Trajectory

[farhana_hossain]

Hi, will batch gradient descent always follow a smooth trajectory? Will non-batch methods result in a zigzag trajectory if the subsets at each step are different?

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  https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/lecture/349Ay/running-gradient-descent

[TMosh]

@farhana_hossain

will batch gradient descent always follow a smooth trajectory

Probably not.

@farhana_hossain

Will non-batch methods result in a zigzag trajectory if the subsets at each step are different?

Non-batch methods don’t have subsets.