Gradient Descent

Pros and Cons of different variations of Gradient Descent for Machine Learning

Kurtis Pykes
Towards Data Science
4 min readAug 13, 2020

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Introduction

Gradient Descent is a first order iterative optimization algorithm where optimization, often in Machine Learning refers to minimizing a cost function J(w) parameterized by the predictive model's parameters. Additionally, by first-order we mean that Gradient…

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