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AdamNX algorithm enhances ML training with novel decay mechanism · 1 source tracked

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Researchers have introduced AdamNX, an optimization algorithm designed to improve upon the existing Adam method for training machine learning models. This new algorithm incorporates a novel exponential decay mechanism for the second-order moment estimate, which aims to make training updates more closely resemble momentum-SGD during plateau phases. The paper presents results across image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation tasks, noting that these findings do not establish broad statistical effects or generalization beyond the reported configurations. The code for AdamNX has been made open-source. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel optimization technique that could improve training efficiency and performance for various machine learning tasks.

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Meng Zhu, Quan Xiao, Weidong Min ·

    AdamNX: An Adam improvement algorithm based on a novel exponential decay mechanism for the second-order moment estimate

    arXiv:2511.13465v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper studies the exponential decay mechanism of the second-moment estimate in Adam. We propose AdamNX and a time-varying second-moment decay rate that gradually weakens the correction applied to the update scale. Und…

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