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Re:Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimizatio... by quanto on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:27AM (#33258106)
This is a 2000-page monograph on those topics in the title. I was hoping that the monograph goes deeper into optimization theory, but it seems that, while the monograph builds up to optimization, it only covers select topics in optimization. The title says it is "for computer science and machine learning." As such, deeper mathematical works in optimization theory understandably do not seem to be the intent behind the monograph.
Re:Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimizatio... by rhymer on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:21AM (#33258409)
Just curious what are the deeper optimization topics you were hoping to see in the monograph?
Re:Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimizatio... by zekrioca on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:28AM (#33258449)
Not OP, but probably Convex Optimization [1].

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxbook.pdf

Re:Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimizatio... by Bimos on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:24AM (#33259200)
Or maybe branch-and-bound? Useful but not that mathematical.
Re:Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimizatio... by chisquared on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:16AM (#33261673)
Judging from the TOC, everything in Part I of Boyd and Vandenberghe appears in some form in the monograph, so I don't think that's it.
Re:Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimizatio... by jpfr on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:45AM (#33262042)
Shameless plug: I hold a lecture on "Optimization Methods for Machine Learning" that goes deep into convex optimization.

Video recordings from the corona period (+ slides) are available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdkTDauaUnQpzuOCZyUUZ...

Re:Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimizatio... by cashsterling on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:42PM (#33264715)
Thank you... I'm going to check out your videos and slides.