tszzl: local minima are rare in high-dimensional spaces — the greatest whitepill
JensHonack · x · 2026-11-13
AI researcher tszzl argues the greatest whitepill is that local minima are rare in high-dimensional spaces — echoing the classic deep learning insight that vast parameter spaces are dominated by saddle points rather than true local minima, so training dead-ends are rarer than intuition suggests.
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