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Alec Helbling

@alec_helbling

fullstack ai researcher. ml interpretability, diffusion, visualization. phding @GeorgiaTech. nsf fellow. prev intern @Adobe, @IBMResearch, @NASAJPL.

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Gradient descent alone tends to converge to local minima. Momentum frames optimization as a ball with mass moving down a hill. By adding inertia, the ball resists settling in small basins, allowing it to arrive at the global minimum.