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An adaptive algorithm for gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions, often used to train deep neural networks.

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SGD disadvantage is scale gradient to all directions and Adam is fixed it. How can it be? [closed]

SGD disadvantage is scale gradient to all directions and Adam is fixed it. How can it be? How is the example if depicted in a graph?
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How to prove that my neural network satisfies convergence assumptions of the Adam optimizer?

Recently, I read a paper (this paper) that provides convergence analysis of the Adam optimizer without assuming the smoothness condition of the loss function. Suppose I have a neural network $f(\theta)...
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How to prove the smoothness assumption of the loss function in the convergence of the Adam optimizer?

I have read 2 papers (this and this) about the convergence of the Adam optimizer. One of the assumptions is the smoothness of the loss function, meaning that the gradient of the loss function is ...
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t in adam optimizer [closed]

I'm newbie in NN and I get confused about frequency t in adam optimizer. if I have NN with architecture like this: Can't it be said that Xk (k=1,2,..., n), where n is the number of input data? in the ...
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VGG-16 Why Validation loss is going up and down?

I am implementing VGG-16 using this cats vs dogs dataset, and am comparing the results with SGD vs Adam and getting similar results. Here's my parameters for using Adam ...
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Turning point of Adam optimizer for LSTM

I'm training a two-layer LSTM with Adam optimizer for time-series data. I encountered several times that there was a "turning point" of the MAE vs. epochs plot. Is this a normal behavior?
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Which is better: performance stability or high performance in the initial epochs but extremely unstable performance during validation?

I am working on a multiclassification problem using time series data. I am using a hybrid model (such as LSTM, CNN, attention, etc.). I tried two optimizers, ADAM with 0.001 learning rate and SGD with ...
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Stochastic objective function in Adam [duplicate]

Relating to the question What is a stochastic objective function?. In the paper of the Adam Algorithm they also mention a Stochastic objective function when explaining the algorithm. In this context I ...
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When is RMSprop Gradient Descent better than Momentum Gradient Descent

Can you give an example where RMSprop is better than momentum? In what cases does RMSprop (i.e. scaling $d\Theta_i$) help, but Momentum does not? How is the combination of Momentum and RMSprop (i.e. ...
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What is a random variable in ADAM optimizer?

Look at the definition of ADAM optimizer, from the original paper of Kingma and Ba (paper): See algorithm $1$ for pseudo-code of our proposed algorithm Adam. Let $f(\theta)$ be a noisy objective ...
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Why Exponential Weighted Average in RMSProp

In optimization algorithms such as RMSProp, Adam, etc. why is an exponential weighted average used over a straight sum and divide? Seemingly an exponential weighted average would be useful when the ...
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ADAM bias correction derivation

Where $\beta_2\in [0,1)$ and $g_i$ is the gradient at step i. We approximate E[gi^2] with E[gt^2] by a correction term $\zeta$. I think this is because it is assumed that the gradients are bounded. Is ...
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Why does Adam optimizer seems to prevail over Nadam optimizer? [closed]

I have been studying the way Adam optimizer works, and how it combines both RMSProp and Momentum optimizers. So the following question arises: Why not combine Nesterov Accelerated Gradient together ...
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Adam optimizer with distributed training

Does Adam optimizer applicable to either method of distributed training BSP, ASP, SSP or it can be used with synchronous mode only ?
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Why does ADAM optimization perform well on non-convex functions and bad on convex functions?

I'm currently trying to understand SGD and ADAM optimization, and I understand that ADAM optimization performs well on non-convex loss functions and that SGD performs well on convex loss functions (...
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How should I set $\vec{\mu}$ in NAdam optimization?

In Dozat 2016 they introduce a sequence of hyperparameters $\mu_0, \cdots, \mu_T$ where $T$ is the total number of iterations. Naturally $T$ is dependent on the convergence of the parameters, so it ...
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Increasing training set decreases accuracy

I've ~16000 labeled data. I split it in ~8000 for training and ~8000 for testing of my RBF neural network, find the best hyperparameters (RMSE from 1.2 to 1.4*) and finally train the model on the ...
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How should i expect exponential decay to work in this case? (Adam optimizer)

I was facing high learning rate issues i.e., validation loss started to diverge after 9-13 epochs. In order mitigate that i have significantly reduced the learning rate from 4e-3 to 4e-4 and ...
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When do Adaptive Optimization Algorithms modify their parameters?

When do "Ada" optimizers (e.g. Adagrad, Adam, etc...) "adapt" their parameters? Is it at the end of each mini-batch or epoch?
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Why adversarial training prefer SGD over Adam?

Why adversarial training methods (e.g. Trades) use SGD as optimizer rather than Adam?
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When to use weight decay for ADAM optimiser?

If you use weight decay for gradient descent (ADAM specifically) do you need to use regularisation for loss function? I believe the answer is yes since the gradient descent involves the ...
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Gradient based optimization of step function w.r.t number of steps

I am trying to optimize the parameter b in the following simple function using gradient descent in PyTorch: $$ y = \frac{\lfloor{xb} \rfloor + 0.5}{b} $$ x is in $[0,1]$ and b is continuous and in $[5,...
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spikes in training CNN using Adam

I have an instability issue when training CNN on high dimensional data. I train Unet-3D model (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.04597.pdf) with batch normalization layer before each convolution layer. My ...
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Adam (adaptive) optimizer(s) learning rate tuning

I'm reading Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & Tensorflow and on page 325 (follows up on 326) there's a following piece of text on learning-rate: The learning is arguably the ...
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Pathological curvature

How common is the issue of pathological curvature? I have been reading a post on the internet about it, and I would like to know how common this happens with deep learning models. Could you also ...
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Training a neural network on chess data

I have been writing a chess engine with a friend and the engine itself is really good already (2700+ CCRL). We had the idea to use a neural network to have a better evaluation of positions. Input to ...
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Momentum vs Polyak averaging

I'm going through this deck but don't quite get the difference between momentum and Polyak averaging, and what role Polyak averaging plays in modern optimizers. For example, is it correct to say that ...
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What is a stochastic objective function?

In the paper "ADAM: A METHOD FOR STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION" they write in the introduction "Often, objective functions are stochastic." I know what a stochastic gradient descent is, but what does it ...
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Adam converges while SGD does not improve at all

I am trying to build a model based movie recommendation system with a neural network. The architecture looks as follows: ...
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Do we have guarantees about Adam's convergence when we reach an region with gradient $0$?

Recall the Adam update rule: $$m_t = \beta_1 m_{t-1} + (1 - \beta_1) g_t$$ $$v_t = \beta_2 v_{t-1} + (1 - \beta_2) g_t^2$$ $$\hat{m}_t = \dfrac{m_t}{1 - \beta^t_1}$$ $$\hat{v}_t = \dfrac{v_t}{1 - \...
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step size in the first epochs of adam are too large [closed]

When I train models in keras with keras.optimizers.Adam(learning_rate=0.001), I typically get a history of the training error over the training time in epochs like in the plot below. This looks like ...
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understanding bias correction in ADAM algorithm [duplicate]

why is possible to approximate E[gi^2] with E[gt^2]? by the time we go to the t timestamp, we've already made weight updates, which mean gradients should be different as they are taken from different ...
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Different optimization behaviours on delta vs non-delta targets

I built a simple classification model that is required to predict a probability distribution for a set of two available classes. The target distributions are not necessarily delta distributions. i.e ...
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SGD versus Adamax on XOR operator

I am trying to resolve the xor operator using neural networks, and to accomplish that this is my code: ...
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Combining Random forest with Adam (or an other gradient method)

There is no "gradient" in the standard Random Forest formulation, but can I combine random Forests with an optimisation method like Gradient Descent or SGD? Can I use Adam (Adaptive moment estimation)...
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How well should I expect Adam to work?

I've been coding up a neural network package for my own amusement, and it seems to work. I've been reading about Adam and from what I've seen it's very difficult to beat. Well, when I implement the ...
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What does decay_steps mean in Tensorflow tf.train.exponential_decay?

I am trying to implement an exponential learning rate decay with the Adam optimizer for a LSTM. I do not want the 'staircase = true' version. The decay_steps for me feels like the number of steps that ...
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Why we call ADAM an a adaptive learning rate algorithm if the step size is a constant

In the book "Deep Learning" by Goodfellow et.al, the ADAM algorithm is described in sub-chapter 8.5 "Algorithm with Adaptive Learning Rate". To my understanding an adaptive learning rate should ...
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Adam optimizer's escape from local minima [duplicate]

I noticed some interesting behaviour in my loss history while training my model. Please note the sudden change in test loss at around epoch 106. A similar drop will appear around epoch ~1000. It ...
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How to select parameters for ADAM gradient descent

I am using ADAM for performing gradient descent. I am having difficulty in setting the learning rate, $\beta_1$ and $\beta_2$. Along with gradient descent, I am projecting the paramters on $L_1$ ball ...
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what is the mistake of convergence proof in Adam

Sashank J. Reddi et. al in their paper "On the convergence of Adam and beyond" say that, Adam's proof of convergence as stated in original paper is wrong. More than that, they point out that the value ...
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Understanding a derivation of bias correction for the Adam optimizer

I'm reading paper about the Adam optimizer and went up until the bias-correction section; in the paper they estimate the bias of the moving average of the squared gradient. These are the equations ...
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Adaptive Moment Estimate - What is meant by parameters of Adam optimizer are biased towards zero initially? [duplicate]

Let us consider the Adam optimizer with the equation given below: $w_{t + 1} = w_{t} - \frac{\eta \times \bar{m_t}} {\sqrt{\bar{v_t} + \epsilon}}$ Here $w$ denotes weight (in time $t$ and $t + 1$) ...
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What does Diagonal Rescaling of the gradients mean in ADAM paper?

I was reading the original paper on ADAM (Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization), which mentions: [...] invariant to diagonal rescaling of the gradients, [...] What does it mean? Also, ...
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Two large decreses in loss function with ADAM optimizer

I am training an RNN with tensorflow using the ADAM optimizer. The loss with respect to iteration has a sort of "two stage" decrease. As shown in the image below. The task itself if just trying to ...
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Decreasing accuracy of neural network after long training

I trained a MLP network in Tensorflow which reached at some point 98.66 % accuracy. I used the MNIST data set and five hidden layers of the following size: 4096, 2048, 4096, 2048, 4096. In Tensorflow ...
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Etymology of "Adam" algorithm for gradient descent

What is the history behind the choice of the name "Adam" as used in Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization?
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Do we need to normalize inputs when using adaptive learning rate optimizers?

As stated in this thread Why do we need to normalize the images before we put them into CNN?, normalization of the inputs to a deep network to have zero mean and unit-deviation will make SGD more ...
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Difference between Stochastic Approximation (SA) and Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)

I understand the intended use cases for both stochastic approximation algorithms like SPSA or FDSA, and for SGD algorithms like Adam. SPSA is intended for noisy objective functions, and Adam for ...
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What should we do when changing SGD optimizer to Adam optimizer?

Adam is one popular method of the optimization policies with adaptive learning rate. I'm focusing on a image segmentation project using fully convolutional networks. All weights were initialized by ...
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