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Stochastic Gradient Descent

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is a first-order iterative optimization algorithm, rooted in the stochastic approximation framework introduced by Robbins and Monro in 1951, that minimizes an objective function by updating model parameters using the gradient computed on a single randomly selected training example (or a small mini-batch) at each step. It is the core optimization engine behind modern machine learning and deep learning, enabling the training of models on datasets too large to fit in memory.

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Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) Optimization Algorithm
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / machine-learning
  • Robbins, H. & Monro, S. (1951). A Stochastic Approximation Method. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 22(3), 400–407. · DOI 10.1214/aoms/1177729586
  • Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y. & Courville, A. (2016). Deep Learning (Ch. 8). MIT Press. · ISBN 978-0-262-03561-3
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See alsoLogistic Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRandom Forestmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyXGBoostmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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