larroy commented on a change in pull request #15515: [MXNET-978] Higher Order 
Gradient Support `arcsin`, `arccos`.
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15515#discussion_r330752970
 
 

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 File path: src/operator/tensor/elemwise_unary_op_trig.cc
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 @@ -188,7 +188,31 @@ The storage type of ``arcsin`` output depends upon the 
input storage type:
 .set_attr<nnvm::FGradient>("FGradient", ElemwiseGradUseIn{ "_backward_arcsin" 
});
 
 MXNET_OPERATOR_REGISTER_BINARY_WITH_SPARSE_CPU_DR(_backward_arcsin,
-                                                  
unary_bwd<mshadow_op::arcsin_grad>);
+                                                  
unary_bwd<mshadow_op::arcsin_grad>)
+.set_attr<nnvm::FGradient>("FGradient",
+    [](const nnvm::NodePtr& n, const std::vector<nnvm::NodeEntry>& ograds) {
+      // ograds[0]: head_grad_grads (dL/dxgrad)
+      // inputs[0]: dL/dy
+      // inputs[1]: x (ElemwiseGradUseIn)
+      // f(x) = arcsin(x)
+      // n: f'(x) = 1/(1-x^2)^1/2
+      // f''(x) = f'(x) * x/(1-x^2)
+      // Note: x/(1-x^2) = x * f'(x)^2
+      auto dydx = n->inputs[0];
+      auto x = n->inputs[1];
+      auto dydx_mul_grad_x = nnvm::NodeEntry{n};
+      auto op = mxnet::util::NodeOpGen{n};
+
+      auto grad_x = op.div(dydx_mul_grad_x, dydx);
+      auto grad_x_square = op.square(grad_x);
+      auto grad_x_square_mul_x = op.mul(grad_x_square, x);
+      auto grad_grad_x = op.mul(dydx_mul_grad_x, grad_x_square_mul_x);
+
+      std::vector<nnvm::NodeEntry> ret;
+      ret.emplace_back(op.mul(ograds[0], grad_x));
 
 Review comment:
   if the first input is y_grad or dL/dy, this gradient should be dL/(dy*dx)  ?
   didn't we have the convention of x_grad instead of grad_x?
   
    

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