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Optimisation Function

Optimisation Function

Learn about different types of optimisation functions: what they are, their benefits and drawbacks?

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We can also refine the technique that uses the back propagated gradients to update the network weights.

Stochastic gradient descent

Previously we used a fairly simple method, stochastic gradient descent. The method is popular because it is simple and fairly lightweight in terms of computer resources.


A weakness with the simple stochastic gradient descent is that it can get stuck in local minima in the ...

Stochastic gradient descent gets stuck in global minima