Average Error: 13.5 → 2.2
Time: 1.3m
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 896
\[wj - \frac{wj \cdot e^{wj} - x}{e^{wj} + wj \cdot e^{wj}}\]
↓
\[\left({wj}^{2} + x\right) - 2 \cdot \left(wj \cdot x\right)\]

Error

Bits error versus wj

Bits error versus x

Target

Original13.5
Target12.8
Herbie2.2
\[wj - \left(\frac{wj}{wj + 1} - \frac{x}{e^{wj} + wj \cdot e^{wj}}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 13.5

    \[wj - \frac{wj \cdot e^{wj} - x}{e^{wj} + wj \cdot e^{wj}}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 2.2

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({wj}^{2} + x\right) - 2 \cdot \left(wj \cdot x\right)}\]
  3. Removed slow pow expressions.

Runtime

Time bar (total: 1.3m)Debug logProfile

herbie shell --seed '#(1063027428 1192549564 1443466578 604016274 3637110559 1698629644)' 
(FPCore (wj x)
  :name "Jmat.Real.lambertw, newton loop step"

  :herbie-target
  (- wj (- (/ wj (+ wj 1)) (/ x (+ (exp wj) (* wj (exp wj))))))

  (- wj (/ (- (* wj (exp wj)) x) (+ (exp wj) (* wj (exp wj))))))