1 Introduction  
1.1 The Survey Descent Iteration  
1.2 Linear Convergence and Nonsmooth Objectives  
1.3 Motivation of Survey Descent  
1.4 Related Works  
2 Survey Descent on the Max-of-Smooth Objectives  
3 Connecting Survey Descent and Gradient Descent  
4 Local Linear Convergence of Surveys  
5 Implementing Survey Descent