Jun 15, 2026
Optimizers: From SGD to AdamW
Lab note Part of the ShivasNotes transformer-from-scratch series. Previously: dL/d(LLM): The Full Backward Pass. The full backward-pass post ended with every weight in the model holding a gr...
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