Derivative Interval Passes #
These passes propagate interval bounds for first and second derivatives through the same flat graph
used by IBP. Derivative propagation has its own chain-rule state but reuses FlatBox for every
intermediate enclosure.
Linear operations, pointwise arithmetic, supported activations, and selected structural operations have explicit rules. Coupled softmax and layer-normalization derivatives are evaluated only when the scalar instance declares their algebra exact. Finite-precision instances otherwise leave those nodes unresolved instead of running the real-arithmetic formulas with rounded operations.
Propagate first-derivative intervals from a one-dimensional input.
The input derivative is the all-ones vector. The pass uses value-IBP boxes to bound activation derivatives and leaves an entry empty when it encounters an unsupported local derivative.
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Propagate a directional first-derivative enclosure from a caller-supplied input seed.
A seed whose dimension differs from an input box leaves that input unresolved. Point seeds such as coordinate vectors recover partial derivatives; interval seeds propagate a family of directions through the same local derivative rules.
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Propagate an enclosure of the mixed second derivative D²f[u, v].
dLeft and dRight are first-derivative passes seeded by directions u and v. The input mixed
derivative is zero, while every nonlinear rule applies the bilinear second-order chain rule. Taking
the two arrays equal recovers the second directional derivative D²f[v, v]; coordinate seeds can
be paired with a fixed direction to recover the entries of a Hessian-vector product.
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Propagate the second directional derivative D²f[v, v] from one first-derivative pass.
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Compute an interval enclosure for each component of a Hessian-vector product.
coordinateDerivatives i is the first-derivative pass seeded by the ith coordinate vector;
directionalDerivative is seeded by the vector being multiplied by the Hessian. The result at i
is the mixed derivative D²f[eᵢ, v], i.e. the ith Hessian-vector component for scalar outputs.
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One-dimensional second derivatives are the all-ones directional special case.