kshitij12345 commented on a change in pull request #14992: [MXNET-978] Support 
higher order gradient for `log`.
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/14992#discussion_r289494106
 
 

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 File path: src/operator/tensor/elemwise_unary_op_basic.cc
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 @@ -1069,13 +1069,73 @@ The storage type of ``log2`` output is always dense
 .set_attr<nnvm::FGradient>("FGradient", ElemwiseGradUseIn{"_backward_log2"});
 
 MXNET_OPERATOR_REGISTER_BINARY_WITH_SPARSE_CPU_DR(_backward_log,
-                                                  
unary_bwd<mshadow_op::log_grad>);
+                                                  
unary_bwd<mshadow_op::log_grad>)
+.set_attr<nnvm::FGradient>("FGradient",
+  [](const nnvm::NodePtr& n, const std::vector<nnvm::NodeEntry>& ograds) {
+    // For f(x) -> f = log
+    // f''(x) = -1 * (f'(x) * f'(x))
+    auto gx = nnvm::NodeEntry{n};
+    auto ggx_mid = MakeNode("elemwise_mul", n->attrs.name + 
"_backward_mid_grad_grad",
+                            {gx, gx}, nullptr, &n);
+    auto ggx = MakeNode("negative", n->attrs.name + "_backward_grad_grad",
+                        {nnvm::NodeEntry{ggx_mid}}, nullptr, &n);
+
+    std::vector<nnvm::NodeEntry> ret;
+
+    ret.emplace_back(MakeNode("elemwise_mul", n->attrs.name + 
"_backward_grad_grad",
+                             {ograds[0], gx}, nullptr, &n));
+    ret.emplace_back(MakeNode("elemwise_mul", n->attrs.name + 
"_backward_grad_grad_inp",
+                             {ograds[0], nnvm::NodeEntry{ggx}}, nullptr, &n));
+    return ret;
+  });
 
 MXNET_OPERATOR_REGISTER_BINARY_WITH_SPARSE_CPU_DR(_backward_log10,
-                                                  
unary_bwd<mshadow_op::log10_grad>);
+                                                  
unary_bwd<mshadow_op::log10_grad>)
+.set_attr<nnvm::FGradient>("FGradient",
+  [](const nnvm::NodePtr& n, const std::vector<nnvm::NodeEntry>& ograds) {
+    // For f(x) -> f = log10
+    // f'(x) = 1 / (log(10) * x)
+    // f''(x) = -1 * (f'(x) * 1/x)
+    auto gx = nnvm::NodeEntry{n, 0, 0};
 
 Review comment:
   @larroy Thanks for pointing this, going through this again made me realise 
that there is a problem with the implementation of `log`.

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