Questions tagged [momentum]
For questions about the concept of momentum in the context of gradient descent.
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How are these equations of SGD with momentum equivalent?
I know this question may be so silly, but I can not prove it.
In Stanford slide (page 17), they define the formula of SGD with momentum like this:
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v_{t}=\rho v_{t-1}+\nabla f(x_{t-1})
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x_{t}=x_{...
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Why do momentum techniques not work well for RNNs?
AFAIK, momentum is quite useful when training CNNs, and can speed-up the training substantially without any drop in validation accuracy.
I've recently learned that it is not as helpful for RNNs, where ...
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What is the formula for the momentum and Adam optimisers?
In the gradient descent algorithm, the formula to update the weight $w$, which has $g$ as the partial gradient of the loss function with respect to it, is:
$$w\ -= r \times g$$
where $r$ is the ...
