BCS405C VTU Notes: Optimization Technique 2022 Scheme

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Optimization Technique

BCS405C

2022 Scheme

Module 1 : VECTOR CALCULUS

Functions of several variables, Differentiation and partial differentials, gradients of vector-valued functions, gradients of matrices, useful identities for computing gradients, linearization and multivariate Taylor series.

Module 2 : APPLICATIONS OF VECTOR CALCULUS

Backpropagation and automatic differentiation, gradients in a deep network, The Gradient of Quadratic Cost, Descending the Gradient of Cost, The Gradient of Mean Squared Error.

Module 3 : Convex Optimization-1

Local and global optima, convex sets and functions separating hyperplanes, application of Hessian matrix in optimization, Optimization using gradient descent, Sequential search 3- point search and Fibonacci search

Module 4 : Convex Optimization-2

Unconstrained optimization -Method of steepest ascent/descent, NR method, Gradient descent, Mini batch gradient descent, Stochastic gradient descent.

Module 5 : Advanced Optimization

Momentum-based gradient descent methods: Adagrad, RMSprop and Adam. Non-Convex Optimization: Convergence to Critical Points, Saddle-Point methods.

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