An Intuitive Explanation of Gradient Descent

One of the most widely used machine learning algorithms explained in 5 minutes

Terence Shin, MSc, MBA
Towards Data Science
5 min readJan 17, 2020

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Gradient Descent is widely used in the machine learning world and is essentially an optimization algorithm used to find the minimum of a cost function. In data science, gradient descent is used to refine the parameters (coefficients) of our model to minimize…

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