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most citedConvergence rates for the Adam optimizer

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cs.LG2026

Convergence rates for the RMSprop optimizer with full control of the hyperparameters

Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen

Popular adaptive stochastic gradient descent (SGD) methods to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems include the RMSprop, the Adam, and the AdamW optimizers, where the adaptivi…

math.OC2026

On MUON optimization: From non-convergence to an error analysis with Polar Express and the Newton-Schulz polynomial from implementations

Thang Do, Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization methods are the standard instruments for the training of deep neural networks (DNNs). In many relevant artificial intelligence (AI) s…

math.PR2026

Central limit theorem for the averaged Adam optimizer

Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen

In this article, we analyse convergence of the averaged Adam optimizer to an attracting zero of the Adam vector field. We provide a central limit theorem that, in particular, quant…

cs.LG2026

Uniform a priori bounds and error analysis for the Adam stochastic gradient descent optimization method

Steffen Dereich, Thang Do, Arnulf Jentzen

The adaptive moment estimation (Adam) optimizer proposed by Kingma & Ba (2014) is presumably the most popular stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method for the training…

math.OC2025

ODE approximation for the Adam algorithm: General and overparametrized setting

Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen, Sebastian Kassing

The Adam optimizer is currently presumably the most popular optimization method in deep learning. In this article we develop an ODE based method to study the Adam optimizer in a fa…

math.OC2025

Adam symmetry theorem: characterization of the convergence of the stochastic Adam optimizer

Steffen Dereich, Thang Do, Arnulf Jentzen +1

Beside the standard stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method, the Adam optimizer due to Kingma & Ba (2014) is currently probably the best-known optimization method for the training…

math.OC2025

Asymptotic stability properties and a priori bounds for Adam and other gradient descent optimization methods

Steffen Dereich, Robin Graeber, Arnulf Jentzen +1

Gradient descent (GD) based optimization methods are these days the standard tools to train deep neural networks in artificial intelligence systems. In optimization procedures in d…

cs.LG2025

SAD Neural Networks: Divergent Gradient Flows and Asymptotic Optimality via o-minimal Structures

Julian Kranz, Davide Gallon, Steffen Dereich +1

We study gradient flows for loss landscapes of fully connected feedforward neural networks with commonly used continuously differentiable activation functions such as the logistic,…

math.OC2025

Sharp higher order convergence rates for the Adam optimizer

Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen, Adrian Riekert

Gradient descent based optimization methods are the methods of choice to train deep neural networks in machine learning. Beyond the standard gradient descent method, also suitable…

cs.LG2025

In almost all shallow analytic neural network optimization landscapes, efficient minimizers have strongly convex neighborhoods

Felix Benning, Steffen Dereich

Whether or not a local minimum of a cost function has a strongly convex neighborhood greatly influences the asymptotic convergence rate of optimizers. In this article, we rigorousl…

cs.LG2025

Mathematical analysis of the gradients in deep learning

Steffen Dereich, Thang Do, Arnulf Jentzen +1

Deep learning algorithms -- typically consisting of a class of deep artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained by a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method -- are nowa…

math.OC2025

Averaged Adam accelerates stochastic optimization in the training of deep neural network approximations for partial differential equation and optimal control problems

Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen, Adrian Riekert

Deep learning methods - usually consisting of a class of deep neural networks (DNNs) trained by a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method - are nowadays omnipresent i…

math.OC2024★ 2 cited

Convergence rates for the Adam optimizer

Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization methods are nowadays the method of choice for the training of deep neural networks (DNNs) in artificial intelligence systems. In prac…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Non-convergence of Adam and other adaptive stochastic gradient descent optimization methods for non-vanishing learning rates

Steffen Dereich, Robin Graeber, Arnulf Jentzen

Deep learning algorithms - typically consisting of a class of deep neural networks trained by a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method - are nowadays the key ingredi…

math.OC2024

Learning rate adaptive stochastic gradient descent optimization methods: numerical simulations for deep learning methods for partial differential equations and convergence analyses

Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen, Adrian Riekert

The standard stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method, as well as adaptive methods such as the Adam optimizer fail to converge if the learning rates do not converge to…