Loss Landscape Explorer

Sandbox Walk the loss surface, hunt for minima, and see where the optimizers end up.

Movement & camera

Capture mouse · Hills affect speed Tank controls (A/D turn) Mouse sensitivity

Map size

Global minimum

Ground color Contour lines Daytime Show my path P Gradient arrow (−∇, downhill) Highlight local minima found

Light radius Counts as found within

Sandbox

The ground's height is the loss. Explore it in the dark, hunt for minima, and let optimizers loose from wherever you stand.

Click to look around · Esc releases the mouse

Fog of war: only ground you (or an optimizer) have visited is revealed. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan; "Follow" keeps the map centered on you.

×1

x –

explored 0%

z –

local 0

loss –

global 0

|∇| –

sector –

Learning rate Steps per run

Escaping local minima

Learning-rate schedule

Noise Prefer wide valleys (SAM)

Playback speed Camera follows the optimizer