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    Chapter Roadmap: Optimization and Extrema

    Chapter Roadmap

    The Optimization Journey

    1
    The Terrain
    Local neighborhoods vs global domain. Strict vs non-strict extrema.
    2
    Finding Flat Spots
    Using the gradient to locate stationary points where slope is zero.
    3
    Reading the Curvature
    Deploying the Hessian matrix. Classifying via eigenvalues and principal minors.
    4
    The Convexity Shortcut
    Proving that for convex functions, every local minimum is the global minimum.

    The Core Goal of Optimization

    Core Concept

    The Objective

    Optimization is the mathematical framework for finding the best value of an objective function over a feasible set.

    Minimization
    Find such that for all valid .
    Loss functions in ML
    Maximization
    Find such that .
    Likelihood functions
    Key Insight
    Maximizing is identical to minimizing . We only need tools for minimization.
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