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Which second-order optimization method uses the inverse of the Hessian matrix to determine the update direction?

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Newton's Method

Newton's Method converges faster than gradient descent by using local curvature information. However, calculating and inverting the Hessian matrix is computationally expensive, often leading to the use of Quasi-Newton methods like L-BFGS.

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