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The quadratic sandwich(fedemagnani.github.io)
67 points by cpp_frog 3 days ago | 4 comments
laGrenouille 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Great visualizations. Really enjoyed having a well-written example where mathematical proofs directly help with understanding a practical application.

I wonder what would happen with this analysis if a momentum term was added to the gradient descent. It seems that it would fix the specific failure modes in the examples, but I wonder if there's a corresponding mathematical way of categorizing what kinds of functions can(not) be quickly optimized with GD + momentum.

xuzhenpeng 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The animation is very good, making the article easy to understand

Guestmodinfo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

We studied it in our peparation for college entrance exams in India. Though the detail the article goes in is exhaustive. But I thought that this maybe common or almost common knowledge. We used to call it sandwich theorem

thaumasiotes 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The sandwich theorem would normally refer to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_theorem