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Is Stochastic Gradient Descent same as gradient descent?
Both algorithms are quite similar. The only difference comes while iterating. In Gradient Descent, we consider all the points in calculating loss and derivative, while in Stochastic gradient descent, we use single point in loss function and its derivative randomly.
Why is stochastic gradient descent called stochastic?
The word ‘stochastic’ means a system or a process that is linked with a random probability. Hence, in Stochastic Gradient Descent, a few samples are selected randomly instead of the whole data set for each iteration.
What is stochastic gradient descent method?
Stochastic gradient descent (often abbreviated SGD) is an iterative method for optimizing an objective function with suitable smoothness properties (e.g. differentiable or subdifferentiable).
What are alternatives of gradient descent?
Whereas, Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been used successfully in many conventional machine learning applications and is considered to be a useful alternative to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as a deep learning optimizer. Adam is the most popular method because it is computationally efficient and requires little tuning.
Can you please explain the gradient descent?
Introduction to Gradient Descent Algorithm. Gradient descent algorithm is an optimization algorithm which is used to minimise the function.
What is regular step gradient descent?
The regular step gradient descent optimization adjusts the transformation parameters so that the optimization follows the gradient of the image similarity metric in the direction of the extrema. It uses constant length steps along the gradient between computations until the gradient changes direction.
Is gradient descent guaranteed to converge?
Conjugate gradient is not guaranteed to reach a global optimum or a local optimum! There are points where the gradient is very small, that are not optima (inflection points, saddle points). Gradient Descent could converge to a point for the function .