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by fnordpiglet 1044 days ago
Seems a little dismissive. I think it’s a pretty interesting result from a theoretical point of view, and might be applied in some situations where you break a harder optimization problem into smaller problems with certain likely shapes of the piece wise problem. Regardless it’s not at all intuitive this pattern should have any optimality in any gradient descent space, so understanding it might yield some more fundamental concepts around more general optimization problems.