Gradient Descent: In Layman Language

Author(s): Saikat Biswas

Originally published on Towards AI.

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Whenever we talk of Machine Learning, the word we hear a lot, need to know and reason about is the word Gradient Descent. Now, what is that? There are a plethora of tutorials on the web to know and understand more on the topic. Some are easy to grasp, along with very useful diagrams and explanations and while some use the mathematical calculations to explain the topic in a very subtle manner.

But, it can get very daunting sometimes to understand that completely and confuse us more than giving us a proper understanding of the subject. It surely did confuse… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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