Gradient_descent.ipynb

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    "# source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent\n",
    "# From calculation, it is expected that the local minimum occurs at x=9/4\n",
    "\n",
    "current_x = 0.5 # The algorithm starts at x=6\n",
    "learning_rate = 0.01 # step size multiplier\n",
    "epoch = 60 # the number of times to train the function\n",
    "\n",
    "def result_of_the_equation(x): \n",
    "    return 5 * x**4 - 6 * x**2\n",
    "\n",
    "for i in range(epoch):\n",
    "    previous_x = current_x\n",
    "    current_x += -learning_rate * result_of_the_equation(previous_x)\n",
    "    print(previous_x)\n",
    "\n",
    "print(\"The local minimum occurs at %f\" % current_x)"
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