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by brrrrrm 810 days ago
Cranking up the batch size kills convergence.
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Wonder if that can be avoided by modifying the training approach. Ideas offhand: group by topic, train a subset of weights per node; figure out which layers have the most divergence and reduce lr on those only.
A provable way to recover convergence is to calculate the hessian. It’s computationally expensive but there are approximation methods.