Schedule-Free AdamW leads optimizer benchmark without workload-specific tuning

Across nine workloads on fixed hardware, one universal Schedule-Free AdamW configuration delivered the best aggregate wall-clock time-to-target.

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Priya Kasimbeg (Alice) · Ahmed Khaled (Alice) · Aahlad Chandrabhatta (Alice) · Yifan Wang (Alice) · Andy Liu (Alice) · Niccolò Ajroldi (Alice) · +6 more
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Kasimbeg et al.

The authors compared training algorithms across nine deep learning workloads, including a new decoder-only language-modeling task using FineWeb-Edu 10B.

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Schedule-Free AdamW ranked first among 13 self-tuning submissions on AlgoPerf V1, without per-workload tuning.

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