In this tutorial, you will learn: What gradient descent is How gradient descent enables us to train neural networks Variations of gradient descent, including Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) How SGD can be improved using momentum and Nesterov acceleration To learn…

In the previous section, we discussed gradient descent, a first-order optimization algorithm that can be used to learn a set of classifier weights for parameterized learning. However, this “vanilla” implementation of gradient descent can be prohibitively slow to run on…