GATE DA 2026 Q29: One SGD step on f(x) = wx
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Consider that for a supervised learning task, the objective function being minimized is , where is the input and is the parameter. Stochastic Gradient Descent with learning rate of 0.10 is used for parameter updates.
Suppose that at the end of iteration , the value of becomes 10.00.
Let be the input for iteration .
The value of at the end of iteration is __________. (Rounded off to two decimal places)
Try it: numerical answer: type the value
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Answer: 8.9 to 9.1 (official GATE 2026 final answer key)
Concept used: Gradient descent update: .
First step: , so .
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Source: official GATE 2026 DA question paper and final answer key, organised by IIT Guwahati. Question paper · Answer key
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