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Author: giorgiop

neural-networks-3.md

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ x += - learning_rate * dx
 
 where `learning_rate` is a hyperparameter - a fixed constant. When evaluated on the full dataset, and when the learning rate is low enough, this is guaranteed to make non-negative progress on the loss function.
 
-**Momentum update** is another approach that almost always enjoys better converge rates on deep networks. This update can be motivated from a physical perspective of the optimization problem. In particular, the loss can be interpreted as a the height of a hilly terrain (and therefore also to the potential energy since \\(U = mgh\\) and therefore \\( U \propto h \\) ). Initializing the parameters with random numbers is equivalent to setting a particle with zero initial velocity at some location. The optimization process can then be seen as equivalent to the process of simulating the parameter vector (i.e. a particle) as rolling on the landscape.
+**Momentum update** is another approach that almost always enjoys better converge rates on deep networks. This update can be motivated from a physical perspective of the optimization problem. In particular, the loss can be interpreted as the height of a hilly terrain (and therefore also to the potential energy since \\(U = mgh\\) and therefore \\( U \propto h \\) ). Initializing the parameters with random numbers is equivalent to setting a particle with zero initial velocity at some location. The optimization process can then be seen as equivalent to the process of simulating the parameter vector (i.e. a particle) as rolling on the landscape.
 
 Since the force on the particle is related to the gradient of potential energy (i.e. \\(F = - \nabla U \\) ), the **force** felt by the particle is precisely the (negative) **gradient** of the loss function. Moreover, \\(F = ma \\) so the (negative) gradient is in this view proportional to the acceleration of the particle. Note that this is different from the SGD update shown above, where the gradient directly integrates the position. Instead, the physics view suggests an update in which the gradient only directly influences the velocity, which in turn has an effect on the position:
 
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ In training deep networks, it is usually helpful to anneal the learning rate ove
 - **Exponential decay.** has the mathematical form \\(\alpha = \alpha\_0 e^{-k t}\\), where \\(\alpha\_0, k\\) are hyperparameters and \\(t\\) is the iteration number (but you can also use units of epochs).
 - **1/t decay** has the mathematical form \\(\alpha = \alpha\_0 / (1 + k t )\\) where \\(a\_0, k\\) are hyperparameters and \\(t\\) is the iteration number.
 
-In practice, we find that the step decay dropout is slightly preferable because the hyperparameters it involves (the fraction of decay and the step timings in units of epochs) are more interpretable than the hyperparameter \\(k\\). Lastly, if you can afford the computational budget, err on the side of slower decay and train for a longer time.
+In practice, we find that the step decay is slightly preferable because the hyperparameters it involves (the fraction of decay and the step timings in units of epochs) are more interpretable than the hyperparameter \\(k\\). Lastly, if you can afford the computational budget, err on the side of slower decay and train for a longer time.
 
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 #### Second order methods