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In statistics this refers to selecting an estimator of a parameter by maximizing or minimizing some function of the data. One very common example is choosing an estimator which maximizes the joint density (or mass function) of the observed data referred to as Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE).

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Guidelines for selecting an optimizer for training neural networks

I have been using neural networks for a while now. However, one thing that I constantly struggle with is the selection of an optimizer for training the network (using backprop). What I usually do is j …
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