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Not the person you replied to, but your comment was both rude and incorrect enough that I feel the need to reply. See for example http://www.offconvex.org/2016/
by david-gpu 9y ago
Not the person you replied to, but your comment was both rude and incorrect enough that I feel the need to reply. See for example http://www.offconvex.org/2016/03/22/saddlepoints/ http://www.offconvex.org/2016/03/22/saddlepoints/ for some discussion on this.
- bobby_the_whale 9y agoFunny you say that. I have the impression you can't even write down what correctness means. If you have to refer to an external party that is also lacking in rigor, please don't. EDIT: Have you even read that article yourself and in particular the NP-Hard bit? That directly contradicts the idea that you can escape from local minima. The only thing you can hope for is escaping from some local minima or that your problem actually was easy to begin with. Computers have never in their history solved hard problems for non-trivial problem sizes, they have merely approximated them. Neural networks have been used to solve problems of practical interest, but any extension of that claim just makes you look like a clown.