Exponentially Weighted Average Understanding

[ajaykumar3456]

My understanding in this concept is for the current day temperature approximation, you basically takes the average of the last 1/(1-beta) terms.
When you are increasing beta close to 1 you are taking more number of last terms into account, that smoothens and gives more importance to previous terms and less importance to the current term.
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Prof Ng said the value of the previous terms reduces to 1/3 after (1/1-beta) days. So, are we taking into account only the 1/(1-beta) terms for calculating the average or we are just saying that the values of the previous terms decreases to 1/3 after (1/1-beta) terms and take into account all the terms for calculating the average?

I have attached the implementation too.
Please correct me If I am wrong in my understanding or Implementation

[nramon]

Hi, @ajaykumar3456.

Sorry for the late reply.

Your understanding seems correct to me. You take into account all the terms, 1/(1 - Beta) just gives you a useful approximation.

Since v is initialized to 0, the computed values are rather small initially. As you’ve probably already seen, this problem is addressed in the bias correction lecture

[ajaykumar3456]

Thanks @nramon. That’s not an Issue.
I understood about Bias correction. Prof Ng is saying that The current value reduces to 1/3 after (1/1-beta) terms. This is just for approximation purpose.

[nramon]

Correct. Keep up the good work!