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For questions about mini-batch (or batch) gradient descent, which is gradient descent with typically more than one sample of input-label pairs.

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What exactly is averaged when doing batch gradient descent?

I have a question about how the averaging works when doing mini-batch gradient descent. I think I now understood the general gradient descent algorithm, but only for online learning. When doing mini-...
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Is back-propagation applied for each data point or for a batch of data points?

I am new to deep learning and trying to understand the concept of back-propagation. I have a doubt about when the back-propagation is applied. Assume that I have a training data set of 1000 images ...
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