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Important Functional Derivative Identity

For a differentiable function f(x)f(\bold x) and differentiable function g(y,x)g(y, \bold x) with continuous derivatives:

f(x)g(f(x),x)dx=yg(f(x),x)\frac{\partial}{\partial f(\bold x)} \int {g(f(\bold x), \bold x) d\bold x} = \frac{\partial}{\partial y} g(f(\bold x), \bold x).

A useful way to think about this identity is to compare f(x)f(\bold x) to a vector with infinte elements whose value is indexed by x\bold x. Then, this could be compared to the discrete definition for a vector θ\bold \theta:

θijg(θj,j)=θig(θi,i)\frac{\partial}{\partial \theta _{i}} \sum_j g(\theta_j, j) = \frac {\partial}{\partial \theta_i} g(\theta_i, i).

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Updated 2021-07-21

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