Adam vs AdamW

How models actually learn, from vanilla gradient descent to Adam

Adam and AdamW differ in how they handle weight decay. Adam mixes an L2 penalty into the adaptive gradient update. AdamW applies weight decay as a separate shrinkage step.

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