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<span id="id1"></span><h1>Gradcheck mechanics<a class="headerlink" href="#gradcheck-mechanics" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>This note presents an overview of how the <a class="reference internal" href="../generated/torch.autograd.gradcheck.html#torch.autograd.gradcheck" title="torch.autograd.gradcheck"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gradcheck()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="../generated/torch.autograd.gradgradcheck.html#torch.autograd.gradgradcheck" title="torch.autograd.gradgradcheck"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gradgradcheck()</span></code></a> functions work.</p>
<p>It will cover both forward and backward mode AD for both real and complex-valued functions as well as higher-order derivatives.
This note also covers both the default behavior of gradcheck as well as the case where <code class="code docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fast_mode=True</span></code> argument is passed (referred to as fast gradcheck below).</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#notations-and-background-information" id="id2">Notations and background information</a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#fast-backward-mode-gradcheck" id="id7">Fast backward mode gradcheck</a></p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Notations and background information</a><a class="headerlink" href="#notations-and-background-information" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Throughout this note, we will use the following convention:</p>
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<li><p><span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">x</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span></span></span></span></span>, <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">y</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span>, <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>a</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">a</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span></span></span></span></span>, <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>b</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">b</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span></span></span></span></span>, <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span></span></span></span></span>, <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span>, <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">ur</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">ui</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6595em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span></span></span></span></span> are real-valued vectors and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">z</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.04398em;">z</span></span></span></span></span> is a complex-valued vector that can be rewritten in terms of two real-valued vectors as <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">z = a + i b</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.04398em;">z</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6667em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ib</span></span></span></span></span>.</p></li>
<li><p><span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>M</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span> are two integers that we will use for the dimension of the input and output space respectively.</p></li>
<li><p><span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo>:</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>N</mi></msup><mo>→</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f: \mathcal{R}^N \to \mathcal{R}^M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> is our basic real-to-real function such that <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">y = f(x)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span>.</p></li>
<li><p><span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>g</mi><mo>:</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">C</mi><mi>N</mi></msup><mo>→</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">g: \mathcal{C}^N \to \mathcal{R}^M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.05834em;">C</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> is our basic complex-to-real function such that <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>g</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>z</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">y = g(z)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.04398em;">z</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span>.</p></li>
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<p>For the simple real-to-real case, we write as <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">J_f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.9694em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> the Jacobian matrix associated with <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span></span> of size <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>M</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>N</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">M \times N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7667em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">×</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span>.
This matrix contains all the partial derivatives such that the entry at position <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>i</mi><mo separator="true">,</mo><mi>j</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">(i, j)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mpunct">,</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.1667em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.05724em;">j</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span> contains <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><msub><mi>y</mi><mi>i</mi></msub></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><msub><mi>x</mi><mi>j</mi></msub></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\partial y_i}{\partial x_j}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.4745em;vertical-align:-0.5423em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.9322em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">x</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3281em;"><span style="top:-2.357em;margin-left:0em;margin-right:0.0714em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.5em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size3 size1 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.05724em;">j</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2819em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.4461em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3281em;"><span style="top:-2.357em;margin-left:-0.0359em;margin-right:0.0714em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.5em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size3 size1 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">i</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.143em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.5423em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span></span></span></span></span>.
Backward mode AD is then computing, for a given vector <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span></span></span></span></span> of size <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>M</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span>, the quantity <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v^T J_f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.1274em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.
Forward mode AD on the other hand is computing, for a given vector <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span> of size <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span>, the quantity <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">J_f u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.9694em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
<p>For functions that contain complex values, the story is a lot more complex. We only provide the gist here and the full description can be found at <a class="reference internal" href="autograd.html#complex-autograd-doc"><span class="std std-ref">Autograd for Complex Numbers</span></a>.</p>
<p>The constraints to satisfy complex differentiability (Cauchy-Riemann equations) are too restrictive for all real-valued loss functions, so we instead opted to use Wirtinger calculus.
In a basic setting of Wirtinger calculus, the chain rule requires access to both the Wirtinger derivative (called <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">W</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> below) and the Conjugate Wirtinger derivative (called <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> below).
Both <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">W</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> need to be propagated because in general, despite their name, one is not the complex conjugate of the other.</p>
<p>To avoid having to propagate both values, for backward mode AD, we always work under the assumption that the function whose derivative is being calculated is either a real-valued function or is part of a bigger real-valued function. This assumption means that all the intermediary gradients we compute during the backward pass are also associated with real-valued functions.
In practice, this assumption is not restrictive when doing optimization as such problem require real-valued objectives (as there is no natural ordering of the complex numbers).</p>
<p>Under this assumption, using <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">W</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> definitions, we can show that <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>C</mi><msup><mi>W</mi><mo>∗</mo></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">W = CW^*</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6887em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.6887em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mbin mtight">∗</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> (we use <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mo>∗</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">*</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4653em;"></span><span class="mord">∗</span></span></span></span></span> to denote complex conjugation here) and so only one of the two values actually need to be “backwarded through the graph” as the other one can easily be recovered.
To simplify internal computations, PyTorch uses <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2 * CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> as the value it backwards and returns when the user asks for gradients.
Similarly to the real case, when the output is actually in <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{R}^M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, backward mode AD does not compute <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2 * CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> but only <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v^T (2 * CW)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.0913em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span> for a given vector <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi><mo>∈</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v \in \mathcal{R}^M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.5782em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">∈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
<p>For forward mode AD, we use a similar logic, in this case, assuming that the function is part of a larger function whose input is in <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{R}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal">R</span></span></span></span></span>. Under this assumption, we can make a similar claim that every intermediary result corresponds to a function whose input is in <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{R}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal">R</span></span></span></span></span> and in this case, using <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">W</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> definitions, we can show that <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">W = CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> for the intermediary functions.
To make sure the forward and backward mode compute the same quantities in the elementary case of a one dimensional function, the forward mode also computes <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2 * CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span>.
Similarly to the real case, when the input is actually in <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>N</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{R}^N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, forward mode AD does not compute <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2 * CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> but only <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">(2 * CW) u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span> for a given vector <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mo>∈</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>N</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u \in \mathcal{R}^N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.5782em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">∈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="default-backward-mode-gradcheck-behavior">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Default backward mode gradcheck behavior</a><a class="headerlink" href="#default-backward-mode-gradcheck-behavior" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Real-to-real functions</a><a class="headerlink" href="#real-to-real-functions" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>To test a function <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo>:</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>N</mi></msup><mo>→</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup><mo separator="true">,</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f: \mathcal{R}^N \to \mathcal{R}^M, x \to y</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.0358em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mpunct">,</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.1667em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span>, we reconstruct the full Jacobian matrix <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">J_f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.9694em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> of size <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>M</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>N</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">M \times N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7667em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">×</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span> in two ways: analytically and numerically.
The analytical version uses our backward mode AD while the numerical version uses finite difference.
The two reconstructed Jacobian matrices are then compared elementwise for equality.</p>
<div class="section" id="default-real-input-numerical-evaluation">
<h4>Default real input numerical evaluation<a class="headerlink" href="#default-real-input-numerical-evaluation" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>If we consider the elementary case of a one-dimensional function (<span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>N</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N = M = 1</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span></span>), then we can use the basic finite difference formula from <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_difference">the wikipedia article</a>. We use the “central difference” for better numerical properties:</p>
<div class="math">
<span class="katex-display"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>x</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo>≈</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>−</mo><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\partial y}{\partial x} \approx \frac{f(x + eps) - f(x - eps)}{2 * eps}
</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:2.0574em;vertical-align:-0.686em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">≈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:2.3074em;vertical-align:-0.8804em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.427em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">−</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">−</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8804em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p>This formula easily generalizes for multiple outputs (<span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>M</mi><mo>></mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">M \gt 1</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7224em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span></span>) by having <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>x</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\partial y}{\partial x}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.2772em;vertical-align:-0.345em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.9322em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">x</span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.4461em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.345em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span></span></span></span></span> be a column vector of size <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>M</mi><mo>×</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">M \times 1</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7667em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">×</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span></span> like <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f(x + eps)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span>.
In that case, the above formula can be re-used as-is and approximates the full Jacobian matrix with only two evaluations of the user function (namely <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f(x + eps)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f(x - eps)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">−</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span>).</p>
<p>It is more computationally expensive to handle the case with multiple inputs (<span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>N</mi><mo>></mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N \gt 1</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7224em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span></span>). In this scenario, we loop over all the inputs one after the other and apply the <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">eps</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span></span></span></span></span> perturbation for each element of <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">x</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span></span></span></span></span> one after the other. This allows us to reconstruct the <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">J_f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.9694em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> matrix column by column.</p>
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<div class="section" id="default-real-input-analytical-evaluation">
<h4>Default real input analytical evaluation<a class="headerlink" href="#default-real-input-analytical-evaluation" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>For the analytical evaluation, we use the fact, as described above, that backward mode AD computes <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v^T J_f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.1274em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.
For functions with a single output, we simply use <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v = 1</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span></span> to recover the full Jacobian matrix with a single backward pass.</p>
<p>For functions with more than one output, we resort to a for-loop which iterates over the outputs where each <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span></span></span></span></span> is a one-hot vector corresponding to each output one after the other. This allows to reconstruct the <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">J_f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.9694em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> matrix row by row.</p>
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<div class="section" id="complex-to-real-functions">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Complex-to-real functions</a><a class="headerlink" href="#complex-to-real-functions" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>To test a function <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>g</mi><mo>:</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">C</mi><mi>N</mi></msup><mo>→</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup><mo separator="true">,</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">g: \mathcal{C}^N \to \mathcal{R}^M, z \to y</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.05834em;">C</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.0358em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mpunct">,</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.1667em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.04398em;">z</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span> with <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">z = a + i b</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.04398em;">z</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6667em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ib</span></span></span></span></span>, we reconstruct the (complex-valued) matrix that contains <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2 * CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
<div class="section" id="default-complex-input-numerical-evaluation">
<h4>Default complex input numerical evaluation<a class="headerlink" href="#default-complex-input-numerical-evaluation" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Consider the elementary case where <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>N</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N = M = 1</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span></span> first. We know from (chapter 3 of) <a class="reference external" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.00392.pdf">this research paper</a> that:</p>
<div class="math">
<span class="katex-display"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo>:</mo><mo>=</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><msup><mi>z</mi><mo>∗</mo></msup></mrow></mfrac><mo>=</mo><mfrac><mn>1</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac><mo>∗</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">CW := \frac{\partial y}{\partial z^*} = \frac{1}{2} * (\frac{\partial y}{\partial a} + i \frac{\partial y}{\partial b})
</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:2.0574em;vertical-align:-0.686em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.04398em;">z</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.6147em;"><span style="top:-2.989em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mbin mtight">∗</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:2.0074em;vertical-align:-0.686em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3214em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">2</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:2.0574em;vertical-align:-0.686em;"></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:2.0574em;vertical-align:-0.686em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span></div><p>Note that <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\partial y}{\partial a}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.2772em;vertical-align:-0.345em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.9322em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">a</span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.4461em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.345em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\partial y}{\partial b}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.2772em;vertical-align:-0.345em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.9322em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">b</span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.4461em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.345em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span></span></span></span></span>, in the above equation, are <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mo>→</mo><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{R} \to \mathcal{R}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal">R</span></span></span></span></span> derivatives.
To evaluate these numerically, we use the method described above for the real-to-real case.
This allows us to compute the <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> matrix and then multiply it by <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
<p>Note that the code, as of time of writing, computes this value in a slightly convoluted way:</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Code from https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/58eb23378f2a376565a66ac32c93a316c45b6131/torch/autograd/gradcheck.py#L99-L105</span>
<span class="c1"># Notation changes in this code block:</span>
<span class="c1"># s here is y above</span>
<span class="c1"># x, y here are a, b above</span>
<span class="n">ds_dx</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">compute_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">eps</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">ds_dy</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">compute_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">eps</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="n">j</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># conjugate wirtinger derivative</span>
<span class="n">conj_w_d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.5</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ds_dx</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">ds_dy</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="n">j</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># wirtinger derivative</span>
<span class="n">w_d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.5</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ds_dx</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">ds_dy</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="n">j</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">d</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">d_idx</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad_out</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">conjugate</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">conj_w_d</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">grad_out</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">w_d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">conj</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="c1"># Since grad_out is always 1, and W and CW are complex conjugate of each other, the last line ends up computing exactly `conj_w_d + w_d.conj() = conj_w_d + conj_w_d = 2 * conj_w_d`.</span>
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<div class="section" id="default-complex-input-analytical-evaluation">
<h4>Default complex input analytical evaluation<a class="headerlink" href="#default-complex-input-analytical-evaluation" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Since backward mode AD computes exactly twice the <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> derivative already, we simply use the same trick as for the real-to-real case here and reconstruct the matrix row by row when there are multiple real outputs.</p>
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<div class="section" id="functions-with-complex-outputs">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Functions with complex outputs</a><a class="headerlink" href="#functions-with-complex-outputs" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>In this case, the user-provided function does not follow the assumption from the autograd that the function we compute backward AD for is real-valued.
This means that using autograd directly on this function is not well defined.
To solve this, we will replace the test of the function <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>h</mi><mo>:</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">P</mi><mi>N</mi></msup><mo>→</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">C</mi><mi>M</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">h: \mathcal{P}^N \to \mathcal{C}^M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.08222em;">P</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.05834em;">C</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> (where <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{P}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.08222em;">P</span></span></span></span></span> can be either <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{R}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal">R</span></span></span></span></span> or <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">C</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{C}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.05834em;">C</span></span></span></span></span>), with two functions: <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>r</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">hr</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>i</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">hi</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">hi</span></span></span></span></span> such that:</p>
<div class="math">
<span class="katex-display"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mtable rowspacing="0.25em" columnalign="right left" columnspacing="0em"><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>r</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>:</mo><mo>=</mo><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>l</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>i</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>:</mo><mo>=</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr></mtable><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\begin{aligned}
hr(q) &:= real(f(q)) \\
hi(q) &:= imag(f(q))
\end{aligned}
</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:3em;vertical-align:-1.25em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mtable"><span class="col-align-r"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.75em;"><span style="top:-3.91em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">q</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span><span style="top:-2.41em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">hi</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">q</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.25em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="col-align-l"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.75em;"><span style="top:-3.91em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">re</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">q</span><span class="mclose">))</span></span></span><span style="top:-2.41em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ima</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">q</span><span class="mclose">))</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.25em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p>where <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>q</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi mathvariant="script">P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">q \in \mathcal{P}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7335em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">q</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">∈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.08222em;">P</span></span></span></span></span>.
We then do a basic gradcheck for both <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>r</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">hr</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>i</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">hi</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">hi</span></span></span></span></span> using either the real-to-real or complex-to-real case described above, depending on <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal{P}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.08222em;">P</span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
<p>Note that, the code, as of time of writing, does not create these functions explicitly but perform the chain rule with the <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>l</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">real</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">re</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span></span></span></span></span> or <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>i</mi><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">imag</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.854em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ima</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span></span></span></span></span> functions manually by passing the <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mtext>grad_out</mtext></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\text{grad\_out}</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.0044em;vertical-align:-0.31em;"></span><span class="mord text"><span class="mord">grad_out</span></span></span></span></span></span> arguments to the different functions.
When <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mtext>grad_out</mtext><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\text{grad\_out} = 1</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.0044em;vertical-align:-0.31em;"></span><span class="mord text"><span class="mord">grad_out</span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span></span>, then we are considering <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>r</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">hr</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span></span></span></span></span>.
When <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mtext>grad_out</mtext><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn><mi>j</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\text{grad\_out} = 1j</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.0044em;vertical-align:-0.31em;"></span><span class="mord text"><span class="mord">grad_out</span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.854em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord">1</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.05724em;">j</span></span></span></span></span>, then we are considering <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>i</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">hi</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">hi</span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="fast-backward-mode-gradcheck">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">Fast backward mode gradcheck</a><a class="headerlink" href="#fast-backward-mode-gradcheck" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>While the above formulation of gradcheck is great, both, to ensure correctness and debuggability, it is very slow because it reconstructs the full Jacobian matrices.
This section presents a way to perform gradcheck in a faster way without affecting its correctness.
The debuggability can be recovered by adding special logic when we detect an error. In that case, we can run the default version that reconstructs the full matrix to give full details to the user.</p>
<p>The high level strategy here is to find a scalar quantity that can be computed efficiently by both the numerical and analytical methods and that represents the full matrix computed by the slow gradcheck well enough to ensure that it will catch any discrepancy in the Jacobians.</p>
<div class="section" id="fast-gradcheck-for-real-to-real-functions">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">Fast gradcheck for real-to-real functions</a><a class="headerlink" href="#fast-gradcheck-for-real-to-real-functions" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The scalar quantity that we want to compute here is <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v^T J_f u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.1274em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span> for a given random vector <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi><mo>∈</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v \in \mathcal{R}^M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.5782em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">∈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> and a random unit norm vector <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mo>∈</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>N</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u \in \mathcal{R}^N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.5782em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">∈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
<p>For the numerical evaluation, we can efficiently compute</p>
<div class="math">
<span class="katex-display"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub><mi>u</mi><mo>≈</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>u</mi><mo>∗</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>−</mo><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>u</mi><mo>∗</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi mathvariant="normal">.</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">J_f u \approx \frac{f(x + u * eps) - f(x - u * eps)}{2 * eps}.
</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.9694em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">≈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:2.3074em;vertical-align:-0.8804em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.427em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">−</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">−</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8804em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord">.</span></span></span></span></span></div><p>We then perform the dot product between this vector and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span></span></span></span></span> to get the scalar value of interest.</p>
<p>For the analytical version, we can use backward mode AD to compute <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v^T J_f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.1274em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> directly. We then perform the dot product with <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span> to get the expected value.</p>
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<div class="section" id="fast-gradcheck-for-complex-to-real-functions">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">Fast gradcheck for complex-to-real functions</a><a class="headerlink" href="#fast-gradcheck-for-complex-to-real-functions" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Similar to the real-to-real case, we want to perform a reduction of the full matrix. But the <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2 * CW</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span></span></span></span></span> matrix is complex-valued and so in this case, we will compare to complex scalars.</p>
<p>Due to some constraints on what we can compute efficiently in the numerical case and to keep the number of numerical evaluations to a minimum, we compute the following (albeit surprising) scalar value:</p>
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<span class="katex-display"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mrow><mi>s</mi><mo>:</mo><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>l</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>∗</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">s := 2 * v^T (real(CW) ur + i * imag(CW) ui)
</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.1413em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">re</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6595em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ima</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span></div><p>where <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi><mo>∈</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v \in \mathcal{R}^M</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.5782em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">∈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo>∈</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>N</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">ur \in \mathcal{R}^N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.5782em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">∈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi><mo>∈</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>N</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">ui \in \mathcal{R}^N</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6986em;vertical-align:-0.0391em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">∈</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
<div class="section" id="fast-complex-input-numerical-evaluation">
<h4>Fast complex input numerical evaluation<a class="headerlink" href="#fast-complex-input-numerical-evaluation" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>We first consider how to compute <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">s</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span></span></span></span></span> with a numerical method. To do so, keeping in mind that we’re considering <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>g</mi><mo>:</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">C</mi><mi>N</mi></msup><mo>→</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="script">R</mi><mi>M</mi></msup><mo separator="true">,</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">g: \mathcal{C}^N \to \mathcal{R}^M, z \to y</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal" style="margin-right:0.05834em;">C</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">N</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.0358em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathcal">R</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10903em;">M</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mpunct">,</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.1667em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.04398em;">z</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span> with <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">z = a + i b</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.04398em;">z</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6667em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ib</span></span></span></span></span>, and that <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo>=</mo><mfrac><mn>1</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac><mo>∗</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">CW = \frac{1}{2} * (\frac{\partial y}{\partial a} + i \frac{\partial y}{\partial b})</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.1901em;vertical-align:-0.345em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8451em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">2</span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.394em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">1</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.345em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.2772em;vertical-align:-0.345em;"></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.9322em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">a</span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.4461em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.345em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.2772em;vertical-align:-0.345em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.9322em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">b</span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.4461em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.345em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span>, we rewrite it as follows:</p>
<div class="math">
<span class="katex-display"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mtable rowspacing="0.25em" columnalign="right left" columnspacing="0em"><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mi>s</mi></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>l</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>∗</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mfrac><mn>1</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac><mo>∗</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>∗</mo><mfrac><mn>1</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac><mo>∗</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>∗</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>∗</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr></mtable><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\begin{aligned}
s &= 2 * v^T (real(CW) ur + i * imag(CW) ui) \\
&= 2 * v^T (\frac{1}{2} * \frac{\partial y}{\partial a} ur + i * \frac{1}{2} * \frac{\partial y}{\partial b} ui) \\
&= v^T (\frac{\partial y}{\partial a} ur + i * \frac{\partial y}{\partial b} ui) \\
&= v^T ((\frac{\partial y}{\partial a} ur) + i * (\frac{\partial y}{\partial b} ui))
\end{aligned}
</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:8.6237em;vertical-align:-4.0618em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mtable"><span class="col-align-r"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:4.5618em;"><span style="top:-7.0419em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span></span></span><span style="top:-5.0105em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"></span></span><span style="top:-2.6531em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"></span></span><span style="top:-0.2956em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:4.0618em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="col-align-l"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:4.5618em;"><span style="top:-7.0419em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">re</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ima</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span><span style="top:-5.0105em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3214em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">2</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3214em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">2</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">1</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span><span style="top:-2.6531em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span><span style="top:-0.2956em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">((</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mclose">))</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:4.0618em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p>In this formula, we can see that <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\partial y}{\partial a} ur</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.2772em;vertical-align:-0.345em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.9322em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">a</span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.4461em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.345em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span></span></span></span></span> and <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\frac{\partial y}{\partial b} ui</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.2772em;vertical-align:-0.345em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.9322em;"><span style="top:-2.655em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">b</span></span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.4461em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.345em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span></span></span></span></span> can be evaluated the same way as the fast version for the real-to-real case.
Once these real-valued quantities have been computed, we can reconstruct the complex vector on the right side and do a dot product with the real-valued <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span></span></span></span></span> vector.</p>
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<div class="section" id="fast-complex-input-analytical-evaluation">
<h4>Fast complex input analytical evaluation<a class="headerlink" href="#fast-complex-input-analytical-evaluation" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>For the analytical case, things are simpler and we rewrite the formula as:</p>
<div class="math">
<span class="katex-display"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mtable rowspacing="0.25em" columnalign="right left" columnspacing="0em"><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mi>s</mi></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>l</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>∗</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>l</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>∗</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mi>i</mi><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>l</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>∗</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>m</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr></mtable><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\begin{aligned}
s &= 2 * v^T (real(CW) ur + i * imag(CW) ui) \\
&= v^T real(2 * CW) ur + i * v^T imag(2 * CW) ui) \\
&= real(v^T (2 * CW)) ur + i * imag(v^T (2 * CW)) ui
\end{aligned}
</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:4.654em;vertical-align:-2.077em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mtable"><span class="col-align-r"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:2.577em;"><span style="top:-4.6857em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.1343em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"></span></span><span style="top:-1.583em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:2.077em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="col-align-l"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:2.577em;"><span style="top:-4.6857em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">re</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ima</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.1343em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">re</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ima</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span><span style="top:-1.583em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">re</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">))</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">ima</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8913em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">))</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:2.077em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p>We can thus use the fact that the backward mode AD provides us with an efficient way to compute <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v^T (2 * CW)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.0913em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span> and then perform a dot product of the real part with <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">ur</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span></span></span></span></span> and the imaginary part with <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mi>i</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">ui</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6595em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span></span></span></span></span> before reconstructing the final complex scalar <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">s</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
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<h4>Why not use a complex <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#why-not-use-a-complex-u" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>At this point, you might be wondering why we did not select a complex <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span> and just performed the reduction <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><msup><mi>u</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2 * v^T CW u'</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8413em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.7519em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.
To dive into this, in this paragraph, we will use the complex version of <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span></span></span></span></span> noted <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>u</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup><mo>=</mo><mi>u</mi><msup><mi>r</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>u</mi><msup><mi>i</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u' = ur' + i ui'</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7519em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.7519em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8352em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.7519em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7519em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.7519em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.
Using such complex <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>u</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">u'</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7519em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.7519em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, the problem is that when doing the numerical evaluation, we would need to compute:</p>
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<span class="katex-display"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mtable rowspacing="0.25em" columnalign="right left" columnspacing="0em"><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>∗</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>W</mi><msup><mi>u</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>u</mi><msup><mi>r</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>u</mi><msup><mi>i</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow></mrow></mstyle></mtd><mtd><mstyle scriptlevel="0" displaystyle="true"><mrow><mrow></mrow><mo>=</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><msup><mi>r</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><msup><mi>i</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><msup><mi>r</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup><mo>−</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">∂</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></mfrac><mi>u</mi><msup><mi>i</mi><mo mathvariant="normal" lspace="0em" rspace="0em">′</mo></msup></mrow></mstyle></mtd></mtr></mtable><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\begin{aligned}
2*CW u' &= (\frac{\partial y}{\partial a} + i \frac{\partial y}{\partial b})(ur' + i ui') \\
&= \frac{\partial y}{\partial a} ur' + i \frac{\partial y}{\partial a} ui' + i \frac{\partial y}{\partial b} ur' - \frac{\partial y}{\partial b} ui'
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</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:4.7149em;vertical-align:-2.1074em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mtable"><span class="col-align-r"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:2.6074em;"><span style="top:-4.6074em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord">2</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">∗</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">W</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8019em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="top:-2.25em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:2.1074em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="col-align-l"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:2.6074em;"><span style="top:-4.6074em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8019em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8019em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span><span style="top:-2.25em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3.3714em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord"></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8019em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8019em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">+</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">r</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8019em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">−</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mopen nulldelimiter"></span><span class="mfrac"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:1.3714em;"><span style="top:-2.314em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span></span></span><span style="top:-3.23em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="frac-line" style="border-bottom-width:0.04em;"></span></span><span style="top:-3.677em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:3em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord" style="margin-right:0.05556em;">∂</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">y</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.686em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mclose nulldelimiter"></span></span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8019em;"><span style="top:-3.113em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mtight">′</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:2.1074em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p>Which would require four evaluations of real-to-real finite difference (twice as much compared to the approached proposed above).
Since this approach does not have more degrees of freedom (same number of real valued variables) and we try to get the fastest possible evaluation here, we use the other formulation above.</p>
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10">Fast gradcheck for functions with complex outputs</a><a class="headerlink" href="#fast-gradcheck-for-functions-with-complex-outputs" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Just like in the slow case, we consider two real-valued functions and use the appropriate rule from above for each function.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11">Gradgradcheck implementation</a><a class="headerlink" href="#gradgradcheck-implementation" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>PyTorch also provide a utility to verify second order gradients. The goal here is to make sure that the backward implementation is also properly differentiable and computes the right thing.</p>
<p>This feature is implemented by considering the function <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>x</mi><mo separator="true">,</mo><mi>v</mi><mo>→</mo><msup><mi>v</mi><mi>T</mi></msup><msub><mi>J</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">F: x, v \to v^T J_f</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">F</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.625em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mpunct">,</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.1667em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">→</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1.1274em;vertical-align:-0.2861em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.8413em;"><span style="top:-3.063em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.09618em;">J</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.3361em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:-0.0962em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s"></span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.2861em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> and use the gradcheck defined above on this function.
Note that <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">v</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.4306em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span></span></span></span></span> in this case is just a random vector with the same type as <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f(x)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">x</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
<p>The fast version of gradgradcheck is implemented by using the fast version of gradcheck on that same function <span class="math"><span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">F</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">F</span></span></span></span></span>.</p>
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