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I am looking for a general closed-form formula for the derivatives of a Feed-forward Network with respect to the inputs.

Mathematically, we can write:

$$ \mathbf{y} = f_{FF}(\mathbf{x}) = \mathbf{W}_{h} (\sigma_{h-1}(\mathbf{W}_{h-1} (\ldots \sigma_0(\mathbf{W}_0 \mathbf{x} + \mathbf{b}_0) \ldots) + \mathbf{b}_{h-1})) + \mathbf{b}_{h} $$

Assuming all the activation functions being identical and equal to the $\tanh$, that is $\sigma_h(\cdot) = \tanh(\cdot)$, is there a general closed-formula for the $k$-th order derivatives of $\mathbf{y} = [y_0, \ldots, y_j]$ with respect to $\mathbf{x} = [x_0, \ldots, x_i]$?:

$$ \frac{\partial^k \mathbf{y}^i}{\partial {x^i}^k} = ? $$

This question is a generalization of Neural network derivative with respect to input

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