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I thought gradient descent was mostly calculus, not linear algebra. I was under the impression linear algebra was used to frame calculations so that GPUs could
by umvi 6y ago
I thought gradient descent was mostly calculus, not linear algebra. I was under the impression linear algebra was used to frame calculations so that GPUs could be utilized (since GPUs are very good at LA operations)
- mr_toad 6y agoIt is. Even in models that are actually linear (e.g. linear regression), calculus is used to characterise the function used to minimise the errors.