Gradient descent overshoot - why does it diverge? I'm thinking about gradient descent, but I don't get it.
I understand that it can overshoot the minimum when the learning rate is too large. But I can't understand why it would diverge.
Let's say we have 

$$J(\theta_0, \theta_1) = \frac{1}{2m}\sum_{i=1}^m (h_\theta(x^i)-y^i)^2$$

$$\theta_1 := \theta_1-\alpha\frac{\partial}{\partial\theta_1}J(\theta_1)$$  

When the slope is negative the cost will converge to the minimum from the left of the graph, as $\theta_1$ will increase.
When the slope is positive it will converge from the right of the graph, as $\theta_1$ will decrease.
Now it might overshoot when the learning rate $\alpha$ is too large.
In that case it should overshoot again.
But not by much, should it not circle around the minimum? Why would it diverge?
If you overshoot by 10% you are fine, for example if the solution is 0 and the starting value 1000, you go to -100, +10, -1, +0.1 etc. If you overshoot by 80%, you converge but much smaller. If you overshoot by 110% you go from 1,000 to -1,100, +1,210, -1,331 etc. - divergence.