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Learning rate schedules: what warmup and cosine decay each buy you.

Too high and the loss diverges to NaN, too low and it stalls. Warmup ramps up to survive the early steps, decay anneals down to settle. What each fixes.

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Too high and the loss diverges to NaN, too low and it stalls. Warmup ramps up to survive the early steps, decay anneals down to settle. What each fixes.

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