Understanding the Mathematics behind Gradient Descent.

A simple mathematical intuition behind one of the commonly used optimization algorithms in Machine Learning.

Parul Pandey
Towards Data Science
10 min readMar 18, 2019

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“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
― Donald Ervin Knuth

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Principal Data Scientist @H2O.ai | Author of Machine Learning for High-Risk Applications