A Trust-region Framework for Moment Estimation
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arXiv:2608.04026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we develop a trust-region framework for understanding the behavior of adaptive moment estimation mechanisms, such as \textsc{Adam}, in stochastic gradient optimization. Specifically, the magnitude of the update step associated with each individual parameter is constrained by a finite-order $p$-moment trust-region, with $p\ge1$. The resulting derivation leads to a family of learning-rate mechanisms based on second-moment estimation and normalized $p$-th-moment estimation. For $p=4$, this involves kurtosis estimation. Subse
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- arXiv:2608.04026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we develop a trust-region framework for understanding the behavior of adaptive moment estimation mechanisms, such as \textsc{Adam}, in stochastic gradient optimization.
- Specifically, the magnitude of the update step associated with each individual parameter is constrained by a finite-order $p$-moment trust-region, with $p\ge1$.
- The resulting derivation leads to a family of learning-rate mechanisms based on second-moment estimation and normalized $p$-th-moment estimation.
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