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The size of the step the optimizer takes when adjusting parameters. Too high and training diverges; too low and progress is glacial. Modern training jobs use learning rate schedules that warm up at the start and decay over time, often combined with adaptive optimizers such as Adam that scale the step per parameter.
Learning rate is the single most commonly tuned hyperparameter. Reading a training log and recognizing a learning-rate problem separates engineers who can debug models from engineers who can only run them.
The size of the step the optimizer takes when adjusting parameters. Too high and training diverges; too low and progress is glacial. Modern training jobs use learning rate schedules that warm up at the start and decay over time, often combined with adaptive optimizers such as Adam that scale the step per parameter.
Learning rate is the single most commonly tuned hyperparameter. Reading a training log and recognizing a learning-rate problem separates engineers who can debug models from engineers who can only run them.
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