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Re: Derivative of function with indexed variables

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  • Subject: [mg83988] Re: Derivative of function with indexed variables
  • From: Laurens van der Maaten <l.vandermaaten at micc.unimaas.nl>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 02:44:18 -0500 (EST)

Here is the same in proper Mathematica-style:

num = Exp[- (y[i] - y[j])^2]
den = Sum[Sum[Exp[-(y[k] - y[h])^2], {h, k + 1, n}], {k, 1, n}]
expr = Sum[p[i, j]Log[p[i, j]/(num / den)], {j, 1, n}]
D[expr, y[i]]

The resulting derivative is incorrect, because Mathematica does not seem to notice that y[k] and y[h] are sometimes equal to y[i] (over which we compute the derivative). Any ideas?


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