Gradient Descent, Momentum, RMSProp, and Adam all aim for the same minimum. They do not change the destination, only the path. Each method adds a mechanism that fixes a limitation of the previous one, making the movement faster, more stable, or more adaptive. The goal stays the same. The update becomes smarter.
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