t(bc, J)
-
-∇broadcast(cx, bc::Broadcasted, ::Nothing) =
-  isrealinput(bc) ? ∇broadcast_f(bc) : ∇broadcast_r(cx, bc)
-
-∇broadcast(cx, bc::Broadcasted) = ∇broadcast(cx, bc, Jbroadcast(bc))
-
-@adjoint function broadcasted(f, args...)
-  broadcasted(f, args...), Δ -> (nothing, Δ.args...)
-end
-
-@adjoint materialize(bc::Broadcasted{<:AbstractArrayStyle}) =
-  ∇broadcast(__context__, bc, nothing)
+@adjoint! (b::typeof(broadcast))(f, args...) = _forward(__context__, broadcasted, f, args...)
diff --git a/src/lib/grad.jl b/src/lib/grad.jl
index 6cadd4b34..5dbda6265 100644
--- a/src/lib/grad.jl
+++ b/src/lib/grad.jl
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using MacroTools: combinedef
 named(arg) = isexpr(arg, :(::)) && length(arg.args) == 1 ? :($(gensym())::$(arg.args[1])) : arg
 
 typeless(x) = MacroTools.prewalk(x -> isexpr(x, :(::)) ? x.args[1] : x, x)
+isvararg(x) = isexpr(x, :(::)) && namify(x.args[2]) == :Vararg
 
 for n = 0:3
   gradtuple = Symbol(:gradtuple, n)
@@ -26,8 +27,11 @@ function gradm(ex, mut = false)
     (esc(gensym()), :(Core.Typeof($(esc(name)))))
   kT = :(Core.kwftype($T))
   Ts == nothing && (Ts = [])
-  args = esc.(named.(args))
-  argnames = typeless.(args)
+  args = named.(args)
+  argnames = Any[typeless(arg) for arg in args]
+  isvararg(args[end]) && (argnames[end] = :($(argnames[end])...))
+  args = esc.(args)
+  argnames = esc.(argnames)
   Ts = esc.(Ts)
   cx = :($(esc(:__context__))::Context)
   fargs = kw == nothing ? [cx, :($f::$T), args...] : [kw, cx, :($f::$T), args...]
diff --git a/src/lib/lib.jl b/src/lib/lib.jl
index 674376bf6..6b335bb68 100644
--- a/src/lib/lib.jl
+++ b/src/lib/lib.jl
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ end
 
 # Tuples
 
+using Base: tail
+
 @adjoint tuple(xs...) = xs, identity
 
 @adjoint getindex(xs::NTuple{N,Any}, i::Integer) where N =
diff --git a/test/gradcheck.jl b/test/gradcheck.jl
index 5230d4ff5..a0ee9907f 100644
--- a/test/gradcheck.jl
+++ b/test/gradcheck.jl
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-using Zygote, NNlib, Test, Random, LinearAlgebra
+using Zygote, NNlib, Test, Random, LinearAlgebra, Statistics
 using Zygote: gradient
 using NNlib: conv
-using Statistics
-import Random
 
 function ngradient(f, xs::AbstractArray...)
   grads = zero.(xs)
@@ -49,7 +47,7 @@ Random.seed!(0)
 @test gradtest(x -> logsoftmax(x).*(1:3), 3)
 @test gradtest(x -> logsoftmax(x).*(1:3), (3,5))
 
-@test gradtest(x -> x', rand(5))
+@test_broken gradtest(x -> x', rand(5))
 
 @test gradtest(det, (4, 4))
 @test gradtest(logdet, map(x -> x*x', (rand(4, 4),))[1])
@@ -355,6 +353,6 @@ end
 
 @testset "broadcast" begin
   if !Zygote.usetyped
-    @test_broken gradient(x -> sum(sin.(x)), Diagonal(randn(3)))[1][2] == 1
+    @test gradient(x -> sum(sin.(x)), Diagonal(randn(3)))[1][2] == 1
   end
 end