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To be fair, this is machine learning we are talking about, not algebraic topology. The experts in ML are still proud of the fact that they figured out the chain
by relkor 11y ago
To be fair, this is machine learning we are talking about, not algebraic topology. The experts in ML are still proud of the fact that they figured out the chain rule...
- cinquemb 11y agoNevermind that they have no idea of the behavior of the partial derivatives nor attempts to model such when presenting their "latest and greatest", at least from most of the stuff I've read that's been posted here…
- walrus 11y ago> The experts in ML are still proud of the fact that they figured out the chain rule... I assume you're talking about using backpropagation with gradient descent. Backpropagation itself isn't all that interesting. The interesting part is that it works for practical problems and doesn't get stuck in shallow local minima.