Gradient Descent Converges to Minimizers

16 Feb 2016  ·  Jason D. Lee, Max Simchowitz, Michael. I. Jordan, Benjamin Recht ·

We show that gradient descent converges to a local minimizer, almost surely with random initialization. This is proved by applying the Stable Manifold Theorem from dynamical systems theory.

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