What is gradient descent?

Related questions

1. Is gradient descent greedy?
2. How does stochastic gradient descent work?
3. Does gradient descent always converge?
4. Does linear regression use gradient descent?
5. What is cost function gradient descent?
6. What is mini batch gradient descent?
7. What is meant by genetic algorithm?
8. Does stochastic gradient descent converge?
9. What is stochastic gradient descent used for?
10. What is asynchronous stochastic gradient descent?

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2. #gradient
3. #minimum
4. #point
5. #approximate
6. #current
7. #proportional
8. #takes
9. #descent
10. #order
11. #first
12. #finding
13. #steps
14. #algorithm
15. #using
16. #function
17. #local
18. #negative
19. #iterative