Duality theorems

Introduction Optimization shows up everywhere in machine learning, from the ubiquitous gradient descent to quadratic programming in SVM, to expectation-maximization algorithm in Gaussian mixture models. However, one aspect of optimization that always puzzled me is duality: what on earth are a primal form and dual form of an optimization problem, and what good do they serve? Therefore, in this project, I will: Go …

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