[comp.ai.neural-nets] Conjugate Gradients vs. Gradient Descent?

loren@tristan.llnl.gov (Loren Petrich) (09/14/90)

	I checked on the subject of Conjugate Gradients in that big
book, "Numerical Recipes", and it did not seem to be anything other
than gradient descent.

	If I am in error about this, please correct me, and write out
the basic Conjugate Gradient algorithm, with the Gradient Descent
algorithm nearby.

	I think that it would be helpful to post the basic forms of
Gradient Descent and of modifications of it and of other algorithms,
just so one can readily compare them.


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