why does optimisers matter? what's their purpose? what do they do in addition to weights-updation that the vanilla gradient and back-prop does?

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Optimizers are used to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the training process in machine learning models.

  • Optimizers help in finding the optimal set of weights for a given model by minimizing the ...read more

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