In mathematics, the idea of descent extends the intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology. Since the topologists' glue is the use of equivalence relations...

Diophantine equations Descent (mathematics), an idea extending the notion of "gluing" in topology Hadamard's method of descent, a technique for solving...

Gradient descent is a method for unconstrained mathematical optimization. It is a first-order iterative algorithm for minimizing a differentiable multivariate...

In mathematics, mirror descent is an iterative optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable function. It generalizes algorithms...

Jared Wilber. "Double Descent: Part 1: A Visual Introduction". Brent Werness; Jared Wilber. "Double Descent: Part 2: A Mathematical Explanation". Understanding...

Stochastic gradient descent (often abbreviated SGD) is an iterative method for optimizing an objective function with suitable smoothness properties (e...

descriptions as a fallback Derived category – Homological construction Descent (mathematics) Dévissage DF-space – class of special local-convex spacePages displaying...

networks. Adaptive coordinate descent – Improvement of the coordinate descent algorithm Conjugate gradient – Mathematical optimization algorithmPages displaying...

categories and descent theory" (PDF). Waterhouse, William (1979), Introduction to affine group schemes, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 66, Berlin...

In mathematics, a proof by infinite descent, also known as Fermat's method of descent, is a particular kind of proof by contradiction used to show that...