chain rule

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chain rule

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  1. A formula for computing the derivative of the functional composition of two or more functions. The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule.

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@misc{chain_rule_2026,
  title = {chain rule},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chain%20rule},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}