chain rule

English

Noun

chain rule

1. (calculus) A formula for computing the derivative of the functional composition of two or more functions.
   • 2021, Joe Papa, PyTorch Pocket Reference, page 48:

     The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule.

Translations

mean value theorem

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鏈式法則／链式法则 (liànshì fǎzé)

• French: règle de la chaîne f
• German: Kettenregel f
• Portuguese: regra da cadeia f
• Spanish: regla de la cadena f
• Swedish: kedjeregel (sv) c
• Tagalog: patanikalang panuto

See also

• Faà di Bruno's formula

Anagrams

• Herculian, Herculina, herculian