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AI Glossary / Optimizer

Optimizer

An optimizer applies gradients to update parameters: SGD, Momentum, Adam, AdamW, and many variants.

AdamW is the default for most transformer training. Choice interacts with LR schedule, weight decay, and batch size — tune as a system, not in isolation.

Related terms

  • Adam
  • Gradient Descent
  • Stochastic Gradient Descent
  • Learning Rate

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