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Description

example.quadratic.approx Shows how the quadratic approximations for the function in Example 1 change with choice of alpha.

Usage

example.quadratic.approx(alpha1 = 0.01, alpha2 = 0.12)

Arguments

alpha1	A smaller step-size for the gradient descent algorithm.
alpha2	A larger step-size for the gradient descent algorithm. (alpha2 > alpha1)

Author(s)

Jocelyn T. Chi

Examples

example.quadratic.approx(alpha1=0.01, alpha2=0.12)

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