You take the derivative of y with respect to x. You are finding the sensitivity to the change in the function with respect to a change in the argument.

You take the derivative of y with respect to x. You are finding the sensitivity to the change in the function with respect to a change in the argument.

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The theory of second-order epi-derivatives of extended-real-valued functions is applied to convex functions on $\mathbb {R}^n$ and shown to be closely tied to proto-differentiation of the ...