18 Jul 2022 | Two examples of using complex numbers for real-function optimization. #numerics #math #ml #gradient #code #python |
29 Jun 2022 | Stochastic Gradient Descent can be (kind of) reversed and can be used to compute gradients with respect to its hyperparameters. #math #ml #gradient #graph #code #jax #deep-learning |
18 Jun 2020 | Implicit differentiation can lead to an efficient computation of the gradient of reparametrized samples. #math #ml #gradient #deep-learning |
08 Jun 2020 | A trick for interchanging the gradient and Expectation of a function under the Gaussian distribution. #math #ml #gradient #deep-learning |
18 Aug 2019 | A slight change in SGD formulation, in terms of maximization of local approximation, leads to an interesting general connection to NGD via mirror descent. #math #ml #gradient #natural-gradient #deep-learning |
08 Aug 2019 | The Exponential family provides an elegant and easy method to compute Natural Gradients and thus can be used for Variational Inference. #math #ml #gradient #natural-gradient #deep-learning |