Glossary · Math & training

Adam (Optimizer)

Adaptive Moment Estimation. It combines an exponential average of gradients with an exponential average of squared gradients, applies bias correction, and adapts the update scale per parameter. It is a useful baseline, but it still needs a suitable learning rate and schedule.

Common confusion

Adam is a strong baseline, not a universal best optimizer.

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