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Hi, Once you have trained a neural network, is it possible to obtain a derivative of it? I have a neural network "net" in a structure. I would like to know if there is a routine that will provide the derivatives of net (derivative of its outputs with respect to its inputs). It is probably not difficult, for a feedforward model, there is just matrix multiplications and sigmoid functions, but it would be nice to have a routine that will do that directly on "net".
Expert Answer
John Williams
PhD Expert
Answered Aug 31, 2026
Differentiate to obtain dyi/dxn
y = b2 + LW*h
h = tanh(b1+IW*x)
or, with tensor notation(i.e., summation over repeated indices),
yi = b2i + Lwij*hj
hj = tanh(b1j + IWjk*xk)
Now just use the chain rule.
Hope this helps.
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