3 papers
cs.LG2025
Implicit Bias of Per-sample Adam on Separable Data: Departure from the Full-batch Regime
Beomhan Baek, Minhak Song, Chulhee Yun
Adam [Kingma & Ba, 2015] is the de facto optimizer in deep learning, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited. Prior analyses show that Adam favors solutions aligned with…
cs.LG2025
Through the River: Understanding the Benefit of Schedule-Free Methods for Language Model Training
Minhak Song, Beomhan Baek, Kwangjun Ahn +1
As both model and dataset sizes continue to scale rapidly, conventional pretraining strategies with fixed compute budgets-such as cosine learning rate schedules-are increasingly in…
cs.LG2025
Understanding Sharpness Dynamics in NN Training with a Minimalist Example: The Effects of Dataset Difficulty, Depth, Stochasticity, and More
Geonhui Yoo, Minhak Song, Chulhee Yun
When training deep neural networks with gradient descent, sharpness often increases -- a phenomenon known as progressive sharpening -- before saturating at the edge of stability. A…