Analysis of the Learning Rate in Gradient Descent Algorithm Using Python
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Jalal Mansoori
Originally published on Towards AI.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn, implement, visualize the Performance of Gradient descent by trying different sets of learning rate values.

Image by Author. Gradient Descent EquationWhat is Linear regression?What is Gradient Descent?Comparison between different values of learning rate (alpha).Implementation in Python programming language
I guess you probably have heard about the learning rate in gradient descent from the Coursera machine learning course of Andrew ng. One of the best courses for beginners to build a foundation for machine learning.
So it’s been more than a month I started learning ML and believe me there is so much you can learn in topics like Linear, Logistic Regression, Neural Network … and to get a better understanding of those topics you need to learn… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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