Adam Optimizer

Adam, short for Adaptive Moment Estimation, is the adaptive optimization algorithm introduced by Kingma and Ba in 2014 that has become the default optimizer for deep learning including LLM pretraining and fine-tuning. Adam maintains per-parameter running averages of both the first moment (gradient mean) and the second moment (gradient variance), using these to dynamically adjust each parameter's effective learning rate. The algorithm combines the benefits of momentum (smoothing gradient updates over time) and RMSProp (per-parameter learning rate scaling), producing fast and stable convergence across diverse model architectures and tasks. Standard hyperparameters are beta_1=0.9, beta_2=0.999, and epsilon=1e-8, which work well for most deep learning workloads without tuning. Adam's variant AdamW decouples weight decay from gradient updates and has largely replaced vanilla Adam in modern LLM training. Adam's main drawback is memory cost — it requires two extra state tensors per trainable parameter, contributing significantly to fine-tuning memory budgets. AI governance teams document optimizer choice in their training lineage.

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