Why Warmup Is Not Optional With Adam

How a network computes, why gradients vanish, and what makes depth trainable

optim.3 introduces warmup as part of a recipe: start with a small learning rate, ramp it up over a few thousand steps, then decay. Written like that it sounds like a preference, the kind of thing one lab does and another does not.

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