Is gradient descent a loss function?

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1. Can stochastic gradient descent be parallelized?
2. Does linear regression use gradient descent?
3. What is stochastic gradient descent used for?
4. How does stochastic gradient descent work?
5. What is Theta in gradient descent?
6. What is asynchronous stochastic gradient descent?
7. Does gradient descent always converge?
8. Who invented stochastic gradient descent?
9. What is gradient descent?
10. Is gradient descent a convex function?

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