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by amelius 1658 days ago
Can machine learning be used to do optimization?

What if you applied machine learning to machine learning?

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Yes, you use it to select the parameters of you optimiser, like step size and momentum schedules and other tuneable things. Look up MAML (meta abstract machine learning?)
11 years ago, I did something like that. I was trying to use particle swarm optimization to efficiently update neural network weights, it didn’t work well.

Don’t ask me why I even tried, I was a dumb but code happy undergrad!