The document discusses optimization techniques in machine learning, including gradient descent and its variants. It notes that machine learning aims to optimize an objective function by minimizing a loss function using gradient descent. Batch gradient descent and stochastic gradient descent are introduced as algorithms that use gradients to iteratively update model parameters toward minimizing the loss. Adam is presented as a stochastic optimization method. Deep learning models can now automatically learn their own optimization procedures rather than relying on hand-crafted optimization techniques.