Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
A derivative in which all but one of the variables is considered a constant. For example, the partial derivative of f(x, y) with respect to x is the derivative of f considered as a function of x alone (that is, keeping y constant). The partial derivative of f with respect to x focuses only on how x is changing and ignores all other variables in the equation.
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A research team teaches its junior engineers partial derivatives as the basis for backpropagation in deep learning training.
An academic course on optimization explains partial derivatives to motivate gradient descent and chain-rule-based training.
A research lab uses partial derivatives in its course on optimization to explain gradient-based learning intuitively.
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