Optimization Nuggets: Stochastic Polyak Step-size, Part 2
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Fabian Pedregosa invited me to write a joint blog post on a convergence proof for the stochastic Polyak step size (SPS).
Blog posts
2023
Decay No More
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I wrote a blog post which got published at the ICLR blog post track 2023. The post is titled Decay No More and explains the details of AdamW and its weight decay mechanism. Check it out here.
2022
Solve it all and solve it fast: using numba for optimization in Python
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When implementing optimization algorithms, we typically have to balance the following goals:
A collection of resources for creating open-source software packages
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Making your research code open-source, tested and documented is quite simple nowadays. This post gives an overview of the most important steps and collects useful ressources, e.g. tutorials for Readthedocs, Sphinx (Gallery) and unit testing in Python.