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For questions surrounding gradient descent, a method for finding the optimum state of a parameterized function based on another function often called the loss or error function. It iteratively descends the loss surface to the minimum loss by adjusting parameters based on the product of the partial derivatives comprising the gradient and a learning rate.

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How can a neural network learn when the derivative of the activation function is 0?

Imagine that I have an artificial neural network with a single hidden layer and that I am using ReLU as my activating function. If by change I initialize my bias and my weights in such a form that: $$ …
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