% Key papers for Adam convergence and adaptive learning rates (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{iclr2019_decoupled_28799, title = {{Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2019/poster/935}, } @inproceedings{iclr2018_on_28716, title = {{On the Convergence of Adam and Beyond}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/78}, } @inproceedings{iclr2020_on_29848, title = {{On the Variance of the Adaptive Learning Rate and Beyond}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=rkgz2aEKDr}, } @inproceedings{neurips2017_the_56718, title = {{The Marginal Value of Adaptive Gradient Methods in Machine Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2017/poster/9195}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2019_a_13794, title = {{A Sufficient Condition for Convergences of Adam and RMSProp}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2019}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_lookahead_58560, title = {{Lookahead Optimizer: k steps forward, 1 step back}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/13994}, } @inproceedings{iclr2019_adaptive_28798, title = {{Adaptive Gradient Methods with Dynamic Bound of Learning Rate}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2019/poster/974}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_adabelief_59313, title = {{AdaBelief Optimizer: Adapting Stepsizes by the Belief in Observed Gradients}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/16809}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_adamp_30175, title = {{AdamP: Slowing Down the Slowdown for Momentum Optimizers on Scale-invariant Weights}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/2880}, } @inproceedings{icml2018_dissecting_36647, title = {{Dissecting Adam: The Sign, Magnitude and Variance of Stochastic Gradients}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2018/poster/2002}, } @inproceedings{iclr2018_online_28456, title = {{Online Learning Rate Adaptation with Hypergradient Descent}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/14}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_why_61107, title = {{Why are Adaptive Methods Good for Attention Models?}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/18194}, } @inproceedings{aaai2021_on_1091, title = {{On the Adequacy of Untuned Warmup for Adaptive Optimization}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/08828-on-the-adequacy-of-untuned-warmup-for-adaptive-optimization/}, } @inproceedings{neurips2018_l4_57262, title = {{L4: Practical loss-based stepsize adaptation for deep learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2018/poster/11622}, } @inproceedings{iclr2019_adashift_28941, title = {{AdaShift: Decorrelation and Convergence of Adaptive Learning Rate Methods}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2019/poster/718}, } @inproceedings{icml2021_how_39428, title = {{How Do Adam and Training Strategies Help BNNs Optimization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/poster/8613}, } @inproceedings{iclr2019_deep_29087, title = {{Deep Frank-Wolfe For Neural Network Optimization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2019/poster/975}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_metainit_58597, title = {{MetaInit: Initializing learning by learning to initialize}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/14216}, } @inproceedings{aaai2019_hyperadam_101751, title = {{HyperAdam: A Learnable Task-Adaptive Adam for Network Training}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/4466}, } @inproceedings{icml2022_adaptive_40223, title = {{Adaptive Inertia: Disentangling the Effects of Adaptive Learning Rate and Momentum}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2022/poster/17065}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_why_72584, title = {{Why Transformers Need Adam: A Hessian Perspective}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94790}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_zo_7840, title = {{ZO-AdaMU Optimizer: Adapting Perturbation by the Momentum and Uncertainty in Zeroth-Order Optimization}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29796}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_surge_73362, title = {{Surge Phenomenon in Optimal Learning Rate and Batch Size Scaling}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94086}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_prodigy_44067, title = {{Prodigy: An Expeditiously Adaptive Parameter-Free Learner}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34385}, } @inproceedings{iclr2026_cautious_89462, title = {{Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of Code}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=zBPZeRjfgu}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_understanding_45086, title = {{Understanding Adam Optimizer via Online Learning of Updates: Adam is FTRL in Disguise}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33366}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_adopt_74129, title = {{ADOPT: Modified Adam Can Converge with Any \$beta\_2\$ with the Optimal Rate}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93408}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_microadam_72324, title = {{MicroAdam: Accurate Adaptive Optimization with Low Space Overhead and Provable Convergence}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95023}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_hvadam_9397, title = {{HVAdam: A Full-Dimension Adaptive Optimizer}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34421}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_lion_34842, title = {{Lion Secretly Solves a Constrained Optimization: As Lyapunov Predicts}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18232}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_studying_45274, title = {{Studying K-FAC Heuristics by Viewing Adam through a Second-Order Lens}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33178}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_mada_45576, title = {{MADA: Meta-Adaptive Optimizers Through Hyper-Gradient Descent}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/32876}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_can_45684, title = {{Can We Remove the Square-Root in Adaptive Gradient Methods? A Second-Order Perspective}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/32768}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_a_46525, title = {{A Comprehensive Framework for Analyzing the Convergence of Adam: Bridging the Gap with SGD}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46043}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_bso_47509, title = {{BSO: Binary Spiking Online Optimization Algorithm}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45087}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_understanding_49645, title = {{Understanding Dynamics of Adam in Zero-Sum Games: An ODE Approach}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=4MVVscCjYu}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_adaptive_52070, title = {{Adaptive Preconditioners Trigger Loss Spikes in Adam}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=STWQoscanw}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_decoupling_53014, title = {{Decoupling Variance and Scale-Invariant Updates in Adaptive Gradient Descent for Unified Vector and Matrix Optimization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=bCxkeiNGxZ}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_towards_54983, title = {{Towards Understanding Adam Convergence on Highly Degenerate Polynomials}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=uYWVGk1Qt0}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_delving_55302, title = {{Delving into Muon and Beyond: Deep Analysis and Extensions}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=xUQ0Gw11NL}, }