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Explore the fundamental steps of gradient descent including initialization, forward pass, loss calculation, and parameter updates using a simple linear regression model in Numpy. Understand different gradient descent techniques, effects of learning rates, and the importance of feature scaling, setting a solid foundation before applying PyTorch.

What to expect from this chapter

In this chapter, we will:

  • Define a simple linear regression model.

  • Walkthrough every step of gradient descent: initializing parameters, forward pass, computing errors and loss, computing gradients, ...