Your LR Schedule May Not Be Principled: Effective Learning Rate Scheduling in Weight-Normalized Training

Weight-normalized (WN) training is emerging as a compelling alternative to conventional weight decay (WD), with recent studies reporting substantial pretraining loss gains. We show that these gains are driven primarily by the induced effective learning rate (ELR) trajectory rather than by normalization alone. Matching

阅读原文 · Qifan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Xingyan Bin, Di He