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Gradient Descent from First Principles: Why Adam Outperforms SGD on Transformers

By Armin Norouzi, Ph.D · Published April 29, 2026 · 1 min read · Source: Level Up Coding
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Gradient Descent from First Principles: Why Adam Outperforms SGD on Transformers

Every transformer you have ever trained was optimised with Adam or AdamW. Most engineers who train them treat the optimizer as a black box…

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