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PyTorch implementation of NovoGrad

Install

pip install novograd

Notice

When using NovoGrad, learning rate scheduler play an important role. Do not forget to set it.

Performance

MNIST

Under Trained 3 epochs, same Architecture Neural Netwrok.

	Test Acc(%)	lr	lr scheduler	beta1	beta2	weight decay
Momentum SGD	96.92	0.01	None	0.9	N/A	0.001
Adam	96.72	0.001	None	0.9	0.999	0.001
AdamW	97.34	0.001	None	0.9	0.999	0.001
NovoGrad	97.55	0.01	cosine	0.95	0.98	0.001

Refference

Boris Ginsburg, Patrice Castonguay, Oleksii Hrinchuk, Oleksii Kuchaiev, Vitaly Lavrukhin, Ryan Leary, Jason Li, Huyen Nguyen, Jonathan M. Cohen, Stochastic Gradient Methods with Layer-wise Adaptive Moments for Training of Deep Networks, arXiv:1905.11286 [cs.LG], https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.11286.pdf