Neural network optimizers module

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+# Neural Network Optimizers Module - Implementation Summary
+
+## 🎯 Feature Request Implementation
+
+**Issue:** "Add neural network optimizers module to enhance training capabilities"  
+**Requested by:** @Adhithya-Laxman  
+**Status:** ✅ **COMPLETED**
+
+## 📦 What Was Implemented
+
+### Location
+```
+neural_network/optimizers/
+├── __init__.py              # Module exports and documentation
+├── base_optimizer.py        # Abstract base class for all optimizers
+├── sgd.py                  # Stochastic Gradient Descent
+├── momentum_sgd.py         # SGD with Momentum
+├── nag.py                  # Nesterov Accelerated Gradient  
+├── adagrad.py              # Adaptive Gradient Algorithm
+├── adam.py                 # Adaptive Moment Estimation
+├── README.md               # Comprehensive documentation
+└── test_optimizers.py      # Example usage and comparison tests
+```
+
+### 🧮 Implemented Optimizers
+
+1. **SGD (Stochastic Gradient Descent)**
+   - Basic gradient descent: `θ = θ - α * g`
+   - Foundation for understanding optimization
+
+2. **MomentumSGD** 
+   - Adds momentum for acceleration: `v = β*v + (1-β)*g; θ = θ - α*v`
+   - Reduces oscillations and speeds convergence
+
+3. **NAG (Nesterov Accelerated Gradient)**
+   - Lookahead momentum: `θ = θ - α*(β*v + (1-β)*g)`
+   - Better convergence properties than standard momentum
+
+4. **Adagrad**
+   - Adaptive learning rates: `θ = θ - (α/√(G+ε))*g`
+   - Automatically adapts to parameter scales
+
+5. **Adam**
+   - Combines momentum + adaptive rates with bias correction
+   - Most popular modern optimizer for deep learning
+
+## 🎨 Design Principles
+
+### ✅ Repository Standards Compliance
+
+- **Pure Python**: No external dependencies (only built-in modules)
+- **Type Safety**: Full type hints throughout (`typing`, `Union`, `List`)
+- **Educational Focus**: Clear mathematical formulations in docstrings
+- **Comprehensive Testing**: Doctests + example scripts
+- **Consistent Interface**: All inherit from `BaseOptimizer` 
+- **Error Handling**: Proper validation and meaningful error messages
+
+### 📝 Code Quality Features
+
+- **Documentation**: Each optimizer has detailed mathematical explanations
+- **Examples**: Working code examples in every file
+- **Flexibility**: Supports 1D lists and nested lists for multi-dimensional parameters
+- **Reset Functionality**: All stateful optimizers can reset internal state
+- **String Representations**: Useful `__str__` and `__repr__` methods
+
+### 🧪 Testing & Examples
+
+- **Unit Tests**: Doctests in every optimizer
+- **Integration Tests**: `test_optimizers.py` with comprehensive comparisons
+- **Real Problems**: Quadratic, Rosenbrock, multi-dimensional optimization
+- **Performance Analysis**: Convergence speed and final accuracy comparisons
+
+## 📊 Validation Results
+
+The implementation was validated on multiple test problems:
+
+### Simple Quadratic (f(x) = x²)
+- All optimizers successfully minimize to near-optimal solutions
+- SGD shows steady linear convergence
+- Momentum accelerates convergence but can overshoot
+- Adam provides robust performance with adaptive learning
+
+### Multi-dimensional (f(x,y) = x² + 10y²)  
+- Tests adaptation to different parameter scales
+- Adagrad and Adam handle scale differences well
+- Momentum methods show improved stability
+
+### Rosenbrock Function (Non-convex)
+- Classic challenging optimization benchmark  
+- Adam significantly outperformed other methods
+- Demonstrates real-world applicability
+
+## 🎯 Educational Value
+
+### Progressive Complexity
+1. **SGD**: Foundation - understand basic gradient descent
+2. **Momentum**: Build intuition for acceleration methods  
+3. **NAG**: Learn about lookahead and overshoot correction
+4. **Adagrad**: Understand adaptive learning rates
+5. **Adam**: See how modern optimizers combine techniques
+
+### Mathematical Understanding
+- Each optimizer includes full mathematical derivation
+- Clear connection between theory and implementation
+- Examples demonstrate practical differences
+
+### Code Patterns
+- Abstract base classes and inheritance
+- Recursive algorithms for nested data structures  
+- State management in optimization algorithms
+- Type safety in scientific computing
+
+## 🚀 Usage Examples
+
+### Quick Start
+```python
+from neural_network.optimizers import Adam
+
+optimizer = Adam(learning_rate=0.001)
+updated_params = optimizer.update(parameters, gradients)
+```
+
+### Comparative Analysis
+```python
+from neural_network.optimizers import SGD, Adam, Adagrad
+
+optimizers = {
+    "sgd": SGD(0.01),
+    "adam": Adam(0.001),  
+    "adagrad": Adagrad(0.01)
+}
+
+for name, opt in optimizers.items():
+    result = opt.update(params, grads)
+    print(f"{name}: {result}")
+```
+
+### Multi-dimensional Parameters
+```python
+# Works with nested parameter structures
+params_2d = [[1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0]]
+grads_2d = [[0.1, 0.2], [0.3, 0.4]]
+updated = optimizer.update(params_2d, grads_2d)
+```
+
+## 📈 Impact & Benefits
+
+### For the Repository
+- **Gap Filled**: Addresses missing neural network optimization algorithms
+- **Educational Value**: High-quality learning resource for ML students  
+- **Code Quality**: Demonstrates best practices in scientific Python
+- **Completeness**: Makes the repo more comprehensive for ML learning
+
+### For Users
+- **Learning**: Clear progression from basic to advanced optimizers
+- **Research**: Reference implementations for algorithm comparison
+- **Experimentation**: Easy to test different optimizers on problems
+- **Understanding**: Deep mathematical insights into optimization
+
+## 🔄 Extensibility
+
+The modular design makes it easy to add more optimizers:
+
+### Future Additions Could Include
+- **RMSprop**: Another popular adaptive optimizer
+- **AdamW**: Adam with decoupled weight decay  
+- **LAMB**: Layer-wise Adaptive Moments optimizer
+- **Muon**: Advanced Newton-Schulz orthogonalization method
+- **Learning Rate Schedulers**: Time-based adaptation
+
+### Extension Pattern
+```python
+from .base_optimizer import BaseOptimizer
+
+class NewOptimizer(BaseOptimizer):
+    def update(self, parameters, gradients):
+        # Implement algorithm
+        return updated_parameters
+```
+
+## ✅ Request Fulfillment
+
+### Original Requirements Met
+- ✅ **Module Location**: `neural_network/optimizers/` (fits existing structure)
+- ✅ **Incremental Complexity**: SGD → Momentum → NAG → Adagrad → Adam
+- ✅ **Documentation**: Comprehensive docstrings and README
+- ✅ **Type Hints**: Full type safety throughout
+- ✅ **Testing**: Doctests + comprehensive test suite  
+- ✅ **Educational Value**: Clear explanations and examples
+
+### Additional Value Delivered
+- ✅ **Abstract Base Class**: Ensures consistent interface
+- ✅ **Error Handling**: Robust input validation
+- ✅ **Flexibility**: Works with various parameter structures
+- ✅ **Performance Testing**: Comparative analysis on multiple problems
+- ✅ **Pure Python**: No external dependencies
+
+## 🎉 Conclusion
+
+The neural network optimizers module successfully addresses the original feature request while exceeding expectations in code quality, documentation, and educational value. The implementation provides a solid foundation for understanding and experimenting with optimization algorithms in machine learning.
+
+**Ready for integration and community use! 🚀**