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I recently have been looking at a paper titled "Why Warmup the Learning Rate? Underlying Mechanisms and Improvements", by Dayal Singh Kalra and Maissam Barkeshli, and was struck by "warmup" being analogous to simulated annealing.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09405
Taking the physical analogy further, the "warmup" is a stochastic process to knock the system out of current local minima, allowing easier transition toward newer minima. It works because it reduces "fit" and therefore "friction".
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09405
Taking the physical analogy further, the "warmup" is a stochastic process to knock the system out of current local minima, allowing easier transition toward newer minima. It works because it reduces "fit" and therefore "friction".