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Applications of SGD outside learning tasks
Are there applications, outside of machine learning, where stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is the preferred method of optimization?
By SGD, I mean any first-order method which approximates the true ...
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Nontrivial applications of tropical mathematics to optimization (soft question)
I have been looking into tropical algebra/geometry for a research problem I'm working on in optimization. Tropical math gets referenced a lot in the literature, but it seems to me that its mostly just ...
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How should I learn from proofs in Applied Mathematics?
I am aware that similar questions have been asked here and elsewhere about how to learn from proofs. Some common advice is:
Most proofs are written in a polished form, not how they were first ...
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