symmetry log of sum of exp

Percentage Accurate: 53.8% → 98.4%

Time: 11.3s

Alternatives: 13

Speedup: 2.7×

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  1. a = 4.8029156503134883e+45
  2. b = -5.038912329008391e-19

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (log (+ (exp a) (exp b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return log((exp(a) + exp(b)));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = log((exp(a) + exp(b)))
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.log((Math.exp(a) + Math.exp(b)));
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.log((math.exp(a) + math.exp(b)))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return log(Float64(exp(a) + exp(b)))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = log((exp(a) + exp(b)));
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Log[N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[Exp[b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 53.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (log (+ (exp a) (exp b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return log((exp(a) + exp(b)));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = log((exp(a) + exp(b)))
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.log((Math.exp(a) + Math.exp(b)));
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.log((math.exp(a) + math.exp(b)))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return log(Float64(exp(a) + exp(b)))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = log((exp(a) + exp(b)));
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Log[N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[Exp[b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 98.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (+ (log1p (exp a)) (/ b (+ 1.0 (exp a)))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	return log1p(exp(a)) + (b / (1.0 + exp(a)));
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.log1p(Math.exp(a)) + (b / (1.0 + Math.exp(a)));
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	return math.log1p(math.exp(a)) + (b / (1.0 + math.exp(a)))

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(log1p(exp(a)) + Float64(b / Float64(1.0 + exp(a))))
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[Log[1 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] + N[(b / N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 54.0%

   \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

   2. *-rgt-identity N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   3. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   4. lower-+.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

   5. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   6. *-rgt-identity N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   7. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   8. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   9. lower-+.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   12. lower-exp.f64 73.1

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

5. Applied rewrites 73.1%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

6. Final simplification 73.1%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} \]
7. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 56.6% accurate, 1.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 10^{-59}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot b\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, a, \log 2\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 1e-59) (* 0.5 b) (fma 0.5 a (log 2.0))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59) {
		tmp = 0.5 * b;
	} else {
		tmp = fma(0.5, a, log(2.0));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59)
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * b);
	else
		tmp = fma(0.5, a, log(2.0));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 1e-59], N[(0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision], N[(0.5 * a + N[Log[2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 1e-59

   1. Initial program 9.9%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.5

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot b} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 4.3%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{b}, \log 2\right) \]

   9. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 18.6%

       \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b \]

   if 1e-59 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 68.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. lower-exp.f64 64.4

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 64.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot a} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 63.8%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{a}, \log 2\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 56.6% accurate, 1.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 10^{-59}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot b\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(1 + a\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 1e-59) (* 0.5 b) (log1p (+ 1.0 a))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59) {
		tmp = 0.5 * b;
	} else {
		tmp = log1p((1.0 + a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (Math.exp(a) <= 1e-59) {
		tmp = 0.5 * b;
	} else {
		tmp = Math.log1p((1.0 + a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if math.exp(a) <= 1e-59:
		tmp = 0.5 * b
	else:
		tmp = math.log1p((1.0 + a))
	return tmp

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59)
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * b);
	else
		tmp = log1p(Float64(1.0 + a));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 1e-59], N[(0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision], N[Log[1 + N[(1.0 + a), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 1e-59

   1. Initial program 9.9%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.5

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot b} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 4.3%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{b}, \log 2\right) \]

   9. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 18.6%

       \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b \]

   if 1e-59 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 68.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. lower-exp.f64 64.4

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 64.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(1 + a\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 63.7%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(a + 1\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 52.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 10^{-59}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot b\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(1 + a\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 56.5% accurate, 1.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 10^{-59}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot b\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log 2 + b\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 1e-59) (* 0.5 b) (+ (log 2.0) b)))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59) {
		tmp = 0.5 * b;
	} else {
		tmp = log(2.0) + b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (exp(a) <= 1d-59) then
        tmp = 0.5d0 * b
    else
        tmp = log(2.0d0) + b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (Math.exp(a) <= 1e-59) {
		tmp = 0.5 * b;
	} else {
		tmp = Math.log(2.0) + b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if math.exp(a) <= 1e-59:
		tmp = 0.5 * b
	else:
		tmp = math.log(2.0) + b
	return tmp

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59)
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * b);
	else
		tmp = Float64(log(2.0) + b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

a, b = num2cell(sort([a, b])){:}
function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59)
		tmp = 0.5 * b;
	else
		tmp = log(2.0) + b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 1e-59], N[(0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[Log[2.0], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 1e-59

   1. Initial program 9.9%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.5

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot b} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 4.3%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{b}, \log 2\right) \]

   9. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 18.6%

       \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b \]

   if 1e-59 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 68.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 64.8

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 64.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 64.7%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 64.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

       \[\leadsto b + \color{blue}{\log 2} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 62.9%

       \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{b} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 56.1% accurate, 1.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 10^{-59}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot b\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 1e-59) (* 0.5 b) (log1p 1.0)))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59) {
		tmp = 0.5 * b;
	} else {
		tmp = log1p(1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (Math.exp(a) <= 1e-59) {
		tmp = 0.5 * b;
	} else {
		tmp = Math.log1p(1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if math.exp(a) <= 1e-59:
		tmp = 0.5 * b
	else:
		tmp = math.log1p(1.0)
	return tmp

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 1e-59)
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * b);
	else
		tmp = log1p(1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 1e-59], N[(0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision], N[Log[1 + 1.0], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 1e-59

   1. Initial program 9.9%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.5

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot b} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 4.3%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{b}, \log 2\right) \]

   9. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 18.6%

       \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b \]

   if 1e-59 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 68.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. lower-exp.f64 64.4

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 64.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(1\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 63.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(1\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 98.2% accurate, 1.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + b \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (+ (log1p (exp a)) b))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	return log1p(exp(a)) + b;
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.log1p(Math.exp(a)) + b;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	return math.log1p(math.exp(a)) + b

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(log1p(exp(a)) + b)
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[Log[1 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 54.0%

   \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

   2. *-rgt-identity N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   3. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   4. lower-+.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

   5. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   6. *-rgt-identity N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   7. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   8. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   9. lower-+.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   12. lower-exp.f64 73.1

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

5. Applied rewrites 73.1%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

7. Applied rewrites 73.0%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

9. Applied rewrites 72.6%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

10. Taylor expanded in b around 0

    \[\leadsto b + \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
11. Step-by-step derivation

12. Applied rewrites 72.7%

    \[\leadsto b + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

13. Final simplification 72.7%

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + b \]
14. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 7: 97.9% accurate, 2.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.6:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b, e^{a}, b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right), b, 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666, a, 0.5\right), a, 1\right), a, 1\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= a -1.6)
   (fma b (exp a) b)
   (log
    (+
     (fma (fma 0.5 b 1.0) b 1.0)
     (fma (fma (fma 0.16666666666666666 a 0.5) a 1.0) a 1.0)))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -1.6) {
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	} else {
		tmp = log((fma(fma(0.5, b, 1.0), b, 1.0) + fma(fma(fma(0.16666666666666666, a, 0.5), a, 1.0), a, 1.0)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -1.6)
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	else
		tmp = log(Float64(fma(fma(0.5, b, 1.0), b, 1.0) + fma(fma(fma(0.16666666666666666, a, 0.5), a, 1.0), a, 1.0)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, -1.6], N[(b * N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision], N[Log[N[(N[(N[(0.5 * b + 1.0), $MachinePrecision] * b + 1.0), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(0.16666666666666666 * a + 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * a + 1.0), $MachinePrecision] * a + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -1.6000000000000001

   1. Initial program 11.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 97.1

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(1 + e^{a}, \color{blue}{b}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 97.1%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b, \color{blue}{e^{a}}, b\right) \]

   if -1.6000000000000001 < a

   1. Initial program 68.2%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \color{blue}{\left(1 + b \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot b\right)\right)}\right) \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot b\right) + 1\right)}\right) \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot b\right) \cdot b} + 1\right)\right) \]

      3. lower-fma.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot b, b, 1\right)}\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot b + 1}, b, 1\right)\right) \]

      5. lower-fma.f64 65.6

         \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right)}, b, 1\right)\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 65.6%

      \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)}\right) \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log \left(\color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot \left(1 + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right)\right)\right)} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right)\right) + 1\right)} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(\left(\color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot a} + 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

      3. lower-fma.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(1 + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right), a, 1\right)} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) + 1}, a, 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

      5. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + 1, a, 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot a, a, 1\right)}, a, 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

      7. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \log \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{6} \cdot a + \frac{1}{2}}, a, 1\right), a, 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 64.9

         \[\leadsto \log \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666, a, 0.5\right)}, a, 1\right), a, 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

   8. Applied rewrites 64.9%

      \[\leadsto \log \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666, a, 0.5\right), a, 1\right), a, 1\right)} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 72.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.6:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b, e^{a}, b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right), b, 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666, a, 0.5\right), a, 1\right), a, 1\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 8: 97.8% accurate, 2.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -2.6:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b, e^{a}, b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, -0.005208333333333333, 0.125\right), a, 0.5\right), a, \log 2 + b\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= a -2.6)
   (fma b (exp a) b)
   (fma
    (fma (fma (* a a) -0.005208333333333333 0.125) a 0.5)
    a
    (+ (log 2.0) b))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -2.6) {
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(fma(fma((a * a), -0.005208333333333333, 0.125), a, 0.5), a, (log(2.0) + b));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -2.6)
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	else
		tmp = fma(fma(fma(Float64(a * a), -0.005208333333333333, 0.125), a, 0.5), a, Float64(log(2.0) + b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, -2.6], N[(b * N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * -0.005208333333333333 + 0.125), $MachinePrecision] * a + 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(N[Log[2.0], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -2.60000000000000009

   1. Initial program 9.9%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.5

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(1 + e^{a}, \color{blue}{b}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 98.5%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b, \color{blue}{e^{a}}, b\right) \]

   if -2.60000000000000009 < a

   1. Initial program 68.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 64.8

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 64.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 64.7%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 64.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

       \[\leadsto b + \color{blue}{\left(\log 2 + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{8} + \frac{-1}{192} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)\right)\right)} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 63.5%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, -0.005208333333333333, 0.125\right), a, 0.5\right), \color{blue}{a}, \log 2 + b\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 9: 97.9% accurate, 2.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -33:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b, e^{a}, b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.125, a, 0.5\right)\right), a, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, \log 2\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= a -33.0)
   (fma b (exp a) b)
   (fma (fma -0.25 b (fma 0.125 a 0.5)) a (fma 0.5 b (log 2.0)))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -33.0) {
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(fma(-0.25, b, fma(0.125, a, 0.5)), a, fma(0.5, b, log(2.0)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -33.0)
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	else
		tmp = fma(fma(-0.25, b, fma(0.125, a, 0.5)), a, fma(0.5, b, log(2.0)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, -33.0], N[(b * N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(-0.25 * b + N[(0.125 * a + 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(0.5 * b + N[Log[2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -33

   1. Initial program 9.9%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.5

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(1 + e^{a}, \color{blue}{b}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 98.5%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b, \color{blue}{e^{a}}, b\right) \]

   if -33 < a

   1. Initial program 68.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 64.8

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 64.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot b + a \cdot \left(\left(\frac{1}{2} + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{8} - \left(\frac{-1}{8} \cdot b + \frac{1}{8} \cdot b\right)\right)\right) - \frac{1}{4} \cdot b\right)\right)} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 64.2%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.125, a, 0.5\right)\right), \color{blue}{a}, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, \log 2\right)\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 10: 97.8% accurate, 2.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -34:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b, e^{a}, b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, a, 1\right), a, 1\right)\right) + 0.5 \cdot b\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= a -34.0)
   (fma b (exp a) b)
   (+ (log1p (fma (fma 0.5 a 1.0) a 1.0)) (* 0.5 b))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -34.0) {
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	} else {
		tmp = log1p(fma(fma(0.5, a, 1.0), a, 1.0)) + (0.5 * b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -34.0)
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	else
		tmp = Float64(log1p(fma(fma(0.5, a, 1.0), a, 1.0)) + Float64(0.5 * b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, -34.0], N[(b * N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[Log[1 + N[(N[(0.5 * a + 1.0), $MachinePrecision] * a + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] + N[(0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -34

   1. Initial program 9.9%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.5

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(1 + e^{a}, \color{blue}{b}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 98.5%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b, \color{blue}{e^{a}}, b\right) \]

   if -34 < a

   1. Initial program 68.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 64.8

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 64.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 64.8%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(1 + a \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot a\right)\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 64.1%

       \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, a, 1\right), a, 1\right)\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 72.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -34:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b, e^{a}, b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, a, 1\right), a, 1\right)\right) + 0.5 \cdot b\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 11: 97.4% accurate, 2.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.4:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b, e^{a}, b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, a, \log 2 + b\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= a -1.4) (fma b (exp a) b) (fma 0.5 a (+ (log 2.0) b))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -1.4) {
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(0.5, a, (log(2.0) + b));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -1.4)
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	else
		tmp = fma(0.5, a, Float64(log(2.0) + b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, -1.4], N[(b * N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision], N[(0.5 * a + N[(N[Log[2.0], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -1.3999999999999999

   1. Initial program 11.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 97.1

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(1 + e^{a}, \color{blue}{b}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 97.1%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b, \color{blue}{e^{a}}, b\right) \]

   if -1.3999999999999999 < a

   1. Initial program 68.2%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 65.2

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 65.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 65.0%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 64.4%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

       \[\leadsto b + \color{blue}{\left(\log 2 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot a\right)} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 63.9%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{a}, \log 2 + b\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 12: 97.0% accurate, 2.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.38:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b, e^{a}, b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, a, \log 2\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= a -1.38) (fma b (exp a) b) (fma 0.5 a (log 2.0))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -1.38) {
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(0.5, a, log(2.0));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -1.38)
		tmp = fma(b, exp(a), b);
	else
		tmp = fma(0.5, a, log(2.0));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, -1.38], N[(b * N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision], N[(0.5 * a + N[Log[2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -1.3799999999999999

   1. Initial program 11.3%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 97.1

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a + a\right)}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a\right)}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(1 + e^{a}, \color{blue}{b}, \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

   12. Applied rewrites 97.1%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b, \color{blue}{e^{a}}, b\right) \]

   if -1.3799999999999999 < a

   1. Initial program 68.2%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. lower-exp.f64 64.7

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 64.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot a} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 64.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{a}, \log 2\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 13: 12.0% accurate, 50.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ 0.5 \cdot b \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* 0.5 b))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	return 0.5 * b;
}

Fortran

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = 0.5d0 * b
end function

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return 0.5 * b;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	return 0.5 * b

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(0.5 * b)
end

MATLAB

a, b = num2cell(sort([a, b])){:}
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.5 * b;
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := N[(0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 54.0%

   \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

   2. *-rgt-identity N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot 1}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   3. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   4. lower-+.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{1}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right)} \]

   5. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot 1}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   6. *-rgt-identity N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b}}{1 + e^{a}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   7. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   8. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   9. lower-+.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a}} + 1} + \log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) \]

   11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   12. lower-exp.f64 73.1

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

5. Applied rewrites 73.1%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot b} \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

8. Applied rewrites 48.8%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{b}, \log 2\right) \]

9. Taylor expanded in b around inf

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

11. Applied rewrites 7.1%

    \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b \]
12. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024240 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "symmetry log of sum of exp"
  :precision binary64
  (log (+ (exp a) (exp b))))