At the end of the concrete plaza that forms the courtyard of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, there is a three-hundred-fifty-foot drop to the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes people explore that ...

In this course, you’ll learn theoretical foundations of optimization methods used for training deep machine learning models. Why does gradient descent work? Specifically, what can we guarantee about ...

The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem. Many aspects of modern applied research ...