Keep Gradient Descent from Stalling at Poor Solutions
Company: C3 AI
Role: Data Scientist
Category: Machine Learning
Difficulty: hard
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: Diagnose gradient descent that appears stuck. Separate local minima, saddles, plateaus, poor conditioning, learning-rate problems, and code defects, then choose evidence-based interventions.
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