gradient descent

English

Noun

gradient descent (uncountable)

1. (mathematics) A first-order iterative optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable function.

   Hyponym: SGD

   • 2019, Sudharsan Ravichandiran, Hands-On Deep Learning Algorithms with Python, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 92:

     Thus, in gradient descent, on each epoch, we perform the parameter update.

Related terms

• graduate student descent

Translations

Translations

• Swedish: gradientsökning (sv) c

Further reading

• gradient descent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia